Meet Genevieve Mina, Alaska’s second Filipino legislator. Mina represents Anchorage's Airport Heights, Mountain View and Russian Jack neighborhoods.
Rep. Genevieve Mina is sworn-in as the second Filipino legislator since Thelma Buchholdt in almost 50 years.
“There are so many people that I grew up with, that I went to school with, who have family in these neighborhoods who I would come over to hang out and watch TV, or have sleepovers, or do Dungeons and Dragons, or have tea parties,” she said. Her mother, a nurse from Iloilo City in the Visayas region, was the first in her family to go to college.
“I was in the Capitol for the first time, being an intern. And I was just like, you know what, I wonder if there’s ever been a Filipino elected to the Alaska State Legislature?” she reflected. “And I looked it up, and I learned about Thelma Buchholdt.” Even after leaving office, Buchholdt continued her mission for civil rights. She founded the Alaska chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society, , and served 30 years on the Alaska State Advisory Committee for the Commission on Civil Rights.
Rep. Genevieve Mina poses in her new office with a photo of former Rep. Thelma Buchholdt in January 2023. The photo was gifted to her by Christine Marasigan, a former legislative staffer who has mentored Mina around being a Filipina in politics.
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