Tony DelaRosa (he/siya) researches how institutions, coalitions, & policies influence how people build their racial literacy pertaining to Asian American history and narratives. He is an ELPA PhD student & is the author of the award-winning book “Teaching the Invisible Race: Embodying a Pro-Asian American Lens in Schools” (Jossey-Bass / Wiley Publishing).
Learn more at TonyRosaSpeaks.com or follow him on socials media at @TonyRosaSpeaks.
Awards and Honors
Bucky Award for Graduate Student Community Engagement & Activism 2024
https://cfli.wisc.edu/buckys-award-ceremony-winners/
The Asian American Foundation Community Trailblazer Award for AAPI Unsung Heroes 2023 (insert link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7y5KAs2h_4&t=109s)
National Association of Asian American Professionals Inspire Award 2021
Selected Refereed Publications:
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education: Language, Literacy, Youth and Culture: “How Abolition informs Spoken Word Pedagogy” (forthcoming 2025)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education: Race and Ethnicity: “The Model Minority Myth” (forthcoming 2025)
The Battle of Manila 1945, “The Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies” Vol 1-2 (2023)
Lessons of “Radical Imagination”:What the Filipinx Community Can Learn from the Black Community (Harvard Asian American Policy Review)
Selected Opinion Editorials:
Ensuring Racial Literacy Success for New Asian American K-12 Policies (Policy Brief with Scholars Strategy Network) https://scholars.org/contribution/ensuring-racial-literacy-success-new-asian
You Will Encounter the Model Minority Myth, But it is Your Legacy to Resist it (One Day Magazine)
https://www.teachforamerica.org/one-day/opinion/you-will-encounter-the-model-minority-myth-but-it-is-your-legacy-to-resist-it
Why Coalitions are Now Just for Political Campaigns (Harvard Usable Knowledge)
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/21/08/why-coalitions-arent-just-political-campaigns
Presentations
2024 UW-Madison Education Policy Studies Conference.“Asian Male Teachers of Color and Racial Literacy Development: A Counterstory Centering the NYC Men Teach Asian American Initiative.”
2024 American Education Research Association Conference. “Isang Bagsak as an Educational Framework: Including Asian Americans in Social Justice Discourse.”