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Monica Batac

she/they/siya

Lecturer

Monica Anne Batac (she/they/siya) is currently a Lecturer at University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Social Work and completing her PhD in Social Work at McGill University. She is a critical qualitative researcher, community practitioner, writer, and educator. Her interdisciplinary research program focuses on community capacity-building and mobilizing with Filipino community members, groups, and organizations in Canada. Monica is a co-founder and co-organizer of the Filipino Canadian Social and Community Workers Network. She identifies as a second-generation Filipina/x in the Canadian diaspora, born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto).

Publications/Papers

Batac, M. (2021). “Failing” and finding a Filipina diasporic scholarly “home”: a de/colonizing autoethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(1): 62-69.

Bayley, J., Phipps, D., Batac, M., & Stevens, E. (2018). Development of a framework for knowledge mobilisation and impact competencies. Evidence & Policy, 14(4): 725-738.

Batac, M., Stohner, F. C., & Danan, K. V. (2022). From paperback to praxis: in search of Filipina/x feminisms in the diaspora. In G. J. Wilson, J. B. Acuff, & A. M Kraehe (Eds.), A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back (195-203). University of Arizona Press.

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