Christine Abagat Liboon (she/her/ella/siya)
Ph.D. in Education
Christine’s work is grounded in Filipina-American cultural epistemologies of research and evaluation and broadly focused on nonformal educational contexts related to historically minoritized and marginalized populations. She has published and presented on issues related to reciprocity, immigration, migration, research on evaluation, evaluation methodology, and mentorship rooted in equity and social justice. Christine’s dissertation research is dedicated to further understanding the concept of reciprocity in evaluation and research practice to heal systems where injustice and inequity exist. She is currently a Program Co-Chair for the Graduate Student and New Evaluators Topical Interest Group (TIG) at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and on the leadership board for the Filipino American National Historical Society-Orange County/Inland Empire (FAHNS OC-IE). In her free time, she volunteered for the Education and Cultural Center and Museum at the Kuruvungna Village Springs in West Los Angeles. Christine’s work is shaped by her identity as a second-generation child of Pilipino working-class immigrants, first-generation graduate student, her experiences teaching and working abroad, in non-formal educational programs in refugee resettlement in San Diego, California.
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Education
- Ph.D., Education – Social Research Methodology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2025
- M.A., Education – Social Research Methodology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
- B.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Select Presentations
- Liboon, C.A., Ayik, B.A., & Dorio, J.N. (In Press 2025). A Review of STEM Community Praxis: Towards Social Justice Based Program Evaluation in Education. In A. Argenal, M. Hantzopoulos, & S. Sirota (Eds.), Community Engaged Praxis in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights Education: Partnering for Transformative Change. Teacher’s College Press.
- Liboon, C. A., Gutierrez, R. A. E., & Dimagiba, A. G. (2024). Reciprocity in Research and Evaluation: Conceptualizing Utang Na Loob, Pakikipagkapwa, and Alalay as Filipina American Educational Researchers. In M.R. Goodnight & R. Hopson (Eds.), Theories Bridging Ethnography and Evaluation: Making Transformative, Intersectional, and Comparative Connections (pp. 105-132). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.