Volunteer Project Team

CO-CREATORS / VOLUNTEERS 

Rosa Zerrudo (Iloilo, Philippines)
Founder | Co-creator
 
Known for her socially-engaged art projects, Rosa interweaves existing artistic traditions, rituals, and diverse processes through contextual exchange, cultural interventions, and participation to navigate ideas relating to trauma, healing, biodiversity, heritage preservation, and community. Rosa is a community-engaged interdisciplinary social artist with the heart of a cultural worker. Her background in AB Psychology and Masters in Educational Theater for Communities complements her meaning-making and process-oriented art practice she calls soulwork. She is co-creator and organizer of Freedom in prison or Hilway Arts project as psychosocial caregiving through the arts in collaboration with incarcerated women PDL or persons deprived of liberty in Panay. Consequently her work gave birth to the iconic Super Inday Dolls project.
 
 
Giah De los Reyes (Iloilo, Philippines)
Project/Research Assistant, Social Media Manager 
 
Giah is a mixed media artist, self-supporting student-entrepreneur and community art volunteer based in Panay Island, Philippines. She works mostly with fabric - Philippine tropical textiles, organic plant dyes, and found objects that are mostly in their rustic and decaying state. Her creative process and materials play a great role in the contextualization of her works, with her personal narratives and experiences growing up in the slums of Iloilo, which she aims to interweave through different play of forms and raw patterns that she also sees in parallel to the realities happening in society and the world at large. She was one of the grantees of Linangan Art Residency - Amuyong Program grant in 2022 and has been actively utilizing her "Katawhayan" platform to produce eco-conscious hand-crafted products and collaborates with local artisans. Aside from being Super Inday Art's volunteer artist and project manager, she also volunteers for several community art projects such as Himaya Community Climate Art in partnership with Korea SHE Foundation.
 
 
 
 
France Stohner (Montreal, Canada)
Volunteer Co-facilitator, Fundraising Organizer
 
France is a Philippine-born, Montreal-raised diasporic community worker and mental health counsellor. Committed to decolonization, she completed a Masters of Arts degree in Counselling and Spirituality, specializing in Women’s Studies, a collaborative program between Saint-Paul and the University of Ottawa. From 2011 to 2016, she was a host and content creator for the Sigaw Ng Bayan radio collective at CKUT 90.3FM. As co-lead organizer for the Pinay Power II (McGill University) and Filipino-Canadian Futures (Concordia University) conferences, she strives to highlight the importance of community dialogue while uplifting Kapwa voices. Since the pandemic she has been a Restorative Circle Keeper, creating brave spaces for women and youth to work towards more emotional and spiritual strength and growth.
 
Alma Aparece (Bohol, Philippines)
AVP Consultant, Volunteer Coordinator
 
Alma E. Aparece (Kins) from Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines is a people’s lawyer, an educator, a champion for the environment, women, students, and youth. She passionately advocates the minimal use of single-use plastics to care for the natural world, and in the workshops and activities she organizes, she strives to make this happen.  She believes that peace is possible. She dedicated 36 years of her life to social development work. For her, addressing the gaps in cognitive development is crucial to justice and peace work.  A key to nurturing regenerative development is in nurturing direct and lasting people-to-people relationships, paying attention to shifts and creative changes in the community, and lending support to community leaders in the practice of peace and justice.  Peace is possible when we enable good people to lead communities with sound and informed decisions and stand by them for truth, peace and justice.  Kins is the  Philippines and Initiative Coordinator for Friends Peace Teams-Asia West Pacific Initiative.
 
Noreen Marian Bautista (Iloilo, Philippines) 
Enterprise and Product Development Consultant
 

Noreen has been co-founding social enterprises and startups since 2010 and is a Certified Innovation Professional by the Global Innovation Management Institute. Based in Iloilo City, Philippines, she is co-founder and CEO of Panublix, a tech sourcing platform & marketplace that aims to connect designers with regenerative tropical textiles & artisan craft in Southeast Asia, starting with the Philippines. She is also Founder and Chief Igniter of SlashIgnite, a social venture studio based in Iloilo City, the former Entrepreneur-in-Residence of Iloilo Science and Technology University, and now of Ateneo de Manila University; and the External Director for Frontier Development at Leave a Nest Philippines. 

She was recognized as one of the 40 pioneer Women Social Entrepreneurs of Ashoka Philippines and S&P Global's "Women Together for a Better Normal" program. Noreen is also a Fellow of the Young Founders Programme of the Westerwelle Foundation in Berlin, Germany, as well as an alumna of the US Professional Fellows Program, the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Inititiative and the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum. Noreen holds a Masters of Science in Innovation & Business from the Asian Institute of Management. 

 

Kyla Agnes L. Ramirez (Iloilo, Philippines) 
Volunteer Researcher / Documentor 
 
Kyla  is a Political Science student at West Visayas State University. She is the founder and presently the chairperson of the student-led organization for culture history and heritage called WVSU - MAARAM, an organization who has implemented various advocacies and immersions for culture and history. She was exposed to field research and documentation on the Panay Culture, Traditions and Indigenous Peoples, as research assistant and documentor, and conducted various workshops and activities in various Panay cultural. She has been an intern at the 45th International Conference for Traditional Music at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 2019, and an Ethos Youth Fellow. Ramirez also presented papers in various International conferences on culture, with papers centering on the Panay Culture and Indigenous Peoples. She is also a research assistant to Dr. Alicia P. Magos, and has been involved in publication of Panay-Guimaras Traditional Knowledge Systems, the Cultural Mapping of Antique, and the video documentary - Wisdom Keepers of the Earth: Babaylans of Panay.

Bureau of Jail Management and Penology

JSINSP Imee S. Lopera
BJMP /ICDJ-FD Warden
(Iloilo, Philippines)