Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is also the founding director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. Rodriguez has published widely on Filipino migration and Filipino migrant transnational activism. Her most notable publication on this topic is her book, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), which won honorable mention for the Social Science Book Award by the Association for Asian American Studies in 2012. She is also a long-time Filipino im/migrant rights activist.
Armand Gutierrez
is a Ford Foundation Fellow and Doctoral Candidate at UC San Diego. His work focuses on the transnational practices of Mexican and Filipino Americans using both quantitative and qualitative methodology. He has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies and Global Networks. His works have received awards throughout the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) and American Sociological Association (ASA). His latest work, “The Determinants of Remittances among Second-Generation Mexican- and Filipino-Americans,” was accepted for publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and awarded the PSA Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award and the Latino/a Sociology Section’s Cristina Maria Riegos Distinguished Student Paper Award.
Joy Sales
is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Program in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She received a Ph.D. in History at Northwestern University and a B.A. in History and German at Grinnell College. Her research interests include social movements, Filipino American studies, U.S. empire, diaspora, and oral history. She was also founding chairperson of GABRIELA-Chicago, a grassroots organization dedicated to the liberation of Filipino women.
Mark John Sanchez
is currently a Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. in History and Asian American Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His manuscript project, “Let the People Speak: Solidarity Culture and the Making of a Transnational Opposition to the Marcos Dictatorship, 1972-1986,” traces the foundations of the international opposition to the
Ryan Leano
graduated in 2005 from San Francisco State University, where he earned his Master’s degree in Asian American Studies. In 2014, he earned his doctorate in International & Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. Since 2006, he has been an active community organizer with the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns, addressing social issues concerning Filipinos in the U.S. and the Philippines. Leano has taught Ethnic Studies at various colleges and universities since 2007, and currently teaches Asian American Studies at California State University Fullerton. His research interests include Filipino Studies, transnational social movements, cultural work, and social justice.
Karen Buenavista Hanna
is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College. Her writing about transnational feminism, Filipina/o social movements and activism, pedagogy, and disability has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, CUNY Forum, Hyphen Magazine, and American Quarterly.
Darlene Marie “Daya” Mortel Edouard
earned her Ph.D. in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in May 2016. She received her Master of Arts in American Studies from the same institution in December 2006 and her Bachelor of Arts from the Unviersity of Washington in American Ethnic Studies and Political Science in June 2004. Her research interests include: Filipino and Filipino American studies, social movements, and visual culture.
L. Joyce Zapanta Mariano
earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and was a 2012-2013 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa. Mariano is working on her book manuscript, Filipino American Diaspora and the Politics of Giving, which interrogates diaspora formation through an interdisciplinary examination of Filipino Americans “giving back” – through
Michael Schulze-Oechtering
received his Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently an assistant professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Western Washington University. His research and teaching interests include critical ethnic studies, anti-racist and transnational social movements, Asian American/Native Pacific diasporas, and racial capitalism. He is completing his book manuscript, No Separate Peace: Multiracial Struggles Against Racial Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest, which examines the overlapping labor histories and radical traditions of Filipino cannery workers in Alaska and Black construction workers in Seattle between the 1970s and the early 2000s.
Wayne Jopanda
was raised in Hayward, California and is currently a doctoral student in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is also the Associate Director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. His research examines Filipinx labor trafficking, forced migration policies, and how trafficking survivors utilize community organizing as a process of transnational healing and empowerment. Having served as chairperson of MIGRANTE Washington, D.C., and grounded by his family’s sacrifices and love, Jopanda hopes to continue working to improve migrant labor rights and building towards a better understanding of labor trafficking, forced labor migration, healing, and the diaspora.