Education

EDUCATION

• Immaculate Conception Academy of Manila – Elementary and high school
• St. Paul College of Manila – Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Major in Clinical Psychology (Pre-med), Dean’s List
• Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA – AB Fashion Design, 1985,Top 5 of the class.  Returned to the Philippines for the EDSA Revolution.
• St. Scholastica’s College, Manila – MA in Humanities, Major in Women’s Studies, earned Units

TRAININGS

• Market Research
• Personnel Administration
• Human Resource Management
• Records Management
• United Management System (MBA for United Laboratoties, Inc.)
• Assessment Center (Recruitment and Promotions Systems;  Targeted Interview, In-Basket Case, etc.)
• CASA GAL /COURT AD LITEM-Ateneo Law School and the Supreme Court
• Upward Bound-Dr. Lourdes Vega (Formerly with DARE), Drug Rehabilitation and Attitudinal Training
• Poetry Writing-Ateneo University
• Scriptwriting-Star Cinema, Ken Rotcop, Nestor U. Torre, Film Academy of the Philippines

AWARDS

• First Place Elocution Contest; wrote her own piece “Tao, Gumising Ka”
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Short Story for Children, Second Place, 1997, “May Lugar ba sa Langit and Asong Batik-batik?” (Currently in the process of pre- publication as Children’s book series on values for age level 12 years old and above)
• Ka Amado Poetry Contest, Second Place, 1997
• Pitchmart Scriptwriting Contest, Finalist, 1997
• Catholic Mass Media Awards for Best Feature Story, Finalist, 2000

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Invited Speaker in various forums and conducted recollections: St. Scholastica’s College, Sacred Heart College, Miriam College, University of the Philippines, Unicef, NCRFW, Gabriela, etc.; before the Congresswomen for the passage of the Anti-VAWC; in the joint workshop/seminar for the department heads of government agencies by the NCRFW and Unicef to improve the system and service in women’s intervention in women’s desks.  She was also part of the creation of the Nicole Information Bureau in 2006.

Topics: Anatomy of Abuse; Law on Marital Rape; Sexual Harassment; Psycho-Spiritual Conversion (capital sins, gifts of the Spirit, Forms of Prayer, Catholic Meditation); Marian Dogma; Mother Mary’s Relevance Today; Discernment of good versus evil; The Will to Will; Dark Night of the Soul; Upward Bound

PERSONAL ADVOCACIES

Project “Kulay Malaya” for street children

Project “Lambong” for street families

Devotion to the Virgin of the Poor, organized processions and vigils

for the consecration of the country

March Na! An Ode to Women, 2007 Women’s Month, organized breakfast forum

and all-men Fun Run

Men for Women Movement, 2008 Women’s Month, organized Race Walk,

Signature Campaign among men to support “Say No to Violence Against Women.”

Designed and conducted Psycho-Spritual Counseling and Healing

Catholic Meditation, (Carmelite)

Volunteer Teacher for the Secondary Night School, St. Scholastica’s College

In College

Organized a theater group with friends “Dilat Na Bulag” Foundation comprising the Out-of-school youth, juvenile delinquents, Drug Users

• Produced and directed  Stage Plays; used theater to raise social awareness against martial rule
• Conducted theater workshops in depressed areas in Manila

TRAVELS

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, USA.

The world is my school; my experiences, my teachers. I don’t memorize the bible; I live it.