Filipinx for Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice Minnesota (FIRM) is a non-profit and non-partisan organization founded in 2016 by a group of Filipinx community leaders in response to the rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric and bigotry against marginalized communities.
The Filipinx community is the fourth largest immigrant group in the USA. In Minnesota, there are 20,000 Filipinx that makes up 6.3% of the Asian American Pacific Islander community. FIRM will be a collective voice of the Filipinx diaspora in Minnesota to speak out for open and fair immigration policies that provide a pathway to a better life for all and to oppose immigration policies that violate human dignity, separate families, and force communities to live in the shadows where they are easily exploited or discarded.
Our People
Coco McKeown
Greg King
Maia King
Marlina Gonzalez
MaryAnne Quiroz
Meg Layese
MJ Carpio
Nico Van Ostrand
Toni Guerts
Victoria-Jo (Tori) Gapuz
Our Partners
Our Funders
Active grants:
Reclaim the Block and Black Visions Collective partnership grant