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Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein

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Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein was born in the Philippines. She left for the US shortly after finishing her bachelor's degree to work as a member of an international team for a research project on the role of women as portrayed in the media across five countries. She holds graduate degrees in communication and political science. She has worked for public television, the East-West Center, and the Smithsonian Institute. She consults on the applications, policy, and impact of communication technologies in society and strategic communications for international and nonprofit organizations. She also writes regularly on social giving and crowdfunding and international development. She is married and has two children. She describes herself as an avid trave ...more

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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk: A Novel of Chinese Immigration to the Pacific Northwest (Inspired by True Events)

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Looking Back (Looking Back Series Book 1)

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“It had become common knowledge in those days that the Marcoses used the country's treasury as if it was their own personal bank account.”
― Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein, A Thousand Little Deaths: Growing Up Under Martial Law in the Philippines

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“As for Imelda, her vanity and hunger for material things were insatiable. She lived in splendor while the poor masses were left living under bridges and scavenging the Smokey Mountain garbage dump for food and scrap to sell.”
― Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein, A Thousand Little Deaths: Growing Up Under Martial Law in the Philippines

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“To me, there was no such thing as 'staying neutral,' especially when blood had already been spilled. The stakes were simply too high. To keep neutral was to stay asleep, to sleepwalk through life, and that was unacceptable.”
― Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein, A Thousand Little Deaths: Growing Up Under Martial Law in the Philippines

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