She was recently a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Master in Public Administration as an Edward Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. A lawyer by profession, she has complemented her legal expertise with experience in development work as a former Program Officer of the Law and Human Rights Unit of The Asia Foundation and a former anchor for a weekly radio program on human rights. With her passion for gender equality, she has co-authored two books on gender jurisprudence—The Davide Court: Its Contributions to Gender and Jurisprudence (December 2006) and Engendering the Philippine Judiciary (December 2005.