Congratulations to Alex Mabanta - a CSEAS affiliated graduate student - who has received a 2021-22 Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement for his public service!
Alex is a Ph.D. student in Jurisprudence and Social Policy in Berkeley Law School. He is the current Chair of the Filipinx and Philippine Studies Working Group, which is supported by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and affiliated with CSEAS. He also received a CSEAS Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship this year for Filipino language study, and is the incoming GETSEA Grad Council. The Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium, of which CSEAS is a member, is based at Cornell University, and works to support graduate education in Southeast Asian Studies in the U.S.