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Written by Luchie B. Maranan
Illustrated by Shan Maurice Jose
Susan Fernandez Magno was born on August 3, 1956 in Sagpon, Legazpi City, Albay. By the time she was to start schooling, the Fernandez family had moved to Makati, Metro Manila. She attended St. Scholastica’s College in Manila until high school and enrolled at UP Manila and later in UP Diliman where she earned her A.B. Sociology and Master of Arts in Philippine Studies. Her MA thesis, written during the Marcos dictatorship, was about child prostitution in Manila. She later got married to Alexander Magno with whom she had two children, Kalayaan and Sandino. She was a senior lecturer for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Ateneo De Manila University, assistant professor at St. Scholastica’s College and Miriam College, and a senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines.
With the downfall of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986 following the EDSA People Power revolt, Susan became a television presenter as she hosted Concert at the Park, a weekly television musical program over Channel 4 that ran for eleven years. She endeared herself to the public with her articulate commentaries on Filipino classical and indigenous music performed by various artists at the Rizal Park in Luneta. She was also invited to join the highly regarded children’s show Bulilit. In 2008, she optimized the use of mainstream media by lending her face and voice to challenge the public to effect