Erin Jerri Malonzo Pangilinan graduated with a BA from UC Berkeley as an Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies double major with honors and is an active member of the Berkeley Asian American Pacific Islander Alumni Association. She continues to write as a news correspondent for Philippine News for five years, and has published news and poetry in Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women's Poetry, {m}aganda magazine, and hardboiled asian american newsmagazine.