Professor and Faculty Lead of Human Services & Social Work, Program Director for the Program for Engaged Educational Resources, Co-Director of our AANAPISI Program ICAN (Inclusive City Achievement Network, San Diego City College
Vice Chair, California Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs; Chair, Higher Education Committee
Advisor, Asian Pacific Islander Advisory to the Office of the City of San Diego Mayor
Member, Council on Social Work Education Curriculum Committee on Military Social Work
Advisor, University of California San Diego Community and Scientific Advisory Board, LinkUP project
Founder, and Executive Director, Asian Pacific Islander Community Actions
Co-Founder, IKAT: Indigenous Knowledge, Art, Truth
Chair, Made in Paradise Hills
Advisor, Peoples Collective for Justice and Liberation
Steering Committee Member, FIERCE: Filipinx Igniting Engagement for Re-Imagining and Collective Em(power)ment
Vice President Emeritus, Southwestern Community College District Governing Board
Founding Board Member, San Diego Asian Pacific Islander Coalition
Mentor, San Diego Leadership Alliance
ACCOLADES
Kirin Macapugay Day declared in the County of San Diego on December 12, 2022
Proclamations and Commendations, Southwestern Community College District, United States Congress, California Senate, California State Assembly, County of San Diego, City of San Diego, City of Chula Vista
50 Most Influential Asians in San Diego, San Diego Business Journal, 2022
Civic Excellence Leadership Award, Asian Pacific American Coalition, 2022
"Woman Who Inspires US," San Diego Magazine, 2021
District Shero, County of San Diego District 1, 2021
Civil Rights Woman Leader, RISE San Diego, 2015
Women of Influence, Connected Women of Influence, 2015
Nonprofit Leadership Award, Asian Pacific American Coalition, 2014
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04_ADVOCACY AND CIVICS
06_EDUCATION
Doctorate of Social Work, University of Southern California, September 2024
NCORE, the National
Conference on Race and Ethnicity Scholar, 2023
MSW, San Diego State University, 2002
BA Psychology, San Diego State University, 2000
Certificate, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Columbia X, 2020
CITI Certification, Human Research, Social-Behavioral Human Subjects, University of Southern California, 2023
08_SUBJECT MATTERS
Social Work & Human Services
Social Work Curriculum
Community Organizing & Social Justice
Civic Engagement and Policy
Indigenous Igorot Culture and Tradition and the Fil-Am Community
09_COMMUNITY FORUMS
PUBLICATIONS
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Introduction to Social Work, Empowering People & Communities, Kirin Macapugay, Cognella Publishing, 2019
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“Community to Capitol: A Framework for State Level Advocacy for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Students in Higher Education,” Cirian Villavicencio & Kirin Macapugay, UCLA AAPI NEXUS Journal, April 2024
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“Understanding and Dismantling the The Model Minority Stereotype,” Addressing Anti-Asian Racism with Social Work Advocacy and Action, Lailaine Sevillano & Kirin Macapugay, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024
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“The SENSEI Framework for Student Empowerment, a Culturally Affirming Pedagogy,” Kirin Macapugay & Benjamin Nakamura, Genealogy: Shifting Structural Power and Advancing Transformational Changes Among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC): Elevating the Voices of the Community, May 2024, under review and revision
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“Atang to Kuwentos: The Power of Communal Care as Decolonial Mental Health Praxis Among Pilipinx Americans” Lailaine Sevillano, Joanna LaTorre, Kirin Macapugay, Gabrielle Aquino-Adriatico, et al., under review by American Psychologist Practicing Decolonial and Liberation Psychologies, September 2023, under review and revision
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“What I Have Learned from Warrior Women,” Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice. Edited by Amanda Solomon, Candice Tan, Jen Soriano, February 2023
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“Paradise Hills, 1994,” Reclaiming our Stories, Edited by Paul Alexander & Manuel Lopez, San Diego City Works Press, 2020
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“Paradise Hills,” Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader, Edited by Melissa Nievera-Lozano and Tony Santa Ana, Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc, 2017
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“Lolas,” They Magazine, Edited by Maureen Abugan, 2017
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“The Youth Canao,” Alliance for California Traditional Arts, 2013
“How will You Create Positive Change, Edited by Leah Oviedo, 2012
MEDIA
Kirin has been featured and appeared in:
PBS
KPBS San Diego
KGTV 10 News
CBS 8
Fox 5
The Filipino Channel
Adobo Nation
ABS-CBN
San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Magazine
Voice of San Diego
Asian Journal
Voyager San Diego Magazine
This Filipino American Life Podcast
Yellow Ranger Podcast
Filipino Press
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
National Association of Social Workers
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10_PARADISE HILLS ASSETS