Roy Taggueg

Roy B. Taggueg Jr. (RJ) is an undocumented, queer, Filipinx PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is currently serving as the director of research at the UC Davis Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies, and is part of the inaugural cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars Program. As part of his work for the Bulosan Center, Taggueg is currently managing the Filipin[x]s Counts! Filipinx/Filipinx-American Health and Well-Being Survey and Kwentuhan Series. Taggueg’s research focuses primarily on using community-engaged, mixed-method strategies to analyze the experiences of Filipinxs in California as they endure, evolve, and adapt to the dynamics of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.