CIA, CISA

• Retired city planner, with former positions as Associate Director of Planning City of Surrey, Manager of Policy and Corporate Strategies City of Richmond.

• Chair, City of Vancouver Cultural Communities Advisory Committee; Co-Convenor Vancouver Immigrant Partnership Program.

• Co-founder and Founding Executive Director, Multicultural Helping House Society.

• CEO, Minerva Foundation for BC Women.

• Co-founder, Canadian Filipino Net, an online Canada-wide magazine about Filipino Canadians.

• Co-founder Anyone Can Act Theatre (ACAT), a community performing arts collective.

• Author of Stumbling through Paradise: A Feast of Mercy for Manuel del Mundo a novel about the immigrant journey of three generations of a Filipino family through Canada.

• City of Vancouver Civic Merit Awardee.

• Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for Community Service.