Emilie S. Tumale (she/her/hers) is the Program Coordinator of the New York Southeast Asia Network after having worked as the Project Coordinator for Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU. Emilie recently earned her Ph.D. in Sociology of Education at NYU Steinhardt. Hailing from the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, her doctoral studies and her involvement in various Filipino American organizations in NYC allowed her to learn more about the AAPI communities in the New York Metropolitan area. Her dissertation was on Filipino American college students and their ethnic identity development in relation to their geographic contexts. She has been proud to call Queens home for the past four years.