Member AWE & UN Committee
May is a grassroots educator from the Philippines. Her 38 years of experience in development work includes working with sectors like the farmers, fisherfolks, women, indigenous people, persons with disabilities, urban poor/informal settlers, marginal handicrafts producers/artisans, and Muslims in Mindanao Island of the Philippines, in the fields of leadership formation and empowerment, education advocacy, adult learning and education, community-based socio-economic enterprises, environmental protection, gender and development, and local governance. She also writes modules and workbooks for grassroots education.