Our Future as a Maritime Power: Leticia Shahani at TEDxDiliman

Dr Leticia Shahani always wanted to be a teacher, and worked as a professor at the University of the Philippines, Queens Borough Community College, New York, Brooklyn College, and New School for Social Research. She also became the dean of the Graduate School at Lyceum of the Philippines.

She joined the foreign service and became part of the United Nations Secretariat's advocacy on women's issues until she became the head of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

She served as our ambassador to Romania and Australia, and was also posted as Secretary-General of the World Conference on the UN Decade of Women in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. After the 1986 EDSA Revolution, Shahani returned to the Philippines, and became an "accidental politician".

She won the senatorial seat in 1987, championing legislation particularly important to women, the youth, farmers, the Philippine foreign service, and arts and culture.

Today, in addition to serving on several think tanks and advising the government on various issues, including the law of the sea, Sen. Shahani is a farmer working to improve the lives of fellow farmers in Pangasinan.

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