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Alan Jung

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Emeritus
Finance, College of Business

Phone Number:
(415) 338-1212
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At SF State Since:

1990

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Russell M Jeung PhD

Russell Jeung

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Professor
Asian-American Studies. College of Ethnic Studies

Phone Number:
(415) 338-3891
Location:
EP 103

At SF State Since:

2002

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 12:00-13:00
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

Dr. Russell Jeung received a BA in Human Biology and a MA in Education from Stanford University. After working in China and in the Mayor's Office of San Francisco, he obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. After teaching at Foothill College for two years, he came to San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department in 2002.

 

Dr. Jeung is author of

In addition, he has co-produced with Valerie Soe the documentary, The Oak Park Story (2010), about a landmark housing lawsuit involving his fellow Cambodian and Latino tenants.

 

His research interests include the Sociology of Race, the Sociology of Religion, and Social Movements. Dr. Jeung is extensively engaged with his students in conducting community-based, participatory research with Asian American communities.

 

In 2020, Dr. Jeung launched Stop AAPI Hate, a project of Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, and SF State Asian American Studies. It tracks Covid-19 related discrimination in order to develop community resources and policy interventions to fight racism.

Courses Taught

Professor Russell Jeung teaches the following courses in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University:

  • Contemporary Asian Americans (AAS 211)
  • Chinese American Identities (AAS 323)
  • Asian Americans and Environmental Justice (AAS 587)
  • Asian Americans and Public Policy (AAS 595; AAS 865)
  • Asian American Community Changes and Development (AAS 681)
  • Critical Approaches to Asian American Studies (AAS 710)

Publications

Books

At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus Among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Press, 2016.

Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation. Edited with Carolyn Chen, New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches, New Brunswick, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

 

Film Documentary

The Oak Park Story. Produced with Valerie Soe, San Francisco, CA 2010.

 

Articles

"Dancing with a Ghost: A Cambodian Exorcism in Oakland,"

Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 5 No. 4, Winter 2015; (pp. 64-71).

"Secularization and Asian Americans"

In Asian American Religious Cultures, edited by Jonathan Lee, Jane Iwamura, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, and Ron Nakasone, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio Press, 2015, 136-144.

"Chinese American Religions"

Written with Lisa Mar. In Asian American Religious Cultures, edited by Jonathan Lee, Jane Iwamura, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, and Ron Nakasone, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio Press, 2015, 290-295.

"Redefining Religious Nones: Lessons from Chinese and Japanese American Young Adults"

Co-written with Brett Esaki and Alice Liu, Religions 2015, 6(3), 891-911.

"The Globalization and Racialization of Asian American Churches"

Common Ground Journal, 2015, 12 (1), 31-38.

"Hakka Diasporic Tales: Exilic Understandings of Shalom in California"

Cultural Encounters, 2014, 10 (2), 106-114.

“Asian Americans in Multiethnic Ministry”

Co-written with Kathleen Garces Foley. Religions. 2013, 4(2), 190-208.

“Keeping the Traditions: A Comparison of Cantonese-Mandarin-Speaking Chinese American Immigrants.”

International Symposium on “International Migration and Qiaoxiang Studies“ Conference Proceedings. Vol. 1. Jiangmen, PRC: Guangdong Qiaoxiang Cultural Research Center, Wuyi University. 315-335.

“Introduction: Racial, and Ethnic Identities of the New Second Generation”

“Second-Generation Chinese Americans and the Familism of the Nonreligious”

In Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation. Edited with Carolyn Chen, New York: New York University Press, 2012.

“Asian Americans, Religion and the 2008 Election” (with Soyoung Kim)

In Religion, Race, and Barack Obama’s New Democratic Pluralism.  Gaston Espinosa. Routledge Press. 2012.

"Faith-Based Multiethnic Tenant Organizing: The Oak Park Story" (reprint)

In Readings of Diversity and Justice. Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather Hackman, Madeline L Peters, Ximena Zuniga, eds., New York: Routledge Press,  2012.

 “Asian American Religions and Identity”

In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues, edited by Edith Chen and Grace Yoo, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2010.

“Asian American Studies Tours as Pilgrimages of Memory.”

In At 40: Asian American Studies @ San Francisco State. Ed. Jeffery Paul Chan, et al. San Francisco: AAS Department, San Francisco State University. 2009:121-123.

