PEP Faculty 2008-2009

Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Ph.D.

E-mail: aticu@sfsu.edu

PEP Director and Founder

Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University's College of Ethnic Studies. 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 is the founder and director of Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a service and teaching pipeline focused on the marriage between critical Filipina/o American Studies and critical pedagogy. Her research focuses on Filipina/o American youth, community studies, critical performance pedagogy and Pinayism, a concept that she coined in 1995. She is currently a senior research associate with the Educational Equity Initiative with the Cesar Chavez Institute and an Urban Fellow with the Institute on Civic and Community Engagement. She serves as a consultant with the San Francisco Unified School District on the development of ethnic studies curriculum for high school students. She is also on the Board of the Directors for the Filipino Community Center located in San Francisco's Excelsior District, on the Advisory Board for Manilatown Heritage Foundation, and the on the Board for the Bayshore Childcare Services in Daly City. 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. Along with her professional accomplishments and community service, she is happily married to her husband Valentino, who is also a teacher, and they have a four-year old daughter named Mahalaya. She attributes much of ability to pursue a life of service to her supportive husband, parents, sister, relatives, friends, and dedicated students.

Arlene S. Daus-Magbual

E-mail: alena_sd@hotmail.com

Associate Director of Program Development

Arlene S. Daus-Magbual is a Pinay that was born in East Los Angeles and raised in Long Beach and Riverside CA. Arlene is the Associate Director for Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the University of California Riverside, and her Master of Arts in Asian American Studies at the San Francisco State University. Next fall she will pursue her Doctorate in Education at San Francisco State University. Her experience with nonprofits includes organizations such as Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Oakland Kids First, Girlsource, the Filipino American Development Foundation and the Filipino Community Center. She currently resides in Daly City, CA with her husband Roderick Daus-Magbual and their 3-month-old Pinay sweetheart Amianan.

Roderick Rana Daus-Magbual

E-mail: rodmagbual@gmail.com

Associate Director of Curriculum Development

Roderick Raña Daus-Magbual is a Bay Area transplant via Riverside and Long Beach, CA. He received his BA in Liberal Studies from UC Riverside in 2000, his MA in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in 2004, and is currently a Doctoral student at the University of San Francisco (USF) in the Organization and Leadership (O&L) Program and a minor in the International Multicultural Education (IME) Program. Over the past five years, Rod has served as a teacher, coordinator, and as the current Associate Director of Curriculum Development for the Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP). PEP is a service learning education program which partners with SFSU Asian American Studies (AAS), San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), and the Filipino Community Center (FCC). PEP provides a transformative decolonizing curriculum based on Filipina/o American Studies to elementary, middle school, high school, and community college students. PEP provides educational opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate SFSU students to gain skills in curriculum development, lesson planning, and teaching. In addition, Rod teaches the "Filipino Community Issues" course at Skyline College. Rod truly believes that education has the potential to uplift the mind, body, and soul to transform our society towards positive social change.