Loren Legarda
BASIC INFO
Popular Name: Loren Legarda
Birth Name: Lorna Regina Bautista Legarda
Birth Date: January 28, 1960
Spouse: Jose Antonio C. Leviste (separated)
(Batangas governor, 1972-1980)
Children:
- Lorenzo Antonio
- Lance Antonio
Father: Antonio Cabrera Legarda
Mother: Bessie Gella Bautista
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.lorenlegarda.com.ph
EDUCATION
Masters: National Defense College of the Philippines
- Masters in National Security Administration (1993)
Post Grad: University of California Los Angeles
- Special Studies towards Professional Designation in Journalism (1985)
College: University of the Philippines, Diliman
- Broadcast Communications, cum laude (1981)
High School: Assumption Convent (1977)
Elementary: Assumption Convent (1973)
DISTINCTIONS
Appointed as the Asia Pacific Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reductions by the UNISDR (2008)
Lieutenant Colonel in the Philippine Armed Forces Reserve Corps
Benigno Aquino Award for Journalism (1995)
The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service Award (1993)
Ten Outstanding Young Men Award from the Philippines Jaycees (1992)
AFFILIATIONS
Luntiang Pilipinas Foundation
Bessie Legarda Memorial Foundation
Libro ni Loren Foundation
POLITICAL PARTY
NPC (2007-present)
Independent (2004-2005)
KNP (2003-2004)
Lakas-CMD (1998-2003)
POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Senator (2007-present)
Ran for Vice-President (2004)
- running mate of Fernando Poe, Jr.
Senate Majority Floor Leader (2001-2003)
Senator (1998-2004)
SPONSORED LAWS
RA 9509 – Barangay Livelihood and Skills Training Act
RA 9501 – Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
RA 9262 – Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act
RA 9245 – Philippine Ear Research Institute Act
RA 9242 – Philippine Tropical Fabric Law
RA 9231 – Anti-Child Labor Law
RA 9208 – Anti Trafficking in Persons Act
RA 9177 – Eid’l Fitr Holiday Law
RA 9003 – Solid Waste Management Act
3 Comments
Dear Senator Loren:
Congratulations on your speech on the MDGs in the Senate. Your paper is the first comprehensive analysis that I have read so far written in our country. All other speeches and comments are lacking in specifics and concrete action plans; even those delivered by Filipinos in the United Nations and parallel conferences.
May I invite you to read my academic paper, a result of research work since 2004. I hope you can incorporate the findings in your lawmaking and advocacy.
http://knol.google.com/k/josephine-acosta-pasricha/teaching-gender-and-sex-through-systems/3h6jhxpqiqmxn/4
II also hope to get legitimate funding for continuing research at the University of Pennsylvania where I am now based as visiting scholar.
I hope you can help me, and we can partner in academic research.
Thank you.
May God bless you and your children and the Filipino children.
Sincerely,
josie pasricha
Matling Ind’l/Com’l Corp.
Matling, Malabang, Lanao del Sur
Sen Loren Legarda
The Philippine Senate
Manila
December 31, 2010
Dear Senator Legarda,
Greetings from far-away Mindanao! I cannot let the year pass without sending you my best regards and gratitude for the very nice things you have done for the country. These were noted some years ago, when my in-law brought me to the Luneta Park to show me that there are still some things that we can appreciate. This was the beautiful shady trees that gave the people a place to rest comfortable amidst the hassles of city life. The other one was the once-beautiful and eye-catching poem, Trees, which I saw in Cagayan de Oro City near Lumbia Airport. I meant to acknowledge these as early as I’ve seen them but I would confess that the very busyness of life had also crowded my intentions and now the trees had grown and the poem as well had faded. I’m sorry.
You must be a lover of nature as well and as late as it is, I now would like to thank you for these two things that help lighten the burdens of life once we realize and thank our God Who is the Creator of these things.
The poem came back to mind and I was determined to keep it there but as much as I tried I cannot recall a stanza near the end of the poem. I’ve tried to request friends who would pass by the place to write it down for me. I was so frustrated when they tell me it was there and I thought they were just excuses so when we took a friend to the airport I determined that I would find it myself.
Now I knew why my friends missed it. The poem was indeed still there in whole but after finding the stanza I was missing, we decided to leave. At the end, we also found that you were the one responsible for it being there so another question was answered by our discovery that it is to you that I should write to. The poem was indeed still there but so faded that unless one is as determined in finding it, like I was, it was hard to find amidst the grown weeds that crammed around it. Asking for information from the little store where one of the stanzas was, was no great help because he also doesn’t care. I am so thankful that that our driver-friend was so patient seeing how determined I was. We turned back and slowly retraced our steps. With traffic whizzing past us, I found what I came for and now I should not let this opportunity pass thanking and appreciating you for it. I know that should our young be taught to appreciate what God had given us to take care of, we will learn to be more like the people God created us, to take care of His creation! Thank you, dear Senator Legarda! May your example be multiplied several times more! More power!
Very sincerely,
(signed)
MILA DE LA CRUZ
dear senator loren legarda,
Greetings! i am a student and i just want to know from you if media is a good training ground for politicians. what i mean is that since you are then a media practitioner, was it very helpful for you in being a very good politician today?
Any response of yours, our dear senator would be very much appreciated. thank you so much and may you continue to create such big changes in our country. More powers and Godbless!
your great follower,
ralffe