“To Serve the Community: The Fourth Decade of Community Service Learning at Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University.”

In At 40: Asian American Studies @ San Francisco State. Ed. Jeffery Paul Chan, et al. San Francisco: AAS Department, San Francisco State University. 2009:157-162.

“The Use of Religious Repertoires in Asian America.”(with Marian Wang).

In At 40: Asian American Studies @ San Francisco State. Ed. Jeffery Paul Chan, et al. San Francisco: AAS Department, San Francisco State University. 2009:199-204.

“Chinese American Demographic Change in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1990-2000.” (With Dean Adachi.)

In The 2008 Report: The Bay Area Chinese Churches Project. Castro Valley, CA: Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity.

 “Guilds, Unions, and Garment Factories: Notes on Chinese in the Apparel Industry.” (With Him Mark Lai).

Labor and San Francisco’s Garment Industry.  Spec. issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives  2008:1-10.

“The Loss of the Garment Industry Is Part of a Cycle: An Interview with Fei Yi Chen, Community Organizer for the Chinese Progressive Association.” Tr. Wai Sum Leung, Cheuk Lap Lo, and Aaron Ng.

Labor and San Francisco’s Garment Industry. Spec. issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2008: 65-66.

“The Only Thing I Could Do Was Sew: An Interview with Li Qin Zhou.” Tr. Wai Sum Leung and Cheuk Lap Lo.

Labor and San Francisco’s Garment Industry. Spec. issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2008: 61-62.

 “The Oak Park Story: Organizing a Faith-based, Multi-ethnic Community”

In Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 

Asian American Religious Leadership Today: A Preliminary Inquiry

Co-written report for the Pulpit and Pew Project, Duke University. July 2005.

“Creating an Asian American Christian Subculture: Grace Community Covenant Church”

In Asian American Religions: the Making and Unmaking of Borders and Boundaries. Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang, eds. 2004. New York: NYU Press.

“Gung Ho: Community Building and Asian American Christians”

In The Cresset: A Review of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs 2003. Valparaiso, IN: Valpairaiso University Press.

“New Asian American Churches and Symbolic Racial Identity”

In Revealing the Sacred in Asia America: Writings on Religion. Jane Iwamura and Paul Spickard, eds. 2003. New York: Routledge Press.

 “Comparing Evangelical and Mainline Asian American Pan-Ethnic Congregations”

In Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim, eds. 2002.Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

“Southeast Asians In the House: Multiple Layers of Identity”

In Intersections and Divergences: Contemporary Asian Pacific American Communities. Linda Vo and Rick Bonus, eds. 2002.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Community Based Participatory Research

Professor Jeung has conducted extensive community-based, participatory research with his students. These projects include

  • Mongolian Needs Assessment (Community Health for Asian Americans, 2014)
  • Himalayan Women's Health Needs (Community Health for Asian Americans, 2014)
  • Bayview Hunter's Point Needs Assessment (Community Youth Center, 2012-2014)
  • Barriers v. Bridges: Needs and Aspirations of Bhutanese Refugees in Northern California (Bhutanese Community of California, 2012)
  • Single Room Occupancy Workers and Wage Theft (Chinese Progressive Association, 2012)
  • From Crisis to Community Development: Needs and Assets of Oakland's Refugees from Burma (Burma Refugee Family Network, 2011)
  • Chinese Community Health Fair (NICOS Health Coalition, 2011)
  • Chinese American Displaced Manufacturing Workers (Chinese Progressive Association, 2011)
  • Impact of Education Budget Cuts and Early Start (California Faculty Assocation, 2011)
  • API Connections Wellness Survey (API Connections, 2010)
  • English Center Survey (English Center, 2010)

