About the author
Rowena Villena Guanzon is a practicing lawyer and writer. She graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law (Class ‘84) and the U.P. School of Economics ‘79). She has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University (Class ‘95 Marshal) where she was an Edward Mason Fellow. She is the former Mayor of Cadiz City (1986-1992).
An advocate of children’s rights, women’s rights and gender equality, Atty. Bing Guanzon is also involved in legal and judicial reform. Aside from law practice, she is engaged in consultancy work in the areas of local governance, publich health law, children’s rights, women’s rights, policy and legislation. She is the Co-Project Leader of the Gender Justice Awards (supported by Unifem-Bangkok), a project of the U.P. Center for Women’s Studies Foundation, Inc. and the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women.
Rowena Guanzon was the Registrar of the Tokyo Tribunal, also called the International Women’s War Crimes Tribunal for Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery( Tokyo in 2000 and The Hague in 2001). She is a founding member of Gender Watch Coalition, legal consultant of the Association of Social Workers for Integrity and Nationalism, Inc., a member of the Kennedy School of Government Alumni Association, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Philippine Bar Association, and the National Caucus for Politics of Renewal. She is an alumna of the Delta Lambda Sigma Sorority and U.P. Silab Sisterhood.
Rowena Guanzon writes a column (Lucid Interval) in INQ7 (www.inq7.net) every Tuesday, and in the Visayan Daily Star (www.visayandailystar.com) every Tuesday and Thursday . She is currently writing a book on gender justice and another on the contributions of Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr. and the Davide Court to gender and women’s rights.
