About the Team

We are a collective of scholars and community organizers in the Global North and South, with our members in the Philippines having a proven record of collaborating with partners in the grassroots. As a whole, our work sits at the intersection of political communication, deliberative democracy, tech ethics, and worker justice.

Rossine Fallorina, Managing Director
Rossine Fallorina is a graduate student at the Department of Sociology, University of the Philippines Diliman and a disinformation researcher since 2019. He has co-written several reports on human rights, disinformation/influence operations, and social media platforms in the Philippines.

Jose Mari Hall Lanuza, Head of Research
Jose Mari Hall Lanuza is a PhD student and Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) fellow studying political communication and disinformation at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Manila Political Science Program.

Juan Felix, Head of Public Engagement
Juan Felix is a human rights advocate and researcher whose work informed campaigns combating online anti-LGBT+ rhetoric, and network-building for activists and women environmental defenders.

Ferdinand Sanchez II, Researcher
Ferdinand Sanchez II is a research assistant at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. He co-authored a number of publications on disinformation during elections.

Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong, Founder and Executive Director
Jonathan Corpus Ong is Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 2020-2023, he was Research Fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center for the Technology and Social Change Project. He was selected as one of 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Awardees (2022-2024).

Dr Nicole Curato, Research Lead for Citizen Engagement
Nicole Curato is Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her work examines how democratic innovations unfold in the aftermath of tragedies, including disasters, armed conflict, and urban crime.

Celebrating a decade of #MILinAct10n this 2024, OOTB commits to continue its pioneering work in producing MIL resources and programs for Filipino learners and educators, and organizing advocacy campaigns on counter-disinformation, press freedom, digital rights, and civic participation. 

Marlon Julian Nombrado
Marlon is one of the co-founders of the award-winning educational nonprofit, Out of The Box Media Literacy Initiative. Along with his organization, he was awarded First Prize in the 2021 UNESCO Global Media & Information Literacy Awards.

Hannah Aliwate
Hannah is a passionate advocate for children's media in the Philippines. She spent two years at the National Council for Children's Television, developing media literacy projects for children, parents, and teachers.

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