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Lourdes Gordolan is a research officer working with Bridget Anderson on the Filipino nurses and domestic work longitudinal study within the programme on 'Infrastructures of Migration'. She holds an MPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford, and a BA from the University of the Philippines. For the past decade, she has worked extensively on issues of social and political change within the post-dictatorship Philippines. Before joining COMPAS, Lourdes was a research associate for the Institute for Popular Democracy, a Manila-based non-government organization specializing in development policy. Her research interests include social movements and change, class, social networks, nationalism and identity politics, and Diaspora. Voltaire Veneracion

I'm a lawyer and also the proprietor of Big Dipper, a publishing house. I served as a Clerk of Supreme Court Justice Vicente V. Mendoza and worked as an indigenous peoples' rights advocate in the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center- Friends of the Earth Philippines. I served as Supervising Lawyer in Bantay Katarungan, a non-profit advocating judicial reforms, and Editor of Kilosbayan Magazine. I was Editor of the Philippine Collegian from 1996 to 1997.

Specialties: Constitutional Law, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Natural Resources Law, Estate Planning, Adoption and Family Law