Tony DelaRosa (he/siya) researches HMoob/Hmong and Asian American Education Policy Advocacy, Cross-EthnoRacial Literacy and Coalition Building, and Education Policy Implementation at UW-Madison Education Leadership and Policy Analysis department under Dr. Anjale Welton.
Outside of education, Tony co-investigates the USAP Tayo lab on Filipina/x/o Politics and Well-being at the Center for Healthy Minds.
Finally, he 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 social media at @TonyRosaSpeaks.
Awards and Honors:
NYU Faculty-First Look Fellow 2027
2026 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship ($27,500)
UW-Madison Asian American Studies Amy Ling Light Award 2025 ($500)
Bucky Award for Graduate Student Community Engagement & Activism 2024
https://cfli.wisc.edu/buckys-award-ceremony-winners/
OCA Wisconsin Graduate Leadership Fellowship 2024 ($5,000)
Wisconsin’s 40 Asian American Leaders in Wisconsin, awarded by Madison 365 Magazine in 2023
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:
• DelaRosa, T. (in press). Title of your chapter. In H. Stohry & B. Aronson (Eds). Asian and Latinx anti-Blackness in schools and communities: Complicated stories of complicity and resistance (pp. in progress). Myers Education Press.
DelaRosa, T. (2022). The Battle of Manila (1945). In K. L. Nadal (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American studies (Vols. 1–2). SAGE Publications.
Delarosa, T. (2018). LESSONS OF “RADICAL IMAGINATION”: WHAT THE FILIPINX COMMUNITY CAN LEARN FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY. Asian American Policy Review, 28, 84+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A645072627/AONE?u=anon~436bd3d5&sid=googleScholar&xid=240833c6
Selected Opinion Editorials:
DelaRosa, T. (2026, February 10). Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance should last well beyond halftime and extend to classrooms. The Hechinger Report. https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-performance-should-last-well-beyond-halftime-and-extend-to-classrooms/
DelaRosa, T. (2024, January 31). Ensuring racial literacy success for new Asian American K–12 policies. Scholars Strategy Network. https://scholars.org/contribution/ensuring-racial-literacy-success-new-asian
DelaRosa, T. (2021, August 31). Why coalitions aren’t just for political campaigns. Harvard Graduate School of Education. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/21/08/why-coalitions-arent-just-political-campaigns