Post Elections

Tesay Glinoga would like to thank all of her supporters for being there for her, for believing in her vision, for standing firm and for backing her up to stand against the political machineries in the Philippines. Tesay Glinoga, you are are a winner to your supporters. The numbers she got were almost exactly what she expected. The funds she was expecting to help her with the campaign did not materialize. What did she do?... ...

An Interview With Manila Times

In her small niche in her office, Bilancia, and even before that, she prefers to work quietly in an almost semi-hermitic life for the past years, modest as not to announce her little achievements, and chooses to be forgotten. With so much of humility to stay in the sidelines, Tesay now finds it difficult to advertise herself in her political... ...

The Decision to Run for Mayor of Manila

Ma. Teresita Glinoga Hizon is Teresa, Tess, Nognog to others, like me because of her curly hair. I know, it wasn’t politically correct, but the nickname was our way of being affectionate to her. I am writing about my best friend from high school….a friend whom I have not seen in years. We were both intense individuals, and, still are, very... ...

Bilancia

Tesay has gone through many dark nights and she has used her “woundedness” to heal others. She has opened her center, Bilancia, to give services for women and children, and anyone who needs solace, or just wants to talk about his concerns. Tesay has designed her own psycho-spiritual counseling/healing based on her trainings in Psychological counseling, drug rehabilitation, meditations and her own experience how she was able to... ...

Advocacies

Tesay Glinoga’s Advocacies and Projects Project “Kulay Malaya” for street children Project “Lambong” for street families Devotion to the Virgin of the Poor, organized processions and vigils for the consecration of the country March Na! An Ode to Women, 2007 Women’s Month, organized breakfast forum and all-men Fun Run Men for Women Movement,... ...

Education

EDUCATION Immaculate Conception Academy of Manila - Elementary and high school St. Paul College of Manila - Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Major in Clinical Psychology (Pre-med), Dean’s List Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA - AB Fashion Design, 1985,Top 5 of the class. Returned to the Philippines for the EDSA Revolution. St. Scholastica’s College, Manila - MA in Humanities, Major in Women’s Studies, earned... ...

Family

FAMILY BACKGROUND PARENTS AND SIBLINGS JOSE C. GLINOGA, Teresita’s father, originated from Pitog, Quezon. He had degrees in Geodetic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering major in Designs at Feati University. He became an expert in the field of Industrial Engineering. He was a businessman in Lago, Nigeria where he built machines, among them sewing machines. During his retirement in the Philippines, Mr. Glinoga had built himself... ...

Awards

AWARDS First Place Elocution Contest; wrote her own piece “Tao, Gumising Ka” Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Short Story for Children, Second Place, 1996, “May Lugar ba sa Langit and Asong Batik-batik?” (Currently in the process of pre- publication as Children’s book series on values for age level 12 years old and above) Ka Amado Poetry Contest, Second Place, 1997 Pitchmart Scriptwriting Contest, Finalist, 1997 Catholic... ...