Lily Ann B. Villaraza is a Professor and Chair of the Philippine Studies Department at City College of San Francisco, where she teaches courses on the Filipino Family, Philippine Culture and Society through Film, Philippine History, and Contemporary Issues in the Filipino Diaspora. Lily Ann also serves as a national scholar for the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) and co-editor of the annual FANHS journal. One of her current "nerd nugget" obsessions is identifying and documenting academic programs focused on the study of the Philippines and/or the Filipinx experience in the diaspora. A historian by trade but storyteller by heart, Lily Ann earned her PhD in history from Northern Illinois University with specializations in Southeast Asian/Philippine history, US immigration history, and Race and Ethnicity in the US.
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