Our Team
We are a collaboration of Filipino scholars and artists from different disciplinary backgrounds and institutions.
Dr Angela Minas
University of ManchesterDr Angela Minas is as social scientist based at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Her work sits at the intersection of climate change and global development – helping to inform policy and practice around access to energy, agricultural livelihoods, resilience, and low-carbon transformations – with a focus on communities and groups that are often underrepresented.
Dr Justin See
Dr Justin See is a lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His research interrogates how dominant modes of climate change adaptation (e.g. planned resettlement, climate buffer infrastructure, nature-based solutions) generate injustices while advancing community-led pathways to sustainable development.
Email: justin.see@unimelb.edu.au
University of Melbourne
Dr Ginbert Cuaton
Lingnan University Hong KongDr Ginbert Cuaton is a Research Assistant Professor at Lingnan University. His expertise is on post-disaster recovery and development research, and has worked on a number of climate and disaster research projects in Southeast Asia. His works have been cited in the 2022 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and the UNFAO report on Women and Men in Small-scale Aquaculture and Fisheries in Asia.
Email: ginbertcuaton@ln.edu.hk
Antonio Salazar, Jr.
University of the Philippines Email: adsalazar2@up.edu.ph
Princess Brazil
University of the Philippines Princess Brazil is an instructor in the Department of Literature and Media Arts at the University of the Philippines Tacloban. Her academic and research work centers on environmental humanities and climate-resilient development in Eastern Visayas, examining how cultural narratives, literature, and media drive environmental justice and community resilience.
Email: plbrazil@up.edu.ph
Leandro Piga
University of the Philippines 
Email: lgpiga@up.edu.ph
Sigmund Tarrayo
University of the Philippines Sigmund Fletcher D. Tarrayo is a Political Science faculty member at the University of the Philippines Tacloban. His research focuses on gender and politics, DRRM, and climate-resilient sustainable development in Eastern Visayas. He has presented work on women's political agency, youth movements, and community-based disaster resilience in national and international conferences
Email: sdtarrayo@up.edu.ph
Dakila Yee
University of Canberra
University of the Philippines Dakila Yee is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy, Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. He is also assistant professor (on study leave) at the University of the Philippines Tacloban His research interest is on environmental populism, low-carbon transitions and environmental discourses. He has published articles on the urban political ecology of disaster reconstruction in the Philippines.
Email: dakila.yee@canberra.edu.au
Joyce Sumayod
University of the Philippines Joyce Danhel Sumayod is a Cum Laude graduate in Economics from UP Tacloban. She is a Research Assistant for Project Ahon, supporting climate-resilient development research, and a Teaching Assistant on a US-based math education platform, with experience in economic valuation research, econometrics, and GIS-based spatial analysis.
Email: jsumayod@up.edu.ph
Christopher Bacungan
Eastern Visayas State University
Christopher Bacungan earned a graduate degree in economics and now serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU). His teaching spans Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, and Economic Research. His research focuses on health and population studies as well as environmental economics. Before joining EVSU, Bacungan was Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of San Carlos (USC) from 2016-2019.
Email: ccbacungan@evsu.edu.ph
Bert Jameson Daria
Eastern Samar State University
Bert Jameson D. Daria serves as the Program In-Charge of the Bachelor of Secondary Education (Social Studies) at Eastern Samar State University – Guiuan Campus. His scholarly work focuses on teacher education, civic engagement, and community-based learning. Beyond campus instruction, he actively serves as a local field collaborator on research initiatives in climate resilience and gender-based violence prevention.
Email: bjamesondaria.essu@gmail.com
Camille Rose Carl Mendoza
University of Melbourne
Camille Rose Carl R. Mendoza is a PhD candidate and Wattle Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an associate professor at Pampanga State Agricultural University in the Philippines. Her research focuses on youth participation in social movements and climate education, empowering young people as agents of change.
Email: mendoza.c@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Voltaire Oyzon (Linguistics), Leyte Normal University
Dr George Borrinaga (History), University of San Carlos
Dr Aldo Lim (Online Communities), University of the Philippines Los Baños
Dr Elaine Llarena (Risk Communication), University of the Philippines Los Baños
Dr Manuel de Vera (Public Policy), Asian Institute of Management
Collaborators
Hariel Nalda, visual artist, illustrator
J.T. Sustento-Bacsa, storyteller
Tofu Creatives, storyteller
Sirang, theatre group