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Ella deCastro Baron is a second generation Filipinx American professor in San Diego, California. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Last Exit, Fiction International, and more. Ella’s memoir, Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment, is a candid, ironic curriculum vitae of her ethnic upbringing, inherited faith, and chronic illness.