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Tony DelaRosa

Co-I of the USAP Tayo Lab on Filipino Well-Being and Politics, UW-Madison Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chapter Member: Wisconsin SSN

About Tony

DelaRosa's research focuses on how education policy impacts the racial literacy of education actors and how politics correlates to the well-being of Filipina/x/os. DelaRosa's research is interdisciplinary as it includes: critical race theory, Du Boisian sociology, racial literacy, education policy, organizational theory, Critical Filipinx Studies, and Critical Race Theory. He is the cofounder of NYC Men Teach Asian American Teacher initiative. Lastly, he wrote an award-winning book called "Teaching the Invisible Race: Embodying a Pro-Asian American Lens in Schools" with Jossey-Bass.

Contributions

In the News

Opinion: "Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Should Last Well Beyond Halftime and Extend to Classrooms," Tony DelaRosa, The Hechinger Report, February 10, 2026.
Opinion: "Why Coalitions Aren’t Just for Political Campaigns," Tony DelaRosa, Harvard Graduate School of Education, August 31, 2021.
Opinion: "Coronavirus Doesn’t Discriminate — Let’s Separate the Myths From the Reality," Tony DelaRosa, The Hechinger Report, March 10, 2020.
Opinion: "This Boston Teacher Makes “The Messy Process of Learning” Safe for Students at Risk," Tony DelaRosa, The Hechinger Report, April 13, 2017.

Publications

Teaching the Invisible Race: Embodying a Pro-Asian American Lens in Schools (Jossey-Bass Wiley Publishing, September 2023).

Provides a how-to-guide to help teachers and administrators think and act within a school to embody a pro-Asian American lens and combat anti-Asian hate in their schools.

"Lessons of 'Radical Imagination': What the Filipinx Community Can Learn from the Black Community" Asian American Policy Review 28 (2018).

Explores the concept of "radical imagination" in both the Filipinx American and Black communities and how this concept can create practices that improve the lives of marginalized communities. Challenges Filipino/a/x American policy makers to embody a radical imagination lens to move from a state of survival to thriving.