Immanuel is in perpetual paratelic beta mode to create more than he consumes.
I hope to leave the world much better from when I was first introduced to it with communities nurturing flourishing against suffering while I try hard to pay attention to the present, the liminal, and the memories these two leave me with to monumentalize for the good of those we coexist with now and those who will come after we pass.
My life's work today and from years back interlink an ecosystem in conservation and innovation that questions contemporary landscapes in crises, brings into being new possibilities for education, technology, and one another, and deepens relationships with the natural world.
By day, I am a first year-standing undergrad scholar at the Philippines' top university, intrigued by the poetic and purposive potential of data and technology in engineering artifacts, experiences, and systems towards what is beautiful, efficient, and just; that is why I study mathematics, statistics, and their intersections with economics, ethics, forecasting, machine learning, and storytelling—a marriage to my decade-worth humanities background in the literary, performing, & visual arts.
At night, I reconcile theory with praxis through our high school club-turned critical technology institute, Developh, and I incubate the potential of friends in augmenting their positive impact with the prospective careers and available resources they have.
When withdrawing from these multiverses, I return to humanity by climbing mountains, listening to alternative rock and musical theatre, bringing into being site-specific conceptual art, reading, or actually trying to sleep.
The venn diagram of all these I tried so hard to articulate in words as an attempt for legibility I avoid (because I am multitudes brevity cannot contain) and the explorations I have in existing have their remains archived into this blog—an ekphrasis of a life that is part garden and treasure trove while I learn and write through it.
What I'm Doing Lately
🌻 surviving undergrad
🤔 learning about learning and optimizing everyday habits and routine processes
🕯️ experimenting at Developh on archival, publishing, and supporting emerging student tech founders
✴️ corporate engagement consultancy work at One for the World where I helped raised $800K+ donations in 2022 from the biggest companies in finance and tech like Microsoft, Adobe, Facebook, Simplisafe, BCG, and Accenture for the most effective charities to advance interventions against extreme poverty in-person in New York and remotely from SEA
🏋🏼 at the gym every day for 2 hours except on Sundays!
🔑 strategizing 2023 in foresight
Previously
in 2022
in 2022
🔔 co-convened Youth for Climate Hope that organized and won campaigns (and in 2019!) to overturn the establishment of coal-fired and fossil gas power plants at home in Southeast Asia’s solar power capital, Negros
📒 wrote policy agenda as co-chairperson on environment at the province's capital City Youth Development Council and concurrently co-led the 1st youth-led citizen science expedition in Negros at Danjugan to democratize research and science participation for multi-sectoral youth
📀 launched a 6-month farmer engagement project with the Fish Welfare Initiative in Bohol and Cebu as welfare interventions for healthier ecosystems, more resilient businesses, and better fish welfare
⚜️ led oversight and operations in publishing, forging partnerships with the NUJP, Rappler, and the Singapore Scout Association, and producing 150+ live shows as Vice President of the Philippine Scouting movement’s media association
💡 designed the EdTech VeriPol and won grand champion at Google Developer Student Clubs' Philippine Solutions Challenge to contribute in improving voter decision-making