Win Larosa

Win as they call her, is a community development worker, feminist, humanitarian, and a volunteer. After getting the degree of BS Biology in the University of the Philippines Los Baños, she started her own volunteer organization, Cagayan Volunteers’ Initiative or CaVolun where they spearheaded various youth-, community-, queer-, female- led projects that impacted the province of Cagayan. She was formerly a Project Manager of the Public Engagement Program of Active Vista Center Inc., where she organized more than 100 film screenings to combat historical distortion, misinformation, and promote film viewing as alternatives for human rights education. She was also part of two film festivals, the 9th Active Vista International Human Rights Film Festival and Dokyu Power Film Fest gathering more than 5,000 audiences during the pandemic. Through her work and volunteer activities she is able to work with different local and international Non-Governmental Organizations and embassies like The Asia Foundation, Greenpeace, OxFam Philippines, USAID, United Nations, Save the Children Philippines, WGNRR, and FES among others. One of her recent stints is being a Research Assistant to the Department of Women and Development Studies of the College of Social Work and Community Development at University of the Philippines Diliman specializing in Gender-Based Violence, Gender Fair Media, and Gender Fair Language. Last April 2024, she was also one of the eighty 2024 fellows of the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership-Asia led by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Concern Worldwide, and International Medical Corps. Currently, she is the Junior Political Officer of the Formation Program of Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan, the Socio-political apostolate of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines where she handles National Situationers and Community Sharing Programs that facilitates political discussions countering political dynasties, promoting political participation through political parties and training of young legislators. While at Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan, she is also one of the formators of the Arnold Jannsen KaLiNga Foundation’s Project Paghilom on which she trains with the team youth victim survivors of ExtraJudicial Killings during the bloody War on Drugs of the former Philippine Administration to be a leader in their respective communities.