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Inherited Legacies:
Inherited Legacies:
Identity, Impact, and Sustainability
Identity, Impact, and Sustainability
Saturday - October 2, 2021
Saturday - October 2, 2021
9:30 - 10:20
Plenary I
Plenary I
Advocacy for Accessibility
Panel Members: Dr. Angelica Cortez, Dr. DJ Kuttin Kandi, Cyndi Abundabar Ting, Dr. Lily Ann Villaraza
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10:30 - 11:20
Workshops I
Understanding the Contemporary Asian American Experience: Vital Knowledge for Educational Professionals
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Dr. Rodriguez provides brief overview of her newly launched on-line course, "Asian America: An Introductory Course," which is based on the recently published 2nd edition of her co-authored book, "Asian America." The course is designed for those working in K-12 education who are interested in gaining better insight into their Asian American students’ lives in all of their complexity. The course will focus on the following topics: Americans’ history of immigration and settlement, Asian American identities, Asian American families and intimate relationships, Asian Americans’ educational and relatedly, economic achievement, and interethnic/interracial relations (including the long history of anti-Asian hate).
Buong Loob: Centering Filipina/o/x American student experiences and their mental wellbeing
Recording coming soon!
The “Filipino Student Wellness Internship” is an ongoing partnership with SFUSD’s Office of College and Career Readiness (CCR) and the Filipinx Club at James Denman MS that provides Filipinx identified HS and MS students with opportunities to learn about mental health and wellness within the context of their ethnic and socio-cultural experiences. Join Verma Zapanta, M. Ed and Harvey Lozada, MSW. As they share their experience piloting the internship in partnership with the school district and what they have planned for 2021-2022. You’ll have opportunities to learn how you can get started on developing this opportunity for your Filipinx students.
Understanding Filipino American Mental Health and Ethnic-Racial Identity
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In 2019, Worrell et al. introduced the Cross Ethnic-Racial Identity Scale-Adult (CERIS-A) to the literature as a way to assess ethnic-racial identity (ERI) in multiple ethnic-racial groups. In this study, we investigated the reliability and validity of scores on the (CERIS-A) in a sample of Filipino American adults. The CERIS-A consists of 29 items with seven subscales assessing assimilation, miseducation, self-hatred, anti-dominant, ethnocentricity, multiculturalist inclusive, and ethnic-racial salience. Confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the 7-factor structure and CERIS-A scores had meaningful associations with ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, and other group orientation in theoretically congruent ways.
Philip Vera Cruz & The Thinking of a Filipino/x/a Radical Tradition
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The workshop reintroduces Vera Cruz for our times, reevaluating his published oral history in dialogue with other primary source materials as well as individual interviews I conducted with Asian American Movement (AAM) leaders who were close confidants with him. Of particular interest is the manner in which his thinking evolved through a lifetime of activism that spanned more than seven decades (from the 1920s to the 1980s). I will share how Vera Cruz' thinking grew more radical in the twilight of his life, as he bridged two different social movements one led by Filipino farmworkers and the other by Asian American student activists. Inspired by Vera Cruz’s thinking and the manner it was reinvented in response to the chaos of a changing world, the workshop concludes by showing his ongoing relevance for a new generation confronted by the brutal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teaching Students to Speak Up: Tools for Cultivating Advocacy and Justice
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In my community college classes, my students are learning about social work and social justice, learning-- applying history, research, theoretical concepts into advocacy. I teach students to view themselves as partners in others' liberation. I will share ideas for assignments and practices centering on teaching students to advocate for themselves and others, including identifying a cause or community important to them, sharing and framing personal narratives or lived experience as expertise, researching information and reasons they want to advocate for this particular community, and learning how to make specific asks leading to the change they hope to see.
11:30 - 12:20
Plenary II
Plenary II
Health and Wellness
Panel Members: Adelina Tancioco, Janet Co, Verma Zapanta, Dr. Robyn Rodriguez
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1:00 - 1:50
Plenary III
Plenary III
Ethnic Studies
Panel Members: Megan Sapigao, Freedom Siyam, Erica Viray Santos, Tracie Noriega
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2:00 - 2:50
Workshops II
Filipino Americans' Perceptions of Mental Health
Jessica Page, MSW Candidate; Dr. Clifford Bersamira, Associate Professor
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Mental health is an issue that silently permeates the Filipino diasporic community. It often goes unaddressed until a crisis such as hospitalization, incarceration, addiction, or even death occurs. This study was conducted to understand how diasporic Filipinos perceive mental health, how to engage Filipinos in conversations of mental health, and to provide insight to policymakers, social service providers, family members, and consumers on how to engage clients from this community with respect for our culture and beliefs. Sixteen qualitative interviews were conducted over the span of five months. Cultural phenomena, mental health experiences, barriers to help-seeking, and mental health implications are discussed.
