Filipino American Scholar Dawn Mabalon Leaves Us at Age 45

ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND -- I’m crestfallen, recovering from the news that my friend Dawn Mabalon, a tenured professor and scholar in U.S. History at San Francisco State University, specializing in Filipinos in the American Labor movement, has died.

Dawn was a bright, energetic ball of fire who took American Filipinos and U.S. history and fused it with an activist's passion that empowered the ignored and enlightened the ignorant.