Valerie Francisco-Menchavez is an award-winning scholar-activist, researcher, writer and educator whose academic and political work calls attention to the experiences of Filipina migrants in care work industries and their indelible abilities to form solidarities and organize with one another. Her recent book, Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis, is the inaugural book in the University of Washington Press, Critical Filipinx Studies Series, published in 2024. It centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and their strategies and practices to help each other navigate the crumbling US healthcare system. Dr. Francisco is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University where she is committed to teaching, organizing and conducting research on the topics of Filipina/o migration, transnational lives, and community-building in the United States and in the Philippines.