She studied at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines where she completed her PhD in Psychology with Magna Cum Laude honors. Her MA thesis and PhD dissertation were about transgender women. She is currently among the Board of Directors of STRAP or The Society of Transsexual Women Advocates of the Philippines which is the first and longest existing support and advocacy group for and of transgender women She is also one of the Trans Secretariat of ILGA. She is a Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong where she teaches Sexuality and Gender. She has upcoming publications on transgender people’s experiences. She is active in rights advocacies for LGBTQI and women in the Philippines and Hong Kong. Prior to teaching, she worked in human resources. She is a choir soprano in The Harmonics, an LGBTQIA choir in Hong Kong.