Arlene Daus-Magbual

Dr. Arlene Daus-Magbual is an Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and the Director of Leadership Development for Pin@y Educational Partnerships. She is a community engaged mother scholar, and her experiences include community-based organizing with youth and students, non-profit leadership development and higher education administration. Her research focuses on Ethnic Studies, Race, Anti- Asian Violence, Critical Leadership Praxis, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Parenting and Barangay Pedagogy. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from UC Riverside, masters in Asian American Studies and doctorate in Educational Leadership from San Francisco State University.

• EdD San Francisco State University, Educational Leadership
• MA San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies
• BA University of California Riverside, Political Science

Filipino American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Anti- Asian Violence, Critical Leadership Praxis, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Parenting, Barangay Pedagogy, Asian Americans in Education, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI)

AAS 101 First Year Experience in Oral Communication

AAS 110 Critical Thinking

AAS 218 Asian American Culture

AAS 593 Asian Americans in Education

ETHS 102 Introduction to Ethnic Studies

EDUC 250 Teaching and Learning Beyond the Classroom

Principal Investigator and Project Director               

2022- present  

Access, Relevance, and Community for Transfer Students (ARC) 

Cooperative Grant with San Mateo Community College District  

Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) 

Department of Education Title III Part A Funding  

Principal Investigator and Project Director    

2020-present 

Responsive Education for Access, Community, and Hope (REACH) 

Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) 

Department of Education Title III Part A Funding  

San Francisco State University 

Co-Principal Investigator     

2016-2024 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Retention and Education (ASPIRE) 

Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) 

Department of Education Title III Part F Funding  

San Francisco State University  

Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP)   

2003-present 

Organizational Director  

Daly City Commission of Arts and Culture

2017- present 

Commissioner, Vice Chair, Chair

Current Campus Service  

Asian American Studies Department Hiring Committee 

2023- present  

Asian American Studies Department Scholarship Committee        

2022-present 

Doctoral Partnership Advisory Board for Ed.D. program.                                         

2022-present 

CSU Student Success Graduation Initiative 2025           

2018-present 

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Co-Chair on Student Success  

2021-2023 

• Daus-Magbual, A., Desai, R., Donell, K., Kang, J., Yoo,G. (2024) Building a culture of care: The development of an Ethnic Studies Centered Faculty Learning Community. AAPI Nexus Journal, Special Issue, Asian American Studies Now: Contemporary Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education.

• Daus-Magbual, A., Daus-Magbual, R., Daus, L. (2023) Growing teacher activists: Pin@y educational partnerships’ community ACTion praxis. Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 26, Number 2, 2022, pp.243-254

• Cruz, P., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. Daus-Magbual, A. Daus-Magbual, R. (2023) The art of work[book]: Power of text[ing] to inspire movement. Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, Chats Volume 1: Social Choreography in the Digitil: Where bodies might. 2023.

• Daus-Magbual, A. (2022). Critical leadership praxis. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, Kevin L. Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, E.J.R. David, (Vols 1-2). SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022.

• Daus-Magbual, A. (2022). The murder of Joseph Ileto. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, Kevin L. Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, E.J.R. David, Vols 1-2). SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022.

• Daus-Magbual, A., Tintianco-Cubales, A., Daus-Magbual, R., (2022). Pin@y educational partnerships. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, Kevin L. Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, E.J.R. David, Vols 1-2). SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022.

• Daus-Magbual, A, Loi-On, L. (2022). Fighting for our existence: Talanoas of survival and resistance at SF State. AAPI Nexus Journal Special Issue Models of Change: AANAPISIs in Action.

• Matias, C., Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Jocson, K., Sacramento, J., Buenavista, T., Daus-Magbual, A., Halagao, P. (2022) Raising love in a time of lovelessness: kuwentos of Pinayist motherscholars resisting COVID -19’s Anti- Asian Racism.

• Daus-Magbual, A. (2020) Being grounded with an ethnic studies legacy-ASPIRE SFSU. About Campus: AANAPISI Special Issue. Sage Publications. (1) 26-29

• 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 Journal Special Issue on Serving the Community: Reflections for Sustainable Partnerships and Organizational Transformation.

• Daus-Magbual, A., Daus-Magbual, R., Desai, R., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. (2019). Barangay pedagogy: Teaching as a collective act. Rethinking Ethnic Studies (Rethinking Schools)

• Daus-Magbual, R, Daus-Magbual, A (2018) Raising revolution: Critical Pin@y Parenting. Pilipinx radical imagination reader. Pilipino American Writers & Artists Inc.
• Dariotis, W.M, Daus-Magbual, A., Yoo, G. (2017) What am I doing here? Making meaning in culturally engaged Asian American community- based service-learning. In culturally engaging service-learning with diverse communities. A Volume in the Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series, 89-106

• Daus-Magbual, A., Tintiangco-Cubales, A. (2016) The Power of Ethnic Studies: Developing Culturally and Community Responsive Leaders. White Washing American Education: The New Culture Wars in Ethnic Studies (Praeger Publishers, Fall 2015)

• Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Daus-Magbual, A., Desai, M., Torres, M., Sabac,A. (2016) Into the hoods: Where critical performance pedagogy births resistance. International Journal Qualitative Studies in Education

• Tintiangco-Cubales, A., Daus-Magbual, R. R., & Daus-Magbual, A. S. (2010). Pin@y Educational Partnerships: A counter-pipeline to create critical educators. AAPI Nexus Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community, [volume 7] [Issue 1], 76-100.

Selected Creative Works  

(2024) Co -Produced with Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Roderick Daus-Magbual, and Patrick Cruz. Art Of Work. Short Film