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SESSION #3 - COLLABORA TION: Working Together

What iniƟaƟves emerged from the challenges of the Ɵmes? (culture, OFW, etc.)

MODERATOR

CƒÙʽ®Äƒ Eݦç›Ùك CʽÊÙÄ, UPAAA Board of Director,
worked for Philippine pioneering Informa on Technology companies before
she re red and migrated to the US in 2004. While teaching at universi es in
Sea le, she met and married Bill and they cruised North America full‐ me in
an RV for eight years. Now, she maintains a blog, Cruising Past 70, and writes
bi‐monthly for the online magazine Travel Awaits while they travel the world.
Carol published her first travel book in 2015, Carolina: Cruising to an Ameri‐
can Dream, and five years later its sequel, Cruising Past Seventy: It’s Not Only
about Outer Journeys. It’s Also about Inner Ones. Carol has degrees of BS
Math (1971), MBA (1982), and Doctorate in Public Administra on (all but dis‐
serta on, 2003) from UP Diliman.

PANELISTS

EÙ®‘ C. E½ÄƒÙ, Tك—› CÊÃîÝÝ®ÊěÙ, arrived in Los Angeles on
July 2019 and currently heads the Philippine Trade and Investment Center
in Los Angeles (PTIC‐LA), an a ached agency to the Philippine Consulate
General in Los Angeles. This is his fourth overseas assignment with the De‐
partment of Trade and Industry a er being posted in Kuala Lumpur, Ma‐
laysia, Bangkok, Thailand, and Dubai, UAE. PTIC‐LA is mandated to pro‐
mote export products and services from the Philippines as well as encour‐
age investments from the Southwestern corner of the US. Eric received his
BA Communica on Research degree in 1998 from the UP Diliman College
of Mass Communica on. He is joined in LA by his wife, Rachelle, and his
two sons, Mark and Nathaniel.

AÙî EòƒÄ¦›½ Nçòƒ½ P›Çƒ (“LabA Armi” for short), is a
graduate of Bachelor of Arts in History in UP Diliman (2004) and
Master of Arts in Islamic Studies (2008). She served as professor of
History from 2004‐2013 in UP Los Baños, UP Manila, and De La Salle
University. She headed the Division of History in UPLB from 2008‐
2010. She was also appointed as Chief of Research, Publica on, and
Heraldry Division of the Na onal Historical Commission of the Philip‐
pines in 2012. From 2015‐2017, Armi was called on a mission by the
Philippine Department of Na onal Defense to lead the retrieval and
digi za on of documents about World War II in the Philippines
stored in the US Archives in Washington DC and Maryland. In 2018,
she was appointed as Labor A aché by Department of Labor and
Employment Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III. In August 2019, she pioneered and headed the se ng up
of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office at Los Angeles, USA and put up systems and work procedures
for the newly‐established Post.