About Us

who we are

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


AAOP Ignite Minnesota Asian Power grant

Past Grants:

Asian American Organizing project (2017-2020)

Ramsey county (2020)

Contact info

Follow us

Minneapolis, MN

filipinxmn@gmail.com