Wayne Jopanda is a 5th year Cultural Studies doctoral candidate at UC Davis, researching the history of U.S. imperial education in the Philippines and its connections to current trafficked Filipino teachers and the neoliberal university’s commodification of Filipinos as bodies of labor. Wayne also studies how current Filipino students at U.S. universities respond to these histories of westernized colonial education in the Philippines through community building, collective activisms, and creating spaces of belonging. Wayne is a cofounder and acting Associate Director for the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. He also serves as the founding Director of the Buloasan Center Internship Program. Wayne also teaches Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Youth Studies, and Migration Studies as an Adjunct Professor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Wayne aims to support Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies through his community engaged research and continuing his journey as a scholar activist in training