Robyn RodriguezRobyn Magalit Rodriguez is the founding director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies, the first of its kind at a major research university in the United States. The center leads research, educational, and community -engaged projects on he Filipinx diasporic experience. She is also a widely published scholar with expertise on Philippine migration. Her first book, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), received an honorable mention for best social science book by the Association for Asian American Studies. In late 2019, she published Filipino American Transnational Activism: Diasporic Politics among the Second Generation (Brill). Presently, she is coauthoring a book on Filipino immigration to the United States since the early 2000s; the book is under advance contract with the University of Hawai‘i Press. Alongside her scholarly work, Rodriguez works as a community organizer. She has long worked with Migrante International, the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), the Filipino American Educators Association of California (FAEAC), among other organizations. Read More Read Less