Writing
I write on climate education, indigenous knowledge as pedagogy, post-conflict policy, and human rights in Southeast Asia. My research has been published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Yale Law School, Yale University's Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. My undergraduate journalism, including the first report on the assault of Vilma Kari for CNN, covered the Black Lives Matter movement in New Haven, Filipino-American hate crimes during the pandemic, the Philippine response to COVID-19, and the Bangsamoro peace process.
Research and Policy
SALAM SA BANGSAMORO
An Exploration of Violence Mitigation Strategies against Salafi-Jihadist Groups in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
Yale University Senior Honours Thesis, 2024
Recipient of the Charles W. Clarke Prize in Comparative Politics, Yale's highest prize in the field. The first in its field to demonstrate the effectiveness of development programmes as a means of preventing conflict recurrence in the Bangsamoro context.
THE FORGOTTEN WAR ON TERROR
How the United States Overmilitarized Counterterrorism in the Philippines
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Defense360, January 2022
PATHWAYS TO PROTECTION
A Report Calling for Immediate Solutions to the Ongoing Destruction of the Yazidi Community in Sinjar
Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
Co-developed the human rights mapping tool tracking the treatment of human rights defenders in Iraq and Syria. Research supported by the Kirby Simon International Human Rights Fellowship at Yale Law School.
BUHAY BAKWIT
Artwork and Entrepreneurship as Tools of Agency Reclamation for Marawi City's Internally Displaced People Six Years after the Siege
Yale Law School Human Rights Capstone, 2023
The month-long IDP-driven exhibit and trade fair reopened the Congressional inquiry on Marawi rehabilitation mismanagement.
FROM PUBLIC RELATIONS PROFESSIONAL TO COFFEE VENDOR
How the Blockade in Gaza Is Pushing Professionals to Unemployment
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, 2022
Authored as Executive Office Intern under the Deputy Commissioner General, Jerusalem.
Journalism
Over 100 published pieces between 2020 and 2022 across Rappler, the Yale Daily News, MindaNews, ABS-CBN, the Yale Globalist, and CNN. Selected pieces below.
Klima Publications
Through Klima, I author and co-author institutional publications on climate education, indigenous knowledge as pedagogy, and Global South climate education infrastructure, including the Klima Q1 2026 Progress Report and White Paper No. 1: The Climate Education Imperative. The full Klima publications archive is available at klimaintl.org/reports.
Forthcoming
Master of Studies dissertation on integrated food systems and conflict prevention in Manobo communities, Sultan Kudarat, University of Cambridge, anticipated 2028.
The Klima Karavan peer-reviewed journal article, the first comprehensive Filipino climate-education access study across all seventeen Philippine regions, anticipated December 2026.
Long-form essays on Filipino-led climate education, the Bangsamoro peace process as a model for climate adaptation, and decolonising the IPCC for Global South pedagogy, throughout 2026 and 2027.