Dr. Cirian Villavicencio has been a faculty member at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California since 2012. He currently serves as professor and co-chair of the Department of Political Science. He helped co-found the Empowering Positive Initiative for Change and Asian Pacific Islander American Empowerment learning communities. A champion for diversity and inclusion, he served on the Cultural Awareness Program and Student Success & Equity committees. He also served as the president of the Asian Pacific Islander American Staff Association and co-chair of the Caucus for Asian Pacific Equity. He was integral in securing the Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) federal collaborative and institutional grants to support the needs of his district’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) students. Dr. Villavicencio is a recipient of San Joaquin Delta College’s Distinguished Faculty Award and is a Stanford Fellow focused on internationalizing curriculum and design for higher education institutions.

Active in the community, Dr. Villavicencio served as a staffer for the California Asian American Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus in the State Capital and as an elected delegate to the California Democratic State and Democratic National Conventions. He also served on the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs where he served as commission chair and helped pass data disaggregation and human trafficking legislation and helped advocate for Filipino WWII Veterans to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. He also led the advocacy effort to create the AANHPI Student Achievement Program for California Community Colleges and California State Universities to support the needs of first-generation, low-income AANHPI students. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, a master's of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California, and an Ed.D. from the University of Wyoming.