Congratulations to Alfonso Ralph Mendoza Manalo (Global Asia Studies Major, Public Policy Major (co-op), Critical Migration Studies Minor) on the recent publication of his poems and visual art project about Philippine Boys’ Love on Hardwire: the Undergraduate Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies. The publication is based on his final project from WSTD30H3/GASD30H3 with Prof Shana Ye. Read his work in the latest issue at https://sds.utoronto.ca/research/undergraduate-journal/.
Alfonso is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Scarborough, majoring in Co-op Public Policy and Global Asia Studies and minoring in Critical Migration Studies. He currently works as an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy Advisor and as an Ad-hoc Race-based Data Collection policy Advisor for the RCMP, a Research Trainee for UofT’s Asia Institute under Professor Rachel Silvey, and as a Research Assistant for Professor Julie Moreau at the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science. He has also held various research roles across the public and non-for profit sector, including the Richard Charles-Lee Asian Pathways Research Lab at the Asian Institute, the RCMP’s Information Management Branch, the Scarborough Campus Students Union – Racialized Students Collective, the Filipino Centre Toronto, and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations. Some of the topics he is passionate about include Filipinx and Southeast Asian Studies, Race and Racism, Public Administration and Policy Making, and Queer Studies. His articles can also be found at Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies and Re:Locations Journal of the Asia Pacific World.