about
Adrienne Hidalgo Esguerra is the eldest daughter of generation 1.5 immigrants from the Philippines mothering mothering 5 cis males ages 2, 8, 16, 18 and 25 (three nephews and 2 bio children). Born and raised on occupied Muwekma Ohlone land known as San Francisco, Ca and raises her family in a multigenerational home.
Adrienne shares her lived experience as a mama, mother figure and educator by offering education programs for parents in her program or within school communities.
She founded Afterschooling Better because as a parent and parent figure she was seeking parenting support and community for her blended multigenerational immigrant family impacted by the carceral system and deportation but did not find platforms or resources that addressed or validated this intersectionality.
In 2019 she volunteered to co-facilitate an antiracist parenting group through Asian American Justice Innovation Lab (AAJIL) and discovered there are so many other BIPOC parents, specifically 1st and 2nd generation Asian Americans, who were seeking similar parenting support. She began speaking on panels, at conferences and universities. The need for social and racial justice, collective and intergenerational healing, reparenting and active decolonization from oppressive practices in our families became clear.
What also emerged was the desire to celebrate JOY. The type of individual and collective joy and liberation felt by others who are on a similar path of heightened consciousness. These celebrations are sweeter in community. The community had spoken. We need a space.
Adrienne attended SFUSD K-12; San Francisco State University and holds a Multiple Subject teaching credential, BA in Liberal Studies, emphasis in Children and Family Studies; Master’s in Education, focus on curriculum design, and is a lifelong student of ethnic studies. She has spent the past 15+ years serving communities of first generation college students; pediatric patients and their families in a hospital school setting and has been a Catholic school educator.
She is a Certified Parenting Practitioner and her practice is rooted in trauma informed, healing centered education through the lens of ethnic studies and decolonization.
She has 2 dogs, hella plants, runs marathons, loves eating food cooked in her Kampanganan home and has recently taken up jump roping as a new way to move her body.
afterschooling
verb
Supplementing your child's education in the after school hours because their school does not address:
systemic oppressions
teach robust ethnic studies
racial identity development and intersectionality
acknowledge impact of generational trauma
support critically and culturally responsive education of different learners
celebrate the joy of being uniquely YOU