Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

Dr. Tintiangco-Cubales is an award-winning distinguished professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Since 2000, she’s taught in the Asian American Studies courses focusing on Filipina/x/o (American) Studies, women studies, and courses focused on the praxis of Ethnic Studies pedagogy. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the Educational Leadership. She has mentored hundreds of critical master’s and doctoral students, who are now teaching and working in schools, colleges, and community organizations nationwide. Before her position at SFSU, she did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies and received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Education. In 2001, she founded Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a “barangay” that provides Ethnic Studies courses and curriculum, develops radical educators, and creates resources for Filipina/x/o communities and similarly marginalized people. Over the past two decades, she has worked with school districts, counties, and states to co-develop community rooted Ethnic Studies, Social Justice, and Filipino Language curricula. She has developed models of teacher development that are being used throughout California and beyond. She is also the co-founder and director of Community Responsive Education (CRE), a national firm that supports the development of responsive, equitable, and justice-driven educators. She is the author of four books of curriculum, and many articles focused on the applications of critical pedagogy, Ethnic Studies curriculum, Motherscholarship, and Pinayism.

• Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Education - Division of Social Science and Comparative Education
• B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies

Pinayism; Ethnic Studies pedagogy; community responsive pedagogy; culturally responsive teaching and evaluation; critical pedagogy; critical leadership praxis; Youth Studies; Asian American community development; Motherscholarship; Ethnic Studies and Filipina/o American Studies curriculum development; Filipina/o American critical cultural production; Asian American Women Studies

• 218 Asian American Culture        
• 352 Filipina/o American Literature, Art, and Culture
• 514 Asian American Community Arts Workshop
• 581 Asian American Women
• 681 Asian American Community Changes and Development
• 833 Seminar: Asian American Family and Identity
• 884 Critical Asian American Educational Experience and Pedagogy

2020-2023

Ethnic Studies and Youth Wellness Grants (Raikes Foundation, Oak Foundation, CZI Foundation, Spencer Foundation) 

2023

Filipino American Educators Association-Pinay Pioneer Award 

2020 

UC Davis Lifetime Achievement Award Embodying Equity and Diversity 

2017 

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Paulo Freire Award for Pin@y Educational Partnerships 

2016 

Certificate of Honor: San Francisco Board of Supervisors 

2015

Association of Asian American Studies Engaged Scholar Award

2014

• Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) Community Advocacy Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Filipino Advocates for Justice Award

2013

100 Most Influential Filipinas in the World Award, Filipina Women’s Network 

2011

Distinguished Faculty Award, Excellence in Service, SF State University

2008

Community Service Learning Award, San Francisco State University Institute of Civic and Community Engagement

2006

• Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, University of California at Los Angeles
• Community Service Award, Kababayan ed. of Manila Bulletin, South San Francisco
• National Ehlrich Service Learning Award     

2005

Leader of the Year Award Nominee, University of San Francisco School of Education

2003

San Francisco State University Presidential Award for Professional Development of Probationary Faculty

• Community Responsive Education, Director
• Movements & Moments: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook, UCLA, Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Expert Advisor
• Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), Founder and Former Director

Member of the following organizations:

• Coalition of Liberated Ethnic Studies 
• Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium 
• Justice 4 Angelo Quinto, Justice 4 All Campaign

• Faculty Advisor (Kappa Psi Epsilon)
• Faculty Advisor (League of Filipino Students - LFS)
• AAS RTP Committee
• RACE and RESISTANCE RTP Committee 

Books

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. and Desai, M. (2015) Kilusan 4 Kids: Critical Language for Elementary School Students. Volume II. Phoenix Publishing House International, Santa Clara, CA. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2013) Kilusan 4 Kids: Critical Language for Elementary School Students. Volume I. Phoenix Publishing House International, Santa Clara, CA. 

----------. (2009). Pin@y Educational Partnerships: A Filipina/o American Studies Sourcebook. Volume II: Filipina/o American Identities, Activism, and Service. Phoenix Publishing House International, Santa Clara, CA. 

----------. (2007). Pin@y Educational Partnerships: A Filipina/o American Studies Sourcebook. Volume I: Philippine and Filipina/o American History. Phoenix Publishing House International, Santa Clara, CA. 

Edited Books

Nadal, K., Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., EJR David. (2022) Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. (2 Volumes) Sage Publishing. 

With Pin@y Educational Partnerships, Filipino American National Historical Society, and Manilatown Heritage Foundation. (2011). Filipinos in San Francisco. Arcadia Publishing. San Francisco, CA. 

With the Department of Asian American Studies. (2009). At 40: Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. San Francisco, CA. 

