President

Rachelle Peraz Ocampo, EdM is the current President of the NYS Chapter of National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA-NY). She currently leads public health initiatives through communications and advocacy, at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center. She is also a Producer and Lead Co-Host for Makilala TV, the first and now longest-running Filipino American TV Talk Show in the NY metro area. Her other roles in the Filipino community include being one of the founders of Raised Pinay, a FYLPRO alum, and board of trustee of UniPro. She is also a mommy to 4 year old Alexander and 2 year old Adelina.

Vice Chair

Stevenson Van Derodar, a Physical Therapy and Real Estate professional joined NaFFAA-NY as Executive Director in 2018 and has served as Vice-Chair thereafter, continuing on his role for the current term. 

Stevenson is passionately involved in the young active citizens' movement, Junior Chamber International serving as the State President to both JCI New York (2018) and New Jersey (2020-2021), where he recently earned his JCI Senatorship. He is a contributor writer to Philippine Daily Mirror where he writes real estate commentaries via Property Talk. He is an alumnus of Project REAP NYC 2016, a program in Commercial Real Estate. Stevenson founded Phil House Hunters after having worked as an International Property Specialist to markets in Asia, Europe, and North America with Ayala Land, Federal Land, and Century Properties. His penchant for community service started earlier on in college and was recognized as Ayala Young Leader in 2001, The Outstanding Cebuano Young Leader in 2003 - Office of the Mayor of the Cebu City Government, Dugong Kabataan Sugbu-anon (Young Blood Awards) in the Archdiocese of Cebu in 2000, among others.

Treasurer

Alyssa Trinidad is the Treasurer for NaFFAA New York. She is currently a Supervising Bank Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York within the Supervision Group. A licensed Certified Public Accountant, Alyssa previously worked in the Audit function at Deloitte in Boston. She also completed independent research on economic development at Ateneo Graduate School of Business in Manila as a Fulbright Scholar. She holds degrees in Business, Accounting, and Public Policy from UMass Boston, Boston College, and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government respectively. She also serves on the Board of the International Society of Filipinos in Finance and Accounting (ISFFA) as the Executive Vice President. 

Kathleen (Kat) Arcangeles is the Secretary for NaFFAA New York. She has been an active volunteer for NaFFAA since 2022. She holds a degree in Psychology from Queens College, where she graduated summa cum laude and was a recipient of the Wilbur E. Gilman Scholarship. Kathleen has previously worked at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute and the Queens College School of Business. Additionally, she has served as a student delegate for the academic senate at Queens College and was the treasurer and then president for Asian Students in Action, an organization that creates safe spaces for Asian-American communities on campus. Born and raised in Metro Manila, Kathleen is eager to make connections in the diaspora through NaFFAA New York.

Director of Public Policy

Clifford Robin Temprosa is the Director of Public Policy of the NYS Chapter. Born in the Philippines with a Filipino and Fujianese background, Clifford specializes in developing strategies to build social and political power for AAPI communities on local and national levels, and advance transformative public policy by educating, mobilizing, and empowering AAPI communities to be involved in public participation and democracy by mentorship, building the AAPI electorate, running for office, building community power, launching and advising nonprofits, attain public funding, and driving social impact.

He most recently worked at the New York State Legislature where he became a leading AAPI operative, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families where he oversaw a campaign over 100 organizations to secure over $60 Million in investments for Asian nonprofits, and has managed political and public policy campaigns executing peak budgets of over half a million dollars. Clifford recently launched his consulting firm, Dare to Change, Inc which specializes in driving social impact and transformative justice through an AAPI lens in the private and public sectors through grant writing, digital strategy, research and data, data driven storytelling, nonprofit strategy, and political and policy campaign strategy. His firm launched with the spearheading of a national AAPI democracy project focused on engaging Millennial and Generation Z Asian American voters. He is deeply committed to building political power, amplifying social justice, and cultivating a movement of an unapologetically engaged and united AAPI Diaspora rooted in power by bridging AAPI communities into a collective voice that is ready to take action. 

Clifford sits on the board of OCA New York, the Youth Advisory Board of Young Invincibles, is a brother of Delta Epsilon Psi National South Asian Fraternity, Inc and a Knight of Rizal. Clifford has received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award, awarded Change Agent of the Year amongst the National APIDA Panhellenic Council, and has been featured as a 2023 New York Power Player Rising and 2024 AAPI Power Player in PoliticsNY.

Director of Digital Engagement

Sabrina Tesalona is the Director of Digital Engagement of the NYS Chapter of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA-NY). As a Program Associate at Ogilvy, a global advertising, marketing, and PR agency, she delivered dynamic campaigns and supported the integrated Nestle client portfolio. In 2022, she received a BS in Business Administration, concentrating in Marketing and MIS at Boston University, where she interned at Oracle through their Marketing Program and volunteered in the Summer Interns’ D&I Project. She also participated in BU’s Guerilla Marketing Society as a Marketing Strategy Consultant. As an active member in her Boston Filipino community, Sabrina served for three years on FIND,inc.'s District One as Community Chair, PR Officer, and, eventually, Co-Chair. 

Director of Events

Angelo Salsa Cruz is the Director of Events and is an accomplished Independent Audio Recording Engineer and Sound Designer with over seven years of experience, specializing in genres such as Hip Hop, R&B, Indie, Electronic Dance Music, Reggaeton, and Afro-Beats. His work has earned significant recognition, with several songs reaching hundreds of thousands of listens and one surpassing a million. He has contributed to the Fil-Am Arts FPAC festival in Los Angeles, working with Giselle Tongi to manage artist relations and audio setups. Previously, Angelo interned at the Los Angeles Times/Emerging US, transcripting and location scouting for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. His education includes Music Production, Live Sound, and Audio/Recording Engineering at Pyramind Studios, and Music Tech at Foothill College.