Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Election
Position
Name
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Candidate statement
Professor and Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco State University
Bio & Candidate Statement: AAAS has and continues to be an intellectual and political homespace for Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. As a trained sociologist and professor in Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, Francisco's scholarship and activism has always been multidisciplinary thus making the field of Asian American Studies, and specifically Critical Filipinx Diasporic Studies, a robust space for her engagement. Serving as President-Elect, and later President of AAAS, would be a way to give back to an organization that has shaped much of her scholarship and activism, and most importantly, to ensure that moving forward, AAAS is shaped by intentional and collaborative work with community, members, the Board and staff.
In 2020, she received the Early Career Award and her first book, The Labor of Care, won an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences both by the Association of Asian American Studies. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez is an award-winning scholar-activist, researcher, writer and educator whose academic and political work calls attention to the experiences of Filipina migrants in care work industries and their indelible abilities to form solidarities and organize with one another. Her recent book, Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis, is the inaugural book in the University of Washington Press, Critical Filipinx Studies Series, published in December 2024.
Bio & Candidate Statement: AAAS has and continues to be an intellectual and political homespace for Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. As a trained sociologist and professor in Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, Francisco's scholarship and activism has always been multidisciplinary thus making the field of Asian American Studies, and specifically Critical Filipinx Diasporic Studies, a robust space for her engagement. Serving as President-Elect, and later President of AAAS, would be a way to give back to an organization that has shaped much of her scholarship and activism, and most importantly, to ensure that moving forward, AAAS is shaped by intentional and collaborative work with community, members, the Board and staff.
In 2020, she received the Early Career Award and her first book, The Labor of Care, won an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences both by the Association of Asian American Studies. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez is an award-winning scholar-activist, researcher, writer and educator whose academic and political work calls attention to the experiences of Filipina migrants in care work industries and their indelible abilities to form solidarities and organize with one another. Her recent book, Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis, is the inaugural book in the University of Washington Press, Critical Filipinx Studies Series, published in December 2024.