Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University where he currently serves as the Assistant Vice President for Social Development, Environment, and Community Engagement. Dr. Dela Cruz obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies and a Masters Degree in Economics from Ateneo de Manila University and his PhD in Sociology from University of the Philippines Diliman where he wrote about the historical tensions faced by the university social research centers across the country using the social systems theory of Niklas Luhmann as his sensitizing framework. His research interests include the sociology of higher education, university social responsibility, policy sociology, organizational sociology, and social entrepreneurship.

Dr. Maria Cecilia T. Medina obtained a B.A in Sociology (Cum Laude)  in 1983 and M.A in Asian Studies in 1991 from the University of the Philippines. She holds a  PhD in Sociology from Xavier University in 2004 and in 2020 obtained an MA in Religious Studies from the Maryhill School of Theology. She is an Associate Professor  at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines, with research interests and publications on Southeast Asia, religions, disasters, indigenous peoples, and peace and development. At the UP Asian Center she had served as Assistant to the Dean for Administration, Cultural and Public Affairs, Coordinator and Head of the Secretariat of the Tri-College PhD Philippine Studies Program and Editor in Chief of Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives in Asia. She is currently an associate editor of Social Sciences Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Society and Change and a regular member of the National Research Council of the Philippines, International Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Gamma Mu. She had also served in the board of the Philippine Sociological Society, and is active in the Research Committee on Religion (RC 22) and Disasters (RC 39) of the International Sociological Association. 

Hadji Balajadia is a fulltime shared Faculty of the Psychology and the Sociology Departments of Ateneo de Davao University. She teaches sociological social psychology. Her research, advocacy, and social involvement includes state violence, peace and security, social inclusion, LGBTQ+ rights, health systems reform, and leadership.

Yvan Ysmael Yonaha is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His current research is on the labor movements of essential workers during the pandemic, examining the dynamics of power among nurses and platform delivery riders as they struggle to improve their working conditions. He is a recipient of the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme, awarded by the Research Grants Council of the city to promising scholars.

He previously served as an Instructor at the Development Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila University and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Master of Arts in Philippine Studies (Major in Development Studies) degrees from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He has published journal articles and book chapters on the sociology of religion, politics, ethnicity, and migration.

Dr. Diana Therese M. Veloso is an Associate Professor and the Master of Health Social Science Program Coordinator at the Department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences of De La Salle University in the Philippines. She is also the Coordinator of Gender and Multiculturalism, an interdisciplinary course offered by the College of Liberal Arts of the same university. She completed her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. She also completed graduate certificates in Community College Learning and Teaching and Advanced Study in Philanthropy. She has taken short courses on gender, theology, and social justice at the University of Roehampton-Catherine of Siena College in London.  She undertook groundbreaking research on the experiences of women formerly on death row in the Philippines. She served as the lead researcher in two government-funded studies on serious and organized crime threats in the country.  She was a consultant in the nationwide evaluation of the rehabilitation programs for children in conflict with the law (CICL) and the initiatives of government agencies to improve access to justice. She also conducted research on gender-based violence among internally displaced people in the cities of Zamboanga and Marawi, located in the southern Philippines. She served as the Guest Editor of Philippine Sociological Review, Special Issue on Justice. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Office of Strategic Studies and Strategy Management Digest.

Janet M. Arnado is a full professor and former chair in the Department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences at De La Salle University, Manila. She held an ASIA fellowship at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. For her research on women and migration, she received the 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist Award in the field of Sociology, given by the National Academy of Science and Technology. Janet studies social inequalities and mobilities among the marginalized, as well as various topics in education, migration, work, urban agriculture, health, spirituality, and evaluation. She is the author of three books and several journal articles and book chapters. Her research appears in Current Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, International Journal of Sociology of Education, Asian Journal of Women Studies, and Journal of International Women’s Studies, among others. Janet obtained her doctorate in Sociology from Virginia Tech. 

Jade Harley Bretaña is an academic and an advocate who earned his BA and MA in Sociology from Bukidnon State University and Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, respectively. For almost a decade, he taught sociology at BukSU before volunteering for humanitarian groups. His research interests focus on youth and digital cultures, marginalized communities, and the sociology of emotions. As an academic, Harley co-authored an instructional material for college “The Contemporary World” which contextualizes globalization in Mindanao in partnership with Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan funded by CHED. He also presents his research papers at the annual PSS Conference. As an advocate, Harley is a board member of humanitarian groups such as BukidKnown and the US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights (USIDHR) – Philippines. The former is a social enterprise whose mission is to promote a sustainable cultural community and the latter promotes diplomacy, human rights, and community engagements. Currently, he is taking his Ph.D. in Sociology at MSU-IIT.