Selected Publications

Concordia, A., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. (2024) “Policy isn’t Enough: What Professors Can Learn from Ethnic Studies K-12 Teachers.” in AAPI Nexus, UCLA. Accepted and in press. 

Gow, W., Buenavista, T., Nguyen, J. Nguyen, V., Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Umemoto, K. (2024) “Teaching Toward Justice and Liberation: Asian American Educators on the Implementation of Ethnic Studies in California K–12 Public Schools.” in AAPI Nexus, UCLA. Accepted and in press. Sacramento, J., Curammeng, E., San Diego, R., Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2023) “Toward a Critical Asian American Studies Pedagogy.” in Journal of Asian American Studies. John Hopkins University. 

Chen, E., Curammeng, E., Laurel, M., Li, K., Mehta, M., Pagtakhan, A., Sacramento, J., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. “K–12 Asian American Studies as Praxis: Insights from Asian American Teachers.” in Journal of Asian American Studies. John Hopkins University. Cruz, P., Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Daus-Magbual, A., Daus-Magbual, R. (2023) “Art of Work[book]: The Power of Text[ing] to Inspire Movement.” in Dance Studies Association Journal-Conversations Across the Field. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Fernandez, A., Concordia, A., Lozenski, B., Hagedorn, C., Sokolower, J., Kiswani, L., Covington, L., Martinez, V. (2022). “Fight for Ethnic Studies Moves to K-12 Classrooms”. Convergence: Arts and Culture Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Sacramento, J. (2022) “Pin[a/x]yism Revisited: A Pedagogical Praxis toward Collective Liberation.” in Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice. 

Cognella. Curammeng, E., Daus, L., Borja, J., Tintiangco-Cubales, A., (2022) “Identity Terms.” in Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. (2 Volumes) Sage Publishing. 

Sacramento, J., Tintiangco-Cubales. A, Borja, J. (2022) “Pinayism.” in Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. (2 Volumes) Sage Publishing. 

Matias, C., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. (2022) “Motherscholar.” in Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. (2 Volumes) Sage Publishing. Daus-Magbual, A., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. (2022) “Pin@y Educational Partnerships.” in Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. (2 Volumes) Sage Publishing. 

Matias, C., Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Jocson, K., Sacramento, J., Buenavista, T., Daus-Magbual, A., Halagao, P., (2021) “Raising Love in a Time of Lovelessness: Kuwentos of Pinayist Motherscholars Resisting COVID-19’s Anti-Asian Racism.” 

Peabody. Coloma, R., Hsieh, B., Poon, O., Chang, S., Sung, Y.m Meng, G., Patel, L., Tintiangco-Cubales, A.(2021). “Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence: Racial Grief, Visionary Organizing, and Educational Responsibility.” in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association. Routeldge. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Duncan-Andrade, J. (2020). “Still Fighting for Ethnic Studies: Origins, Practices, and Possibilities of Community Responsive Pedagogy.” Teachers College Record. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Halagao, P, Cordova, J. (2020) “Journey Back Over the Line”: Critical Pedagogies of Curriculum Evaluation. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation. Volume 16, Issue 36. Vossoughi, S., 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2020) (In Press) “Radically Transforming the World: Repurposing Education & Designing for Collective Learning & Well-Being.” Equitable Learning Development Project. Lopez. F., Desai, M., 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2020) “Asset-based Pedagogy: Student, Family, and Community Engagement for the Academic and Social-Emotional Learning of Multilingual Students.” California Department of Education. 

Daus-Magbual, A., Daus-Magbual, R., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. (2019). “Pin@y Educational PARtnerships: Ethnic Studies Students, Teachers and Leaders as Scholar Activists.” AAPI Nexus. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2019). “Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care)” in Fighting the Tower: Asian American Women Against Injustice in the Academy edited by Kieu-Linh Valverde, Shirley Hune, and Wei Ming Dariotis. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Kohli, R., Sacramento, J., Henning, N., Agarwal-Rangnath, R., and Sleeter, C. (2019). “What is Ethnic Studies Pedagogy?” Rethinking Schools. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Daus-Magbual, A., Daus-Magbual, R., Desai, M. (2019). “Barangay Pedagogy: Teaching as a Collective Act.” Rethinking Schools. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Tintiangco-Cubales, M. (2018), “Learning to Breathe: Pinayist Dialogue between Mother and Daughter.” in Radical Pinxy Reader edited by Melissa Nievera-Lozano and Tony Santa Ana. 

