Charity Bagatsing is a Publishing Diva, Media Vixen, Event Goddess, Networking Maven, and kick-butt PR Consultant.

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She serves as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Family Guide (2001–present) and is the founder of Spokane’s Asian Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Day and The Family Fun Fair, a signature community event drawing more than 35,000 attendees annually. Her expertise as an event organizer and speaker for seminars, corporate events, and trade shows is highly sought after throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho. She also serves as President of the Filipino American National Historical Society – Spokane Chapter.

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In 2021, Charity was awarded the prestigious title of Master Artist / Culture Keeper by the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions. A 13th-generation Culture Keeper from the Ifugao Tribe, she follows in the footsteps of her ancestors as a baki—a cultural leader deeply versed in Ifugao customs, traditions, and oral history. She traces her kadangyan lineage back twelve generations. Her primary source of knowledge comes from her great-grandfather Henry Otley Beyer’s library collection, and she is the copyright holder of the Philippine Ethnographic Series (The H. Otley Beyer Manuscript Collection).

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​In March 2025, she was named Spokane’s YWCA Woman of Achievement in Arts & Culture. An accomplished writer, researcher, and author, her work has been published internationally in magazines, newspapers, blogs, and academic journals, including KSPS Public Television (The Spanish Galleon Ships), Filipinas Magazine, The Philippine Express Newspaper, The Philippine Journal of Science, and The Penguin Book of Mermaids, published by the University of Hawaiʻi.

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Charity believes that everyone has a story to tell—and her gift as a storyteller is bringing those stories to the world.

 

Charity Bagatsing’s Beyer Library Collection

Beyer was the pioneer of anthropology in the Philippines and also made major contributions in the fields of folklore, customary law, archaeology, art and geology. Among his many publications were the Philippine ethnographic series (141 vols, 1912–22), Philippine tektites (1933–34) and Philippine folktales, beliefs, popular customs and traditions (3 vols, 1941–43).

 

At the core of the Otley Beyer Collection are 195 volumes of typescripts compiled by Beyer and his associates, mostly in the period 1912–30, on the ethnography of the Philippines. They provide a valuable record of Philippine life in the early twentieth century, before US influences became pervasive. The most substantial series are Bisaya ethnography, the Ifugao people, Ilokos ethnography, Moro ethnography, Philippine customary law and Tagalog ethnography. There are also volumes on archaeological surveys in Rizal Province and Philippine tektites.