Media

Asian American Issues

  1. "After 50 years, Asian American Studies programs still hard to find," Anges Constante, NBC Asian America, June 27, 2019.
  2. "My Menu for Lunar New Year Guilt," Kat Chow, NPR, January 27, 2017
  3. "Pacific Grove’s historic Chinese fishing village finally commemorated on Rec Trail," Alexandra Vedemsky, Monterey County Weekly, September 25, 2014.
  4. "Monterey Peninsula's historic Chinese fishing village celebrated," Tom Leyde, San Jose Mercury, September 20, 2014.
  5. "With Joint Celebration on Horizon, Feelings Mixed On Black/Asian Relations in SF," Jessica Kwong, San Francisco Examiner, February 7, 2014.
  6. "Bay Area Reaction to Obama Victory," NBC Bay Area, November 7, 2012
  7. “Despite Family Expectations, APIS are Carving New Career Paths,” Atia Musazay, International Examiner, September 6, 2012
  8. “How Ethnicity, Religion shape Asian American vote?” Zee Media, August 31, 2012
  9. “Ethnic Stereotypes and the Oikos Shooting” Leslie Rojas, Southern California Public Radio, April 10, 2012
  10. “An American-born realizes his dream; American-born Chinese share his feelings. Jeremy is a good model for all Chinese immigrants.” Singtao Newspaper, February 26, 2012
  11. “Breaking Stereotypes: Images of Chinese Americans Changing,” Singtao Newspaper, February 26, 2012
  12. “Subtle Racism Felt on S.F. State’s Diverse Campus,” Christine Joy Ferrer, Golden Gate Xpress, May 10, 2007
  13. “Behind the Asian American Split Vote on Prop 8” Russell Jeung, Asian Week, November 28, 2008
  14. “Oakland Tenants Win Settlement,” Adelaide Chen, Asian Week, September 28, 2007

Refugees

  1. "PCSC tutors and bonds with Burmese refugees," Hunter Disco, Piedmont Highlander, May 16, 2019
  2. "Bay Area Lawmakers, Advocates Urge Pardon for Southeast Asian Refugees Facing Deportation," Hope McKenney, KQED, October 12, 2018
  3. "Bhutanese Celebrate Festival as they Assess Ongoing Challenges," Matt O'Brien, Oakland Tribune, October 13, 2012.
  4. “Poverty Stricken: A New Report Shows that Oakland’s Refugees from Burma are Stuck in Extreme poverty,” Momo Chang, East Bay Express, January 4, 2012
  5. BBC Burmese Programme, December 13, 2011
  6. “Burmese Refugees Struggling in the East Bay,” Matt O’Brien, Contra Costa Times, December 12, 2011
  7. “Myanmar Refugees Flock to East Oakland,” Margie Shafer, KCBS Radio, December 7, 2011
  8. “Make Education Available for Oakland’s Burmese Refugees,” Su Su Muang, Oakland North, December 7, 2011
  9. “Language Limits Jobs, health care for new Burmese refugees,” Bernice Yeung, California Watch, December 5, 2011
  10. “Burmese Refugees in Oakland Living in Extreme poverty,” Vigi Sundaram, New American Media, December 2, 2011
  11. “For Refugees from Burma, hope of better life in US turns into extreme poverty, isolation,” Medical Express, November 28, 2011
  12. “Oakland’s Burmese:  A study on Lives in Transition,” El Boletin, May 26, 2011
  13. “Buddhist Temples Find Uneasy Home in Indiana,” Christopher Maag, New York Times, April 22, 2007

Work at SFSU and with Students in Asian American Community

  1. "Asian American Studies Department Celebrates Its 50th Aniversary with Gala," Ivan Natividad, SFSU Communications, April 16, 2019
  2. "Asian American Studies Hosts Commemoration for Third World Liberation Front", Joseph High, Golden Gate Express, February 21, 2019
  3. “Hunters Point Celebrates African American Heritage Month and Lunar New Year,” February 19, 2012
  4. “What was your SF State “aha” moment?” SF State Magazine, Fall/Winter 2011
  5. “Crossing paths with S. F. History,” Jessica Kwong, San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2011
  6. “Students reach out to Burmese refugees,” Daniah Khalil, Golden Gate Xpress, May 6, 2009
  7. “Colleges offer affordable entertainment and good access into the arts,” San Francisco Examiner, April 13, 2010

