Tony DelaRosa

Tony DelaRosa (he/siya) is an award-winning Filipino American anti-bias & anti-racist educator, motivational speaker, spoken word poet, racial equity strategist, researcher and community-engaged scholar. He received his Masters at Harvard University in Arts Education and Non-Profit Management and is pursuing his PhD at UW-Madison Wisconsin focusing on ethnic studies policy and cross-racial solidarity.

His work has been featured on Hulu, NPR, Harvard Ed Magazine, the Smithsonian, Columbia University's Hechinger Report,  Hyphen Magazine: Asian American Unabridged and elsewhere. He has co-founded NYC's first Asian American teacher support, development, and retention initiative called AATEND under NYC Men Teach, the NYC DOE, and Office of the Mayor.  He served as a Director of Leadership Development at Teach for America coaching teachers and leading racial equity strategy. Today, he coaches CEOs and Principals on crafting and refining their short-term and long-term racial equity strategy. Lastly, he is writing a book with Jossey-Bass Publishing (WILEY) called "Teaching the Invisible Race," which will provide practical ways on embodying a pro-Asian American lens, while combating anti-Asian American violence, racism, and hate for PK-12 educators. (Learn more about the author here).