Profile of Senator Grace Poe

Our guest of honor made Philippine election history when she garnered a record-breaking 20,337,327 votes in the 2013 Senatorial elections. She took up AB Development Studies at the University of the Philippines, where she was a college scholar and Batch Representative to the UP Student Council, before transferring to Boston College (in Massachusetts) where she earned her AB Political Science degree. She is only one of three (3) Filipinos to be chosen as a Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Policy Center of the National University of Singapore. Prior to the Senate, our guest of honor headed the Movie & Television Review & Classification Board (MTRCB).

In her first year in office, our guest of honor racked up an impressive list of accomplishments in the Senate. She already has two (2) laws under her belt, namely; Republic Act 10639 or the “Free Mobile Texts During Disasters Act,” and Republic Act 10640 which streamlines the “Three-Witness Rule” of the Dangerous Drugs Act. She likewise spearheaded passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill in the Senate. To date, our guest of honor has authored more than 178 measures, the most notable of which are the “Sustansiya sa Batang Pilipino” Act, Corporate Farming Act and the “Tulong sa Kabataan sa Agrikultura” Act.