Asian American Religious Studies

  1. "What the Bible Teaches Us About Climate Migration,"Russell Jeung, Sojourners, October 9,  2019
  2. "Family Separation Has Long Been an American Government Policy: Six Generations of Our Chinese American Family Know Firsthand," Matthew and Russell Jeung, Evangelicals for Social Action, August 22, 2019.
  3. "Caring for Refugees and Immigrants as a Focus on the Family", Russell Jeung, Evangelicals for Social Action, May 17, 2019.
  4. One on One with Russell Jeung," Ed Stetzer, Christianity Today, February 27, 2019
  5. "Rethinking Religious Nones: The Case of Chinese Americans," Melissa Borjas, Patheos, February 7, 2019
  6. "American Evangelicals are more diverse than ever," Grace Hwang Lynch, PRI, July 19, 2018
  7. "Trump's Anti Family Approach to Immigration," Russell Jeung, Sojourners, March 5, 2018
  8. "Hollywood Dreams and Orientalized Images: Reappropriated our Racialized Status as Outsiders," Russell Jeung, Inheritance, May 5, 2018
  9. "Christians of Color are rejecting "Colonial Christianity," Deborah Jian Lee, Religion Dispatches, January 27, 2018.
  10. "Unauthorized Walls: Asian American Christian Undocumented Residents Overcoming Barriers," Evangelicals for Social Action, August 10, 2017
  11. "What the Homelessness Crisis in Asian American Communities Reveals About Ourselves," Russell Jeung, Sojourners, June 15, 2017
  12. "Uprooted Again: Internally Displaced Refugees in the US", Russell Jeung, Evanglicals for Social Action, April 20, 2017.
  13. "American Christian Witness Damaged by Trump's Proposed Discriminatory Travel Check," Russell Jeung, Inheritance, March 23, 2017
  14. "In Many Asian American Communities, the Trump Ban Follows History of Persecution," Russell Jeung, Sojourners, February 3, 2017
  15. "Stewardship: Being Faithful Wherever God Calls Us," Russell Jeung, Inheritance, September 6, 2016
  16. "Awoken from the Asian American Dream," Russell Jeung, Inheritance, October 1, 2016
  17. "Professor and Dr. Jeung Live Amid Homelessness and Crime," Bethany Ao, AsAmNews, August, 12, 2015
  18. "Raising a Generation of Peacemakers," Russell Jeung, Christianity Today, March 12, 2015 and March 17, 2015
  19. "Saved by My Refugee Neighbors," Russell Jeung, Christianity Today, June 17, 2013
  20. Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America,” Melvin Leung, Faultlines, Spring 2012
  21. “The New Believers: A Surprising Number of Asian Students are Drawn to the Supportive Structure of Evangelical Congregations,” Don Lattin, California, Fall 2009
  22. “Young, Asian American and Christian,” Kathleen Richards, East Bay Express, April 2, 2008
  23. “Local Chinese Residents behind their American Lives with their cultural heritage,” Monica Uribe, Waco Tribune-Herald, February 7, 2008
  24. “The Tiger in the Academy,” Tim Stafford, Christianity Today, April 1, 2006

Jeung’s Community Activism

  1. "Sex trafficking, youth jobs and buses: mayoral candidates discuss at roundtable," Alyssa Jeong Perry, Oakland North, October 22, 2014.
  2. “Christian activists show faith in gritty community,” Hillary Abramson, San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, 2010
  3. From a Liminal Place: Asian American Theology, Sang Hyun Lee, 2010
  4. “Communities in Action: In My Neighborhood,” Guideposts Magazine, August 2007
  5. The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today, Charles Marsh, 2005
Brigitte Davila

Brigitte Webjefa Davila

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Emeritus Faculty/Lecturer
Latino/Latina Studies, College of Ethnic Studies

Phone Number:
(415) 338-3390
Location:
EP 111B

At SF State Since:

1994

Office Hours:

Bio:

Davila is an outspoken advocate for accessible quality public education at the local, state and national level.  As a first generation Latina student, she benefited from access to UC Berkeley for both her B.A. degree in Rhetoric and J.D. degree in Law. She has taught U.S. government & policy classes for over 25 years in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Davila also pioneered the systemic implementation of a Community Service Learning platform across the Latina/o Studies Department institutionalizing the work of the community with the academy.  She has used her membership in the California Faculty Association to advance diversity and equity among faculty. 

While advocating in the academic arena is important, Davila furthered her efforts by lobbying in Sacramento and Washington D.C.  Further, she holds an elected citywide seat on the San Francisco City College Board.  Community Colleges have the highest numbers of students of color and are striving to deliver more equitable access to higher education. From this platform, she creates policies designed to increase graduation rates and provide more support for first-generation students.

