My body of work cultivates enabling environments where key players from science, government, and industry can cooperatively respond to high-risk transitions with foresight, focusing on critical windows when net positive values can still be embedded into the scaffolding of progress before they become legacy. My creative practice and curiosities converge between contested futurities, where what I build and design threads through competing visions of what might emerge.

Specifically, my interests span artificial intelligence, food systems, and renewable energy. Each embodies transformative potential, yet risks perpetuating systemic violence without agility and alignment.

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

In the regional startup ecosystem, I help funnel founders and technologists into pipelines, run end-to-end workplace solutions, and broker unlikely partnerships across sectors 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.

All these trace back to years in tropical conservation work since high school, where I continue to learn from landscapes, ecosystems, and grassroot communities. Born in Bacolod, I was raised in Silay and Dumaguete. Cebu is where I now attend university and officially reside. During the holidays, I move between Taguig and Singapore for family, or venture to other destinations overseas.

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.