20 Years of CFSC

Amanda Solomon Amorao serves as an assistant teaching professor and the director of the Dimensions of Culture Program at the University of California San Diego's Thurgood Marshall College. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in literature from UC San Diego, and her research and teaching interests include U.S. multiethnic literature, Asian American studies, Filipino/a/x American cultural productions, critical race studies, decolonizing pedagogies, and women of color feminism.

Joy Sales is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. She studies social movements, migration, labor, race, and diaspora, specifically the history of radical activism in the Filipino American community, including the movement against dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and the leadership of Filipinos in the United Farm Workers. Her manuscript is tentatively called, We Are Revolution: Empire, Diaspora, and Transnational Filipino/a Activism.

Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (she/her) is a Professor Emerita of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and is one of only a small handful of Filipinas who have achieved the rank of Full Professor at a major research university in the entire country. Furthermore, she was the first Pinay to serve as chair in the Asian American Studies’ department’s 50-year history. She is also the Founding Director of the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, the first of its kind in the University of California system and nationally focused on the Filipinx experience in the United States.