Authors Profile Mylene D. Hega is currently the Women Representative to the National Council of Akbayan Party. She joined the labor movement in 1986 and was exposed to the feminist movement while working on trade union issues. She initiated the development of various education programs that would help increase women's participation in trade union leadership and in integrating women and gender concerns into the everyday life of workers' organizations. She helped establish the women workers' organization, MAKALAYA, and served as its National Secretary General for three terms. She is also involved in promoting the rights of informal workers, and of girls and young women. She received her MA in Women and Development from the University of the Philippines. Meggan Evangelista started her LGBT advocacy work when she joined the University of the Philippines Babaylan- the pioneering LGBT student organization based in UP Diliman campus in Quezon City. She is currently the Executive Director of Babaylanes Inc.- a not-for-profit, non-government organization that provides assistance to LGBT youth groups in universities. Meggan is also the Secretary General of LAGABLAB Network- a broad alliance of LGBTQ organizations in the country whose core work is lobbying for LGBT-friendly legislation. She is an incoming Masters student in the Gender Studies program of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Veronica Alporha is a faculty member at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños campus. She is currently a graduate student in History. Before joining the faculty, she was a student leader and served as the Chairperson of the University Student Council. Her research interests include intellectual history, history of social movements, and historiography. 27