Valerie is in her third year in the sociology program at CUNY, The Graduate Center. Her interests include transnationalism and diaspora with a special interest on the Philippines and migrant issues, gender and labor, and globalization. In the past years in the program, she has directed a participatory action research project with Filipino immigrant and Filipino American youth about sexuality and sexual health funded by the Ford Foundation. In collaboration with youth and youth organizers, we found that sexuality education must consider the multiple dimensions of immigration, race, class and gender in developing alternative sexuality education models. The research project assisted in creating sexuality education youth programs for and guided by Filipino youth in Queens. Currently, she is working on a project with Filipino immigrant women working as domestic workers in New York City. She has won the Sue Rosenberg Zalk Travel award from the Women’s Studies Certificate Program to examine the transnationality of Filipino immigrant women’s lives by going to the Philippines in the Fall of 2009.