Katherine Nasol

Position Title

Graduated 2023

Research Interests: Displacement, Forced Migration, Workers Rights, Asian American Studies, and Citizenship

Awards:

Grants & Fellowships

Mellon Public Scholars Fellowship, Davis Humanities Institute. February 2019. Awarded $7500 to work with AAPI Women LEAD and Migrante Napa Solano to develop and disseminate research on violence against Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States.
Public Service Scholars Fellowship, Stanford Haas Center for Public Service. Awarded $5000 to disseminate honors thesis findings with the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns, an organization supporting trafficked Filipino workers in the United States. June 2015.
Program on Human Rights Fellowship, Stanford Program on Human Rights. Awarded $5000 to implement community based research on domestic workers rights in Hong Kong. June 2014.
Braden Stanford Storytelling Grant. Awarded $2500 to gather interviews of Filipino and Filipino American youth on their experiences in accessing public education. November 2014.
Community Research Summer Internship, Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Awarded $5000 to conduct independent community based research on trafficked Filipino workers in New York City. June 2013.

Education:

Stanford University, Stanford, California, September 2011 - June 2015
Bachelors of Arts, International Relations, Minor and Honors Distinction in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
- Honors Thesis: “Balikbayan Boxes: Exploring Legal Status and Citizenship of Trafficked Filipino Migrant Workers in the United States.”

Publications:

Abelada, N., Katherine Nasol, and Mikayla Konefta.“Gender Justice in the Filipinx Community” in Harvard Asian American Policy Review, April 2019
Nasol, K. Tracing Trafficking Throughout the Migrant’s Journey. Migrants Review: Research and Essays on Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, 2: 65 – 74. Republished in Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, 7: 55 - 65. November 2014.

Presentations:

“Transnational Community Organizing and Filipina Activism.” Pinay Power II Conference. McGill University. April 2019.
“Pinay Activism in the Silicon Valley: Finding Place amidst Displacement, Gentrification, and Imperialist Technologies.” Pinay Power II Conference. McGill University. April 2019.
“Balikbayan Boxes: Exploring Legal Status and Citizenship of Trafficked Filipino Migrant Workers in the United States.” Research with a Public Purpose Conference. Stanford Haas Center for Public Service. June 2015.
“Balikbayan Boxes: Exploring Legal Status and Citizenship of Trafficked Filipino Migrant Workers in the United States.” Honors Thesis Colloquium. Stanford Center on Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. June 2015.
“Tracing Trafficking Throughout the Migrant Journey.” Stanford Engaged Scholarship Conference. Stanford Center on Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. December 2014.
“Identities and Transnational Resistance in the Filipino Diaspora.” Pilipino American Student Union Presentation. Stanford Center for Ethics in Society. September 2014.
“People Before Profit: Race, Migration, Trafficking, and the Experiences of Filipino Migrant Workers,” Community Based Research Summer Fellowship Symposium. Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. September 2013.

Policy Briefs:

Nasol, K. and Roy B. Taggueg. “How to Solve California’s Housing Crisis” in Scholars Strategy Network, April 2019.
Nasol, K. “2019 Filipino Policy Agenda.” Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies. February 2019
Truong, A. and Katherine Nasol. “Ethnic Studies.” Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies. January 2019
Abelada, N., Katherine Nasol, and Mikayla Konefta.“Gender Justice in the Filipinx Community.” Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies. November 2018.
Nasol, K. and Roy Taggueg. “Proposition 10: Housing Justice in the Filipinx Community.” Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies. October 2018.