Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez is an associate professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco (USF), and is the only tenured Pinay at the university. She also serves on the boards of USF’s Mast...view moreEvelyn Ibatan Rodriguez is an associate professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco (USF), and is the only tenured Pinay at the university. She also serves on the boards of USF’s Master’s in migration studies, critical diversity studies, Asian Pacific American studies, and Yuchengco Philippine studies programs. She was born in Honolulu; raised in San Diego; graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, San Diego; completed her PhD in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; and studies and teaches about race, ethnicity, gender, immigration, and generation. She is the author of Celebrating Debutantes and Quinceañeras: Coming of Age in American Ethnic Communities (Temple University Press, 2013). Her new research explores how US young adults who identify as neither monoracially Black or white imagine and discuss race and civic participation. She has been an active member of Asian Women United of California since 1998, and has served the organization as president since 2004.view less