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OPENING PROGRAM

ALL-DAY PROGRAMMING - TIYANGGE | IKOT-TOKI | TAMBAYAN

WELCOME/OPENING PROGAM -

 Welcome Remarks - Dorothy Llariza-Tome, President, UPAA Nevada
 Opening Remarks - Daisy M. Rodriguez, President, UPAA in America
 Keynote Speech - Hon. Ma. Leonor Robredo, Philippine Vice President

DOROTHY LENORE LLARIZA-TOME
VICE-CHAIR, UPAAA ’21 GRAND REUNION & CONVENTION

DOROTHY LENORE LLARIZA-TOME is outgoing President of the UP
Alumni Association in Nevada. She is a student and facilitator of A
Course in Miracles and the Enneagram, certified Law of Attraction
Life Coach, podcast co-host in PHLV radio, co-author of two books
on self-healing and community connection. Dot taught in a Montes-
sori preschool for 14 years and was a Steiner-Waldorf parent for
seven years before coming to Las Vegas. Dot holds a master’s de-
gree in Education, major in Teaching English as Second Language
and a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities major in Comparative
Literature and Broadcast Communication from UP Visayas. She
also completed certifications in U Theory from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sci-
ence of Well-Being from Yale University.

DAISY MAGALIT RODRIGUEZ, RN, MSN, MPA
NATIONAL PRESIDENT, 2020-’21, UPAAA, INC.

DAISY MAGALIT RODRIGUEZ is a nurse educator, author and organ-
izational leader in several local and national organizations of Philippine
nurses. She is a published author of three books and book chapter co-
author of two others. In her work as organizational leader, she has gen-
erated support from the community of various charitable and social ad-
vocacy projects that benefited the community at large and the Univer-
sity of the Philippines.
Daisy holds three degrees from UP: Graduate in Nursing from UP-
PGH School of Nursing (1965), Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the
College of Nursing (1969), and Master in Nursing, College of Nursing
(1971). Additionally, she holds a second masters degree in Public Administration/Health Services
from the University of San Francisco, California. She also received a Mini-Fellowship in Ethno-
geriatrics from the Stanford Geriatric Education Center, Stanford University, California. During
her career as an educator in the US, she held faculty positions in three nursing programs at the
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Unitek College.