Filipino activist David Della and Representative Velma Veloria at the State Capitol on Lobby Day, 1999. Veloria was the first Filipino American and the first Asian American woman to be elected to Washington’s State Legislature. She served from 1992 to 2004. Photo by Dean Wong, February 1999.
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