• Featured

    Do art. Be kind.

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    A young Salinas resident recounts her journey through the mental health system

    Posted in Education by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    California lawmakers may limit childhood sex abuse survivors’ ability to sue

    Posted in Features by Sara Tiano
  • Featured

    King City boy wants to become the future of music in Monterey County

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Salinas officials are poised to cross the church-state divide

    Posted in Features by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    The Souls of Potter’s Field

    Posted in Features by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Here’s what the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ means for the Central Coast

    Posted in Features by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    BREAKING: Monterey County jail gets big money for helping ICE find targets

    Posted in Features by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Pedacitos: Stories in the path of healing

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    In defense of immigrants

    Posted in Agriculture by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Celebrating the end to an injustice

    Posted in Agriculture by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Students talk about security in social media and how it might be improved

    Posted in Criminal Justice by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    ‘Patients will suffer. Patients will die.’ Why California’s rural hospitals are flatlining.

    Posted in Features by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    A fight for justice

    Posted in Agriculture by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Sacred Rage & Rhymes

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    State watchdog to investigate why Monterey County ignored transparency rules and paid for slander defense

    Posted in Criminal Justice by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Building bridges, not walls

    Posted in Features by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Travels with Corbett | Episode 2 of ELDERS

    Posted in Features by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    New Salinas City Council takes aim at recently approved Rental Stabilization Ordinance

    Posted in Economy/Business by Jean Vengua
  • Featured

    Honoring Humanity

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Jean Vengua
Menu

Navigation

  • Home
  • Voces en español
  • Donate
  • Sign up for our free newsletter
  • Young Voices Media Project
  • Opinion
  • Gray Area Podcast
  • The Youth Beat
  • About Us
    • Advisory Board
    • Our Awards
    • VOMB Announcements
    • VOMB’s Secret Newsletter Archives
    • Send a letter to the editor
  • Monterey Rocks
  • The VOMB Shop

Connect

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

SEARCH

Archives

About Jean Vengua

Jean Vengua is a Filipinx American visual artist and writer, author of Marcelina (Paloma Press 2020), Prau (Meritage Press), The Aching Vicinities (chapbook, Otoliths Press), and Corporeal (Black Radish Books). In the mid-1990s, with Elizabeth H. Pisares, she formed Tulitos Press and published and edited the Debut: The Making of a Filipino American Film by Gene Cajayon and John Manal Castro, and The Flipside by Rod Pulido. Her chapbook, The Epic of Waiting, is forthcoming from Boukra Press. Vengua is staff writer for the nonprofit Asian Cultural Experience (ACE) in Salinas Chinatown. Her newsletter, Eulipion Outpost is at jeanvengua.substack.com.

May 24, 2023

Six Questions for Mai Ryuno

October 30, 2022

Inspirado en la herencia El artista mexicano Víctor-Mario Zaballa tiene una residencia en el Museo de Arte de Monterey  

October 28, 2022

Drawing from the Heritage Victor-Mario Zaballa is an artist in residence at Monterey Museum of Art

May 2, 2019

Stories of Chinatown Old newspaper opens portal to a different era

Copyright © 2017-2024 Voices of Monterey Bay | ABOUT US | SIGN UP | DONATE