David Michael San Juan
David Michael M. San Juan is a Filipino Marxist writer, activist, and professor. He was awarded the title of Mananaysay ng Taon in 2009 and Makata ng Taon (Poet of the Year) in 2010 by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.
San Juan graduated with a Bachelor in Secondary Education, major in Filipino, magna cum laude, from Bulacan State University and a Master of Arts in Filipino from the Philippine Normal University. He later earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Southeast Asian Studies from Centro Escolar University.
Career
San Juan is an associate professor in the Filipino/Philippine Studies Department at De La Salle University. He served as the 4th congressional nominee of the ACT Teachers Partylist during the 2016 elections, where the party secured two seats in the Philippine Congress.
Awards
As a writer, San Juan won various competitions and was chosen Mananaysay ng Taon in 2009 and Makata ng Taon (Poet of the Year) in 2010 by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. He was also a finalist in a 2009 climate change-themed essay writing contest organized by the World Bank
Research
As a researcher, he is a staunch critic of the Philippine government's Labor Export Policy and K to 12 scheme. He wrote a popular essay on "Noynoying" which was translated in French. In 2012, he presented a paper on "wang-wang" which was declared the Philippines' "Salita ng Taon" in a conference organized by the Filipinas Institute of Translation. In 2014, he co-presented a paper on "endo" with John Kelvin R. Briones, which was declared as the Philippines' 2nd Word of the Year then.