Deborah Cohler

Deborah Cohler

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Professor
Women & Gender Studies, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Phone Number:
(415) 338-3150
Location:

At SF State Since:

2002

Office Hours:

Bio:

Deborah Cohler received her PhD in English Literature from Brown University and BA from Wesleyan University in Women’s Studies and English. She is the author of Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) as well as recent journal articles on early twentieth century eugenics, transnational feminist pedagogies, and the cultural politics of the War on Terror. Her current research examines cultural transformations of sexuality, gender, and citizenship in wartime, focusing particularly on US military culture since 2001. She is at work on a monograph that examines mass cultural and subcultural representations of military spouses in US culture at the turn of the twenty-first century. She teaches courses in WGS on gender and militarism, transnational feminist cultural studies, queer theory, and feminist praxis.

 

Websites:

Academia.edu profile, Video profile

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Laura Epstein

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Professor
Graduate College of Education

Phone Number:
(415) 405-2170
Location:
BH 115

At SF State Since:

Office Hours:

Logan Hennessy

Logan Hennessy

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Associate Professor
Liberal Studies ProgramCollege of Liberal and Creative Arts

Phone Number:
(415) 405-2677
Location:
HUM 448

At SF State Since:

2007

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: 11:00-12:00
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11:30-13:30
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

I am interested in indigenous environmental politics, the political economy of the mining and oil industries, and environmental history in the Americas.  I conduct research on these issues in Ecuador and Guyana, working closely with local communities and organizations.  These field studies also involve several partnerships with Bay Area non-profit organizations. My current work examines the collision of extractive projects in South America, forest conservation, indigenous land and protected areas, and climate change. 

I teach interdisciplinary courses on International Development and Resource Justice (LS 401), forest ecology and conservation "Future of the Forests" (LS 430), and the introdution, junior, and senior seminar courses for Liberal Studies. Occasionally in the summers, I also lead short-term study abroad versions of LS 430 involving three weeks of field study in the lowland and cloud forests of Ecuador.

I hold a Ph.D and MS  in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy, and a BA in Philosophy from Boston University.

Mary E Scott

Mary E Scott

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Emeritus Faculty
Humanities Department, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Phone Number:
Location:
HUM 532

At SF State Since:

1990

Office Hours:

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Johnny Symons

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CinemaCollege of Liberal and Creative Arts

Phone Number:
(415) 405-2841
Location:
FA 511

At SF State Since:

Office Hours:

Kimberly

Kimberly D Tanner

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Professor
BiologyCollege of Science and Engineering

Phone Number:
(415) 405-3438
Location:
HH 243

At SF State Since:

2004

Office Hours:

Bio:

My research group, SEPAL: The Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory, is interested in how people learn science, especially biology, and how teachers and scientists can collaborate to make science teaching and learning in classrooms – Kindergarten through college – more like how scientists work. Just like other science research groups, we ask questions about what we’re interested in, design ways to collect evidence to address our questions, and analyze and share the data that we collect with other researchers in our field. SEPAL researchers are studying a variety of issues in biology education and science education, with a special emphasis on developing novel assessment tools to bettter understand how people from children to practicing scientists conceptualize the biological and physical world.  Similar to studies in the field of physics education, this research in biology education holds the promise of revealing insights into preconceptions and misconceptions in biology that can guide strategies for curriculum improvement and teaching reform.

 

Please see our website for a list of recent SEPAL publications and biogaphies of SEPAL research students. We look forward to working with you to find a way to integrate SEPAL experiences into your time at SFSU.

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Allyson Tintiangco

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Professor
Asian-American Studies, College of Ethnic Studies

Phone Number:
(415) 338-3491
Location:
EP 105

At SF State Since:

2000

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: 10:00-12:00
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

Bio:

Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University's College of Ethnic Studies. She is also the founding director of Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), an educational pipeline focused on providing ethnic studies to schools throughout San Francisco. She is also a founding director of the Institute of Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design (ISEEED) where she is the co-lead on the Teaching Excellence Network (TEN).  She received her Bachelors of Arts in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA in 2000. She has published several books and a wide array of articles that focus on the development of ethnic studies curriculum and community responsive pedagogy. She has received several university and community awards for her work with youth and service learning, including the 2006 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award from UCLA and the 2008 Faculty Award for Community Service Learning and recently received the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Award, one of the highest awards given to faculty for her service. She was recently recieved the Community Advocate Award from the Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG of the American Educational Research Association. She was also recently named one of the 100 most influential Filipina women in the world by Filipina Women’s Network.