She is a member of APCU and the President of TechPerformance Corp, an IT-based company in the Philippines. She is a professor of political science and international relations. She is a researcher-writer, academic, and consultant on a wide array of issues. She has worked with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other local and international organizations as a consultant. 

She is a Political Science Cum Laude graduate of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, with a Master’s Degree in Advanced European and International Studies at the Center International de Formation Europeene Institut Europeen Des Hautes Estudes Internationales in Nice, France. She also finished her coursework in Masters in Political Science at UP Diliman and took coursework in a Master’s in Southeast Asian Studies at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. She writes a regular column for ASEAN Post and Sovereign PH, and she serves as a co-host of a TV show, a radio program, and an online podcast.