Professional
Background
Education
Master of Arts, English: Concentration
in Composition
August 2003, San Francisco
State University
Thesis: "'Bridging the Gaps’: The Culture of Mentoring and the ‘At-Risk’
Basic Writing Student”
Certificate for the Teaching of Post-Secondary
Reading
March 2002, San Francisco
State University
Master of Arts, English: Concentration in Literature
May 2000, San Francisco
State University
Thesis: “Breaking Silence and Making Waves: The Asian American Writer
in America”
Bachelor of Arts, English
May 1995, San Diego
State University
Thesis: “The ‘Dual Heritage’: Questioning Ethnic Ambiguity
in the Texts of Asian America”
Professional
Organizations
Association
for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
Filipino American Educators Association of California (FAEAC)
Filipino American National Historical
Society (FANHS)
The Society for the Study of
the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
National Council for Teachers of English
(NCTE)
English Council of California Two-Year Colleges
(ECCTYC)
Publications/Presentations
Consultant & Presenter, 2003
NCTE Annual Convention Workshops • “Celebrating the Voices in
Asian American Literature: Worlds beyond The Joy Luck Club” • November
24, 2003
Presenter, 37th
Annual California Reading
Association Conference • “Constructivist Reading Groups”
• November 8, 2003
Participant, Filipino
American Educators Association of California 15th Annual Statewide Educators
Conference, “Ensuring Quality in Education” • October 24-25,
2003
Participant, English
Council of California Two-Year Colleges 2003 Conference, “Crafting
Literacies,” • October 16-18, 2003
Participant, Secondary
Reading Institute sponsored by CAPI/CPDI and the California Reading & Literature
Project • June through September 2002
Web Site Designer, “English
708: A Retrospect in HTML,” used by the Center for the Enhancement
of Teaching for “Integrating Technology Into Teaching: Summer Camp 2002”
• San Francisco State University • May 14, 2002
Organizer & Co-Facilitator, 3rd
Annual CRAFT Pedagogy in
Practice Conference • San Francisco State University • May 4, 2002
Co-Facilitator, CRAFT
New Graduate Teaching Associates Workshop • Presenter, “How
to Stamp Out Plagiarism” • San Francisco State University •
July 28, 2001
Participant, “‘Generation
1.5’ Second Language Writers: A Workshop for ESL and Composition Teachers”
Workshop • San Francisco State University • December 6, 2000
Presenter, 16th
Annual Association for Asian American Studies
Conference • “Being Asian American: Diasporic Identities through
Artistic Expression”
Philadelphia, PA • April 1, 1999
Presenter,
First Berkeley Filipino Studies Symposium •
“Harmony at Last: The Filipina American Experience through Poetry”
University of California, Berkeley • May 31, 1995