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

Their research investigates the relationships between race & colonial governance during the American colonization of the Philippines, with particular attention to Filipino teachers employed under colonial rule. They also write about Filipina/x/o American diasporic activism and care work in migrant justice movements, drawing on their involvement in GABRIELA, an alliance of progressive womxn’s grassroots organizations.

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). Annelle holds a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Davis and MA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University.