You are invited to the 3rd EDSA People Power Commemoration in Atlanta
2-4 PM
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009
Oberkotter Room * UPS Headquarters
55 Glenlake Parkway * Atlanta, GA 30328
A Video Presentation
Produced by Roger Olivares
Panelists
Topic 1: “EDSA Uno, Dos, Tres, Kuwatro?, Continuity and Change in Philippine Politcs"
by Aries Arugay, University of the Philippines Political Science Professor
Topic 2: “Global Education: A Revolution from Within”
by Joel Aquino, PhD, Hall County Science Schools
Topic 3: “EDSA 1, 2 & 3 – Moral & Spiritual Recovery"
by Winifredo Alfelor, Filipino American Christian Church
Discussion
Mini Photo Display by Roland Roldan
About the Panelists:
Aries A. Arugay is a PhD in political science student at Georgia State University under a Fulbright scholarship. He is also an assistant professor (on leave) at the University of the Philippines-Diliman) and a fellow at the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies, Inc. (ISDS Philippines). His teaching and research interests are comparative democratization, civil-military relations, security sector reform, civil society and contentious politics.
Joel S. Aquino, PhD is currently a high school science teacher at Hall County Schools and an adjunct faculty (geology) of Gainesville State College. He holds a PhD in geology from James Cook University in Australia, bachelors and masters in geology from the Univ. of the Philippines and other certifications from Germany and Philippine Women’s Univ. He has a total of 18 years of teaching experience both in secondary public schools (Texas, Georgia) and college (Univ. of the Philippines, Univ. of Tennessee, GSC). His teaching experience has been enriched by his almost a decade of work in the mining and exploration industry and collaborative researches in several countries.
Joel has been the recipient of several teaching awards; the current ones include being names as Hall County Teacher of the Year 2008-2009 and Masters in Teaching awarded by Featherbone University. He has also been cited by Philippine Inquirer (2007) to be one of the Filipino geoscientists who contributed to the discovery of a US$13 billion gold-copper deposit in Laos.
Winnifredo Alfelor was born 57 years ago in Valenzuela City, Metro Manila. His parents, Severo and Amparo, are both Bicolanos and natives of Naga City and Iriga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines respectively. He is currently Global Quality Manager for NCR Corporation and had over 34years of proven project management and leadership positions with numerous prestigious American and Philippine companies, among them Solectron Corp., Raytheon Engineers, Ebasco Services Corp., Washington Group International, Westinghouse, Meralco, and DMG/Radiowealth.
He is currently an Elder and Board Member of the Filipino-American Christian Church (FACC) in Lilburn, Georgia, President of You Are A Blessing, Inc. (a non-profit organization that supports poor and financially-deprived children in the Philippines through the “Mentor-A-Child Ministry”), and co-founder of New Birth Society, a ministry for men in Metro-Atlanta.
Winnie, his wife, Marilyn, and children Winnielyn, Wendy and Wilma, have been very active in the Philippine American community affairs as members of the Fil-Am of Greater Atlanta (Fil-Am) since 1987. Winnie currently holds the Fil-Am Service Chair function and was past PRO and past editor of Balitang Pilipino. He was also past Vice President for Membership and Director for Government and Political Affairs of the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Georgia (PACCGA.) He briefly worked for over 2 years as Assistant to Honorary Consul General Ray Donato from 1989 to 1992, serving the consular needs of Filipino-Americans not only in Georgia, but other Southeast states such as Alabama and Florida. Winnie has continuously worked closely and through a unified effort with other Philippine American groups and associations in Metro Atlanta to make a difference by supporting community service projects and ministries to help the cause of eradicating graft and corruption in the Philippines.
Winnie is author of various technical papers on quality management and has been a recipient of several corporate awards for leading continuous improvement programs in companies, such as DuPont, Washington Group International, Westinghouse, Solectron and MIESCOR. He still holds a Philippine Professional Electrical Engineer license, and is active with various American quality organizations as a certified Six-Sigma Master Blackbelt, certified ISO Lead Auditor, certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Manager and certified nuclear inspector. He holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, a M.Sc in Project Management and is a Ph.D candidate in Engineering Management.
This event is FREE * Open to the public * Highly recommended to students
GFI is a 501 © 3 tax exempt non profit organization
RSVP: galingfoundation@yahoo.com
Contact:
Ces Alberto (404) 361-9313
Ana Blackburn (404) 925-2639
Grace Ragheb (404) 786-7728
(Refreshments will be available until supply last. Please RSVP)
Special thanks to UPS, Gloria Enriquez, Aries Arugay, Joel Aquino, Winifredo Alfelor, partner organizations & volunteers
