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My diversity statement

As an educator-practitioner-advocate in the global public health and social welfare sector, I strive to apply teaching/training/capacity-building strategies rooted from human rights and inclusion frameworks. The following principles below serve as my core values as an educator:

  • Education is a basic human right for individuals to live and flourish to their greatest potential

  • Education is a key to independence, health, economic mobility, and thriving

  • Education is a dynamic, meaningful, exhilarating, and inspiring experience

  • Education is a vital system to inform and infuse fundamental human rights from generation to the next including rights to freedom and peace, gender equity, integrity of governments, democratic space, recognition of ethnic, religious and cultural diversity

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My teaching philosophy

guiding lightS & values

calling to diversity

My motivation and life-long mission towards diversity, inclusivity, and equity (DEI) are embedded in my ancestry as a Filipina woman and first-generation college student in the U.S. I exist here today- as an educator, scholar, activist- because of my family’s lineage who have historically fought for freedom and independence against colonial and imperialist rule.

Henceforth, defending for DEI has been in my blood at a cellular level and continues to be part of my journey through systemic levels through my role as a public health practitioner-scholar-advocate today.

I cherish my experience in working with and serving diverse groups of individuals who have been disproportionately impacted by disease/illness/poorer health outcomes/broader structural issues. And I continuously seek to uplift their voices through practice, scholarship, and avocacy; these groups have included BICOP and LGBTQIA+ communities, people living with  HIV/AIDS, people who are incarcerated, people who suffer from chronic poverty and homelessness, youth in juvenile hall, and adults with mental health disorders.

I welcomingly invite student-scholars to safe, respectful, friendly, and enlightening spaces of discovery and learning that embraces pluralism, learning and unlearning, and camaraderieship. 


(1) My hope is that my student-scholars are able to exercise a discovery-driven experience of learning where they are able to channel the wonder, adventure, and exploration that the field of public health and social welfare brings. 

(2) My hope is that my student-scholars find deeper meaning and connection of course content to their respective professional goals.

(3) My ultimate hope as an educator is that my student-scholars take away something that not only adds to their knowledge base, but more significantly, is part of developing their whole personhood.


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Teaching

I am an educator at heart. Whether it is instructing on handwashing in a Honduran village, to building skills amongst health care providers, to promoting safe sexual health for incarcerated youth, to creating a booklet on health coverage, to training promotoras in East Los Angeles, and to mentoring students— I enjoy and I am always energized by serving as an  educator, trainer, and capacity builder in all its forms.