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I am Vernie Yocogan-Diano, an Indigenous woman human rights defender and activist for the last three decades in my home region, Cordillera, at the national level in the Philippines and in the Asia-Pacific region.
My experience on women leading research is integrated with my leading, igniting, organising and mobilising work. My experience on FPAR became more systematised in APWLD as a mentor and a trainer-facilitator in 2012. My love for FPAR was sustained over the years I served as trainer-facilitator to Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD) partners in its programs.
Note - Vernie's most recent March 2024 APWLD FPAR training was in Lampung, Indonesia on Food Sovereignty. Vernie has also been the executive director of Cordillera Women’s Education Action Research Center,
In this episode, we speak with Wardarina and Vernie Yocogan-Diano about their feminist participatory action research projects advancing women's rights and development justice through building autonomous feminist movements and...