Our Experts Biography

A queer young Filipino social development worker and movement organizer, and uses they/them and siya pronouns, and "Mx." as honorifics. They currently work as the Executive Director of PANTAY, a registered and recognized youth-led socio-political collective of young LGBTIQ+ and allies, and organizations advocating for gender equality and human rights in the Philippines. Rye has been active in various social movements since 2012, in student politics at the University of the Philippines Baguio, in the youth movement when they joined a democratic socialist and progressive political party, and in the LGBTIQ+ movement leading PANTAY.