Rodel Rodis, Loida Nicolas Lewis, and Edmundo Garcia in conversation with Sheila Coronel, Columbia Journalism School
Friday, March 4th | 7:00 – 8:30pm EST / 8:00 – 9:30am Philippines Standard time | via Zoom
- Rodel Rodis: A lawyer, Rodel is the first Filipino American elected to public office in San Francisco, serving on the San Francisco Community College Board, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury. He taught Philippine History and the History of Filipinos in America at San Francisco State University where he was chair of the Pilipino American Studies Program. He is a founder of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations and of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California.
- Loida Nicolas Lewis: Lawyer, businesswoman, grandmother, author of How to Get a Green Card, she is the chair of the Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, named after her late husband and
entrepreneur. Ms. Lewis published the New York-based Ningas Cogon (Brushfire) an anti- Marcos monthly magazine, from 1972 to 1979, for which she and the staff were blacklisted by
the Philippine government. - Edmundo Garcia: Based in Manila, Ed is one of the framers of the 1987 Philippine Constitution. He has taught at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines, and worked with Amnesty International and International Alert for over two decades in the United Kingdom.
Sheila Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University in New York. She is a co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and served as its executive director for many years. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Coups, Cults & Cannibals, The Rule-makers: How the Wealthy and Well-Born Dominate Congress, and Pork and other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines. She has also written textbooks on investigative reporting for journalists in the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and the Balkans.