Former Philippine President Duterte’s Arrest and the Broader Southeast Asian War on Drugs
From 2016 to 2022, Filipinos endured endless cycles of fear under the Rodrigo Duterte Administration and his “war on drugs”...
Kyla Bernal
Kyla (she/they) will complete her undergraduate degree in History at NYU in 2026. She aspires to be a Ph.D. and J.D. student, with scholarly interests in movement and migration, invisible spaces of labor, and the sustainable, ethical, and cultural uses of land and estate. Kyla is passionate about transnational labor law and the Southeast Asian diaspora. Her works on tecno-colonialism and digital labor, accent bias in the Filipino diaspora, and analysis of Filipino classrooms perpetuating injustices have all been accepted at research conferences. She is currently working on research about collective labor of the Aeta tribe in the Philippines, and the neoliberal exploitation of domestic Filipina laborers in Saudi Arabia. She is also currently interning at the NYS Senate Chair of Committee on Labor. In Kyla’s free time, she enjoys watching the reality show “Survivor” and is convinced she could win the show.