The Impact of Pin[a/x]yist Identities
Dr. Amanda Solomon Amorao, Dr. DJ Kuttin Kandi, Jen Soriano, Joanmarie Banez, Aimee Jurado
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Panelists will share about their experiences engaging with the inherited legacies of Pinayism/Peminism while laboring during the pandemic on an anthology about FIlipina American activism. Presenters will dialogue about how their experiences as academics, activists, writers, artists, graduate students, and/or mothers shaped their identities as Pinays and approaches to producing the first anthology on Filipina American feminist practices since Melinda de Jesus’s Pinay Power. This panel will focus explicitly on the impact Pinayist/peminist approaches can have on educational spaces and how to sustain collaborations that cross the academic/activist divide for the communal liberation of all.
Evaluating Districtwide Ethnic Studies Initiatives
James Fabionar & Jennifer Manglicmot
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With the a statewide Ethnic Studies (ES) graduation requirement on the horizon, little is known about the successful design, implementation, and evaluation of large-scale ES initiatives. In an urban school district, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) personnel led the implementation of the district’s ES initiatives. This study distills and examines policy-relevant dynamics by examining the work of these administrators as captured in semi-structured interviews, field observations, and key documents. We argue that the work of these particular central district administrators encompass important policy implications for the organizational challenges associated with implementing ES statewide.
True Racial Equity Practices Across Organizations in an Era of Cooptation and Dilution
Dr. Angelica Cortez, Vanessa Grijalva, Dr. Edwin Tan
Recording coming soon!
Why does racial justice and equity have multiple and different meanings depending on the field? With the earliest diversity and inclusion programs stemming from public education systems over a span of 50+ years, the definition of racial justice and equity continues to get conflated with diversity, equity and inclusion. How do you believe these concepts and practices are different? How do you believe they are the same? What do we need to do to move a racial equity agenda forward across all sectors that impact our communities? In this workshop, we will discuss the distinction between racial equity and diversity, equity and inclusion in modern organizations. Leading the conversation will be Dr. Gel Cortez, Executive Director of LEAD Filipino and Vice President of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Uplift Family Services; Vanessa Grijalva, Racial Justice & Equity Manager at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group; and Dr. Edwin Tan, Advocacy Manager, San Jose State University.
3:00 - 3:50
Workshops III
This interactive presentation will engage educators in developing an understanding of a framework for linguistically responsive teaching and leadership and applying this model to improving the education of the Filipinx community. The presenter will share both professional examples as a teacher and educational leader as well as personal examples as a multiracial (Filipino/Latino/White) student. The framework critically analyzes our orientations to multilingual learners and their communities, leadership, and language development instruction.
Presentation: "Filipino American Creative Arts and the Pitfalls of Cultural Subjectivity"
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Interactions of emotional charge are not unique but rather emblematic of the heightened states in which the minoritized have learned to be accustomed. We live in desperate times where processes of exclusion and marginalisation spark conflict within groups causing fractures and an uneasy atrophy at previously united fronts. Complications arise in voicings of collective cultural subjectivity. It is difficult to explain that while efforts to increase visibility and representation of Filipino America in the creative arts do increase feelings of inclusion, we need to ask: How can we shift the lens to how to think/teach about difference and teach/do difference in lasting ways?
Planting LegaSEEDS and Establishing a Filipinx Learning Community
Representatives from Skyline College, College of San Mateo, Napa Valley College, City College of San Francisco, and Southwestern College
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"The Filipinx learning communities from Skyline College, College of San Mateo, Napa Valley College, City College of San Francisco, and Southwestern College will discuss the history of their respective learning communities and how the COVID-19 pandemic brought them together to develop a network to support Filipinx students and educators in the California community colleges.
Participants will take away strategies to (1) plant their own LegaSEEDS and establish a Filipinx Learning Community, (2) nourish and feed the growth of the learning community, and (3) flourish, harvest, and share the fruits of their labor by connecting with other advocacy groups and organizations."
"Our mindset and survival mode have turned into a weakness for our Filipino students. They have become hesitant to seek help because they’re ashamed of not seeming emotionally tough. Many times it stems from their parents telling them to “get over it,” “suck it up” or “be strong.”
Filipinos and Asians, as a whole are suggested to be affluent, well-educated and report fewer mental health conditions and don’t need mental health support, than those who are white. How do we identify these students? How do we recognize this weakness and provide the mental health and wellness support for these students?
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is an observation and evidence based strategy that uses pre selected pieces of art and three questions; What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can you find? Participants share observations and evidence about an image. Other participants can then add their own interpretations or build on previous observations. VTS is a successful instructional tool because art is accessible text for greater numbers of students. Students have more opportunities for participation though art as opposed to written text.
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