Tech l Travel l Yoga l Impact l History 🇮🇶🇵🇭Iraq-based Filipina, interested in impact-based tech solutions being developed in the Middle East, history, and women empowerment. ——————ABOUT ME———————— 👣I've traveled 76/81 provinces of the Philippines, and now I'm working my way through the world. I've spoken at the UN in NY, studied yoga in India, slept with elephants in Thailand, won the national football championship in Tajikistan, drove through the Silk Road along the border of Afghanistan, and now work in corporate innovation & mine action in Iraq. I travel, not to take photos and be seen, but to learn with all my five senses about the world and its many stories of history. —————--LOCATION—————— 🛖Currently in Erbil 🏡 Lived in the Philippines, India, Turkey, USA, Tajikistan, and Iraq. ————-LET’S CONNECT——————- 👩🏽‍💻Managing Director for Middle East & Africa, Embiggen Consulting, an innovation consulting firm. 💣Grants Manager, Shareteah Humanitarian Organization (SHO), a humanitarian mine action NGO in Iraq, that works to foster safe spaces in post-war zones through demining, victim assistance, and women empowerment. 🧞‍♀️WIP: Filipina Yoga, my personal practice of sharing trauma-informed yoga, focusing on serving internally-displaced people & women-at-risk. 🧘🏽‍♀️200hr RYT in Ashtanga & Vinyasa, trained by the Himalayan Yoga Association in Rishikesh, India. Currently, pursuing my 500hr certification w/ My Vinyasa Practice, with a focus on trauma-informed yoga, w/ a practice in Yin, Yoga Nidra, and Vinyasa. 🗞Featured in Bloomberg, CNN, Huffington Post, Business World, Rappler, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Cosmopolitan 🎤Featured as a Keynote Speaker at the Youth Assembly @ United Nations HQ in NY, TEDx University of the Philippines Manila, Youth in IT, ASEAN Young Entrepreneurs Assembly