Mayo Buenafe-Ze
Program DirectorMayo Buenafe-Ze is a bilingual immigrant and multi-ethnic indigenous Filipina who has lived most of her life between the Philippines and California. She is a scholar/educator/researcher, food and cultural events experience curator, and community organizer who aims to decolonize education and support youth leadership and development. Since 2007, she has been in research and academia in the Philippines, Netherlands, and the U.S. She has done ethnographic studies with the Ifugao peoples from the...
Education:
Leiden University (the Netherlands), PhD (ABD) in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, 2021, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MA in Anthropology (Specialization: International Human Rights and Diversity), 2012, University of the Philippines - Baguio, BA in Social Sciences (Major in Social Anthropology; Minor in Political Science), cum laude, 2007