School: University of California Berkeley

Dr. Joel Joseph S. Marciano, Jr. is the first and current Director General (DG) of the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA). He is a Full Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. As the PhilSA DG, he also holds the rank of Cabinet Secretary and is the Presidential Adviser on Space Matters.

Alyssa Gimenez is a PhD student in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley. Her masteral research explored the impact of a green space intervention on premature aging among the Pilipinx community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Armbien Sabillo is a scientist and law student seeking to go into patent law and science policy. He is currently taking up his Juris Doctor at UC Berkeley specializing in Intellectual Property Law.

Zara Fernandez is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Salesforce.