My body of work is to shape high-risk transitions that do not merely redistribute power, but reimagine mechanisms that allow them — interrogating innovation so that policy and institutional design serve as both compass and covenant, embedding net positive values into the scaffolding of progress before it becomes legacy. Between these are contested futurities where my curiosities and design practice lie.

Specifically, my interests span sociotechnical systems that occupy a nebulous state of becoming: artificial intelligence, food systems, and renewable energy. Each embodies transformative potential, yet risks perpetuating systemic violence without agility and foresight.

At the University of the Philippines, I am the Research Associate to the VP for Digital Transformation, where I play a key role in shaping institutional and national policy. This builds on a longstanding portfolio of research and administrative work with senior university leadership and the policy research unit CIDS since sophomore year.

Beyond, I am working in the regional startup ecosystem, where science, industry, and the government meet. I help funnel founders and technologists into pipelines, run end-to-end workplace solutions, and broker unlikely partnerships that make room for shared possibility, one conversation at a time as infrastructures take shape.

Previously, I co-founded The Ambit, seeding AI policy in Southeast Asian legislation as it wakes to technological frontiers. We worked closely with key players such as the Indonesian government and the Philippine Congress’ House Committee on ICT as advisory experts. The Ambit is the key non-state actor to position the Philippines 2nd out of 130+ countries in the 2024 AI Index for rights-based governance.

In parallel, I remain involved in the Philippines’ energy transition, leading research capacities at Youth for Climate Hope. Earlier in high school, we led strategic movement-building efforts that put to halt proposed coal-fired power plant developments in Southeast Asia’s solar power capital in 2019 and 2022.

Cebu is both where I attend university and officially reside. During the holidays, I move between Taguig and Singapore for family, or venture to other destinations overseas. Born in Bacolod, I was raised in the cultural hotspots of Negros in Silay and Dumaguete.

When withdrawing from these realms, I lift, scale mountains, listen to alternative rock and musical theatre, photograph liminality, memory, and symmetry, blog, or actually sleep.