Annelle Maranan Garcia is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.

Broadly, their current research examines the making of racialized labor/ing subjects through education in the US colonial-era Philippines. Annelle has also written about Filipina/x/o American diasporic activism and care work in migrant movements, informed by their involvement in GABRIELA, an alliance of progressive Filipino womxn’s grassroots organizations in the Philippines and abroad.

Annelle’s work has been published in Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies and Sociological Inquiry.

They are proud to be a non-traditional and transfer student from the California Community College system (Mission College, West Valley College), where they studied after several years at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Annelle holds a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Davis and MA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University.