LeniRobredo

A lawyer by profession, Leni Gerona-Robredo is an alumna of the prestigious UP School of Economics in Diliman. She isn't using her legal profession, however, to enrich herself but to empower the weak and the marginalized, including the peasants, the fisherfolk, the laborers, the women, the children, and the urban/rural poor. For years, she has been extending, through the non-government organization SALIGAN, free legal assistance to the needy and the dispossessed. Despite her hectic schedule, Atty. Robredo's life has been nonetheless centered on her family--the late Sec Jesse (who considered her "the wind beneath my wings") and her three daughters Aika, Tricia, and Jillian.