Please join us on our second talk of the year by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez:
“Caring for Caregivers
Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis”
Thursday October 2nd, 2025
4 PM - 6 PM
Hart Hall 3201
“Caring for Caregivers
Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis”
Thursday October 2nd, 2025
4 PM - 6 PM
Hart Hall 3201
All are welcome
Caring for Caregivers explores how Filipina care workers in the Bay Area (2013–2021) support each other while enduring harsh, low-wage labor in the U.S. healthcare system. Despite facing exhaustion, abuse, and illness - especially during COVID-19 - they build mutual aid networks through shared storytelling (kuwentuhan) and community care.
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, PhD, is a scholar-activist and professor at San Francisco State University whose work highlights Filipina migrant care workers, their community-building, and resistance to labor exploitation. Her research uses cultural methods like kuwentuhan and critiques global labor systems. Her upcoming book, Caring for Caregivers, will launch the University of Washington’s Critical Filipinx Studies Series in 2024.
See you there!
Caring for Caregivers explores how Filipina care workers in the Bay Area (2013–2021) support each other while enduring harsh, low-wage labor in the U.S. healthcare system. Despite facing exhaustion, abuse, and illness - especially during COVID-19 - they build mutual aid networks through shared storytelling (kuwentuhan) and community care.
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, PhD, is a scholar-activist and professor at San Francisco State University whose work highlights Filipina migrant care workers, their community-building, and resistance to labor exploitation. Her research uses cultural methods like kuwentuhan and critiques global labor systems. Her upcoming book, Caring for Caregivers, will launch the University of Washington’s Critical Filipinx Studies Series in 2024.
See you there!
