Juanita Tamayo Lott will be participating in a book reading in Vallejo, California, on Sunday, April 26, 2009. She will be reading from her latest publication, Common Destiny.
Lott was one of the first Filipina American writers emerging from the San Francisco Kearny Street Workshop in the 1970s with creative writings featured in Liwanag, Flips: A Filipino-American Anthology, and The American Poetry Review. For almost four decades, she has authored or edited works for scholarly, professional, and lay audiences. They range widely from Diwang Pilipino, U.C, Davis, 1971 through Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and the National Institutes of Health, 1986, Discovering Motherhood, Mothers at Home, 1991, Asian American Almanac Gale Research, Inc. 1995, Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity, Sage Publications, 1997, and the Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, 1999- 2007.
Her previous books include Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities (Alta Mira Press, 1998) and Spotlight on Heterogeneity: The Federal Standards for Racial and Ethnic Classification (National Academy Press, 1996). Juanita is founding co-chair of the first Pilipino Studies Program in the United States in 1969 at San Francisco State University, an officer of the American Statistical Association, and served on the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program's Filipino American Centennial Commemoration Committee. A daughter of the pioneer generation of Filipino Americans, she graduated from San Francisco State University, cum laude, and the University of Chicago.
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