Board Members
Dr. Romina Quezada, Co-Chair
Romina Quezada Morales, from Mexico, researches the participation of Indigenous peoples in education. Her lines of work are public diplomacy toward Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in global education, and human rights in Indigenous education. Over the past few years, Romina was Rapporteur of the Indigenous Studies Seminar, Teaching Assistant of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights MOOC, and currently assists the Indigenous peoples’ rights program, all at Columbia University. Romina’s regional focus in recent years has been Latin America; she also holds a specialization in North East Asia. Romina has written reports for international NGOs and reviewed Indigenous knowledge papers for publishing houses like Routledge. Romina holds a Ph.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Dr. Prem Phyak, Co-Chair
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Dr. Prem Phyak is a scholar and teacher from the Yaakthung (Limbu) Indigenous community of Eastern Nepal. He is an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, having completed a PhD at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and MA at the University College London. His research on Indigenous language education, policy, activism, and agency in South Asia is extensively published. He is also a member of the Indigenous Science Network, which promotes Indigenous knowledge, learning and teaching. Most importantly, Dr. Phyak prioritises working with grassroots activists and policymakers in Nepal to create space for Indigenous languages, knowledges and cultures in education and public spaces.
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Preeti Koli, Treasurer/Communications Officer
Preeti is a final year PhD candidate at the School of Education Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India. Her dissertation, "Identity, Agency & Activism: A Narrative Inquiry Of Dalit Women Activists' Experiences in Higher Education in India", brings together the narratives of Dalit Women activists' experiences in higher education, which have been least explored in scholarly literature, thereby putting forth the aspect agency that Dalit women carry. Apart from this, her research interests more broadly include issues related to intersectionality, caste, gender, education and higher education in the everyday lives of Dalits.
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Anna Patricia Rodriguez-Carranza, Secretary
Anna Patricia Rodriguez-Carranza is a faculty member of the Music Education Department, College of Music at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her current work involves teaching preschool music education, foundations of music education, and classroom ensemble music courses at the undergraduate level. She currently serves as Treasurer of the Philippine Society for Music Education (PSME). Her collaborative and interdisciplinary projects include the video "Teachable Moments sa Tahanan" (MAPEH), a part of the Office of the Vice President's Bayanihan e-Skwela series launched during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recently launched Bamboo Music Instruments Teaching Modules for Elementary and High School, a collaborative project of the Department of Science and Technology, Philippine Normal University, University of the Philippines College of Engineering, Philippine Society for Music Education, and University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology. Her other research include "Living in the Moment: The Essence of Ethnographic Fieldwork for Teaching Music and Dance in the Elementary and Secondary Levels" and her master's thesis - a historiography on the 100 years of undergraduate education at the UP College of Music, framed using the lens of Philippine identity. She is also the College's Quality Assurance Officer, having recently finished the 4th Asean University Network-Quality Assurance Training Workshop for Accomplishing Programme Assessment.
She is interested in sustainable Indigenous child care and motherhood practices, which she wishes to research and incorporate in the cutthroat world of academia.
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