Time
Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2023
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
PST
Location
Who is Invited
The Department of Ethnic Studies invites all students, faculty and staff members to meet our candidate, Mayo Buenafe-Ze, for the tenure-track position with emphasis of Asian American Studies. This is a non-formal open forum to ask our candidate any questions or get to know the individual.
Biography
Mayo Buenafe-Ze (she/they/siya) is a bilingual immigrant, genderqueer, multi-ethnic Indigenous Filipina (Ifugao, Itneg, Tagalog, Ilokano, Fujian Chinese) who has lived most of her life between the Philippines and California. She is a cultural strategist, cultural diversity scholar and researcher, equity educator and inter-generational mentor, food and cultural events experience curator, and community consultant.
Mayo has used their foundations as an Applied Cultural Anthropologist and Ethnic Studies scholar to not only become a program director, professor/instructor, and researcher for over 15 years, she continues to be a community cultural strategist, educator, and facilitator for programs which focus on empowering transitional age youth (13-24 years old). She has worked in various sectors of the food business/industry, campaigns for Environmental and Climate Justice, curates' food and cultural events for the community, and collaborates with community-based organizations which provide programs for collective healing. With specializations in Indigenous knowledge systems and practices, international human rights and diversity, food and water sovereignty, Mayo's teaching and research philosophy is centered on decolonization and indigeneity, intersectional social justice, strengths-based trauma-informed equity-aligned education, and grassroots community movements focused on transformative justice and collective liberation.
Their aim is to decolonize education and research by centering Indigenous knowledge systems and practices and supporting youth leadership and development through intergenerational community-based mentorship.
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