Cass Guinto

Cass Guinto is a poet, journalist, and community organizer from north Jersey. After graduating from Bergen Community College in 2022, they completed their B.A. in English at Rutgers–Newark in 2025. As a queer Filipina/x American raised in a single parent immigrant household, their work embraces the arts as a space to explore, celebrate, and revolutionize identity. Whether it's large-scale event planning or editorial writing, they weave queerness, language, and culture into everything they do.

Publications:

• Unveiling Gold House's A100 List: 2025's Top API Creatives and Innovators – https://www.envimedia.co/unveiling-gold-houses-a100-list-2025s-top-api-creatives-and-innovators/

• Senior Confronts Family History of Domestic Violence in Documentary – https://sasn.rutgers.edu/news/senior-confronts-family-history-domestic-violence-documentary

• Neena Roe on Identity, “How To Be Alone,” and Setting Her Sound Free – https://www.envimedia.co/neena-roe-on-identity-how-to-be-alone-and-setting-her-sound-free/

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• Represented FIND, Inc. at the 2024 Filipino Youth Dialogue, an online event organized by Filipino youth and student organizations across the United States.

Previous Organizations: 

• EnVi Media Co.

• Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue, Incorporated (FIND, Inc.)

• Apex For Youth

Accomplishments:

• Served as FIND, Inc. National Chairperson from 2024–25, representing 59 active Filipino student organizations across the East Coast.

• Placed first at Hunter College's inaugural Mx. Asia pageant in May 2024 by illuminating the struggles of low-income Asian American youth.

• Organized "MX," an intercollegiate pageant for LGBTQ+ students in the New York metropolitan area; raised over $3,000 across various LGBTQ+ foundations and mutual aids.

Upcoming Projects:

• Completing a fully-funded Master of Arts at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (CUNY) by 2026.

"You write in order to change the world... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."  –James Baldwin