Founded in 2001 by Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales and her students from San Francisco State University (SFSU): Claudine Del Rosario, Kimmy Maniquis, Gwen Agustin, Tracy Buenavista, Ivan Santos, Jeff Ponferrada, Mark Bautista, Perci dela Cruz, Maricel Elacio, Christine Bernard, Christopher Rini, and Anjela Wong, created a lunchtime mentoring program at Balboa High School in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. With the high rates of Filipina/o/x and Filipina/o/x American dropout, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, gang violence, and mental health issues, Dr. Tintiangco-Cubales and her students conducted "sala" talks (conversations with students) to discuss issues that concerned them. Issues such as: identity, low numbers of Filipina/o teachers and faculty representation, the lack of Filipinas/os and Filipina/o Americans in the curriculum, and fractured sense of community, Dr. Tintiangco-Cubales and her students organized workshops on Filipina/o American her/history, Hiphop, spoken word, and theatre as a means to address these issues and develop solidarity. The interest in Ethnic Studies for Filipina/o and non-Filipina/o students began to grow and PEP students organized their classmates to create a petition to implement a Filipina/o American experience course in the spring of 2001. What started as a humble lunchtime mentoring program manifested into the Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP) becoming a year-long Filipina/o American studies class at Balboa HS. It soon expanded to the following schools: Longfellow Elementary as an after school program established in 2005; a year-long course at Philip & Sala Burton HS (2005) and James Denman MS (2008); and have partnered with professors & instructors from City College of San Francisco (2007), Skyline College (2012), and University of San Francisco (2013). The PEP high school course is a Steps-To-College and A-G Credited class, where PEP HS students can receive college credit and use towards satisfying their A-G requirements for UC and CSU applications.
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DR. ALLYSON
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She is also the co-founder and director of Community Responsive Education (CRE) and Teaching Excellence Network (TEN), two nationwide firms that support the development of responsive, equitable, and justice-driven educators. She is provided direct support to schools, districts, and organizations in many cities including San Francisco, Daly City, Oakland, Los Angeles, El Rancho, New York, Newburgh, Boston, Allentown, and Baltimore. Her most recent endeavor with CRE is the development of a community responsive wellness index that will be used in schools across the nation. In 2001, she founded Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a “barangay” that focuses on providing schools with Ethnic Studies courses and curriculum, developing radical educators, and creating resources for Filipina/x/o communities and similarly marginalized people. She has worked with several school districts throughout the nation, including the San Francisco Unified School District, to co-develop Ethnic Studies, Social Justice, and Filipino Language curriculum. She is the author of four books of curriculum and numerous articles focused on the applications of critical pedagogy, Ethnic Studies curriculum, Motherscholarship, and Pinayism. Allyson coined Pinayism in 1995 and has stayed committed to developing Pinay sisterhood and she currently sits on the board of Pinayista. She also prides herself in being a “cheerleader” who supports many people to find their sacred purpose so that they can contribute to community actualization. Allyson is also currently in the Immersion DIWA program learning to wield her wind.
Allyson is a loving partner to Val Tintiangco-Cubales, a phenomenal teacher and leader and the mother of Mahalaya, a prolific dancer and artist.
Allyson is a loving partner to Val Tintiangco-Cubales, a phenomenal teacher and leader and the mother of Mahalaya, a prolific dancer and artist.