Xenia Tupas made Los Angeles her home since 2005, working on retail and health care while continuing her advocacy on human rights and land rights in the Philippines. While in LA, she published “The Unfinished Business: Land Reform in the Sugarlands” which documented her first-hand experiences on land reform implementation in her home province of Negros Occidental. In 2018, she was recognized by Task Force Detainees of the Philippines for her 20 year service in the promotion and defense of human rights for all. She returned to journalism in 2022 as freelance writer for the online newspaper Rappler Philippines and the LA-based Philippine Post. She is active in the community as vice president for public relations of both the Asian American Press Club of the US and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Metropolitan Los Angeles and volunteer of the Feed My Poor, a non-profit based at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills which conducts daily feeding through its food truck, of the unhoused in the westside and downtown LA.