Curammeng, E., Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., (2017). “Growing Our Own Hope: The Development of a Pin@y Teacher Pipeline.” In Confronting Racism: Counternarratives of Critical Teacher Educators edited by Bree Picower and Rita Kohli. Routledge. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. and Curammeng, E. (2018). “Pedagogies of Resistance: Filipina/o “Gestures of Rebellion” Against the Inheritance of American Schooling.” in At War: Challenging Racism, Materialism, and Militarism in Education edited by Tracy Buenavista and Arshad Ali. 

Curammeng, E., Lopez, D. Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., (2016). “Community Responsive Literacies: The Development of the Ethnic Studies Praxis Story Plot.” in English Teaching: Practice and Critique. In Press. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Daus-Magbual, A. Desai, M., Sabac, A., Torres, M.V. (2016). Into Our Hoods: Where Critical Performance Pedagogy Births Resistance. in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 13 Oct 2016 

Daus-Magbual, A., Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., (2016). “The Power of Ethnic Studies: Developing Culturally and Community Responsive Leaders.” in “White” Washing American Education: The New Cultural Wars in Ethnic Studies edited by Tracy Buenavista and James Marin. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Kohli, R., Sacramento, J., Henning, N., Agarwal-Rangnath, R., and Sleeter, C. (2014). “Toward an Ethnic Studies Pedagogy: Implications for K-12 Schools from the Research.” The Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Mabalon, D. (2014). “Resistance and Struggle Are Sisters Revisited” Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America. Ed. Mark R. Villegas, Kuttin’ Kandi, and Roderick N. Labrador. San Diego, CA: Cognella Publishing. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2013). “Struggling to Survive: Poverty, Violence, and Invisibility in the lives of Urban Filipina/o American Youth” in The “Other” Students: Filipino Americans, Education, and Power edited by Dina Miramba and Rick Bonus. Information Age Publishing. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Kiang, P., and Museus, S. (2010). “Praxis and Power in the Intersections of Education.” In University of California, Los Angeles Press, AAPI Nexus, Vol. 8, No. 1. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Magbual-Daus, R., and Magbual-Daus, A. (2010). “Pin@y Educational Partnerships: A Counter-Pipeline to Create Critical Educators.” In University of California, Los Angeles Press, AAPI Nexus, Vol. 8, No. 1. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2009). “Filipino American Youth and Students.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia for Asian American Issues Today edited by Grace Yoo and Edith Chen. Halagao, P., Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Cordova, J.M (2009). “Critical Review of K-12 Filipina/o American Curriculum.” In University of California, Los Angeles Press, AAPI Nexus, Vol. 7, No. 1. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. and Sacramento, J. (2009). “Practicing Pinayist Pedagogy.” In University of California, Los Angeles Press, Amerasia Journal. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2009). “Open the Light: Critical Performance Pedagogy.” In At 40: Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. Published by San Francisco State University. 

Soe, V., Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., Dariotis, W.M. (2009). “POP! Reflections on Representing Asian American Culture.” In At 40: Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. Published by San Francisco State University. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2009). “Building a Community Center: Filipinas/os in San Francisco’s Excelsior Neighborhood of San Francisco.” In Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries edited by Huping Ling. Rutgers University Press.

 ----------. (2008). “Filipino American Students in San Francisco.” In The National Federation of Filipino American Associations’ report on Filipino American K-12 Public School Students. Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G., San Diego, R. (2008). “Asian American Studies.” In The Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnicity. Sage Publishing. 

Tintiangco-Cubales A.G., Mabalon, D., Erpelo, L (2008). The Romance of Magno Rubio Unit: Lesson Plans on the Filipino American Experiences in the 1930’s to 1940’s. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2007). “Final Project Runway: In the I’s of Asian American Women.” In Gender Identity, Equity and Violence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning. Edited by Geraldine Stahly. Stylus Publishing, forthcoming Spring 2007. 

Tintiangco-Cubales, A.G. (2005).“Pinayism.” In Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory. Edited by Melinda de Jesus. New York: Routledge Press, 2005.

2004

“Upon Flesh I See Words.” Anthology of Poetry. International Library of Poetry.

2001

• “SCHOOLED.”  Poem recorded on Know History, Know Self CD of Poetry and Spoken Word. San Jose, CA.
• with Tintiangco-Cubales, V.C. “What Do You Think of When You Think of Us?” Poem recorded on Know History, Know Self CD of Poetry and Spoken Word. San Jose, CA.

1998

“At the Risk.” Inflipration. The first Filipino American Poetry Anthology recorded on CD.  San Francisco.

1996

with Dawn B. Mabalon. “Resistance and Struggle Are Sisters.” Elements. Recording of hip hop music and poetry. Los Angeles.