MA student Ashley Dequilla to lecture on “The Road to a Coalition for Philippine Ancestral Repatriation” at SOAS in London
Introduction
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Ashley Dequilla (b. 1987) is an artist-filmmaker and archivist of Negrense, Tagalog and Ilonggo descent. She holds an MFA in Moving Image (‘23) and is completing her MA in Art History (‘25) from the University of Illinois Chicago. She is a Co-Curator Partner and researcher of the Philippine Heritage Collection at the Field Museum of Natural History. Ashley is the de facto archivist and collection manager for the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, securing the National Film Preservation Foundation award in 2024 and 2025 for 16mm home movies by Nicholas Galutera Viernes (1902-1991), the earliest Filipino documentarian in American cinema history.
Modified on September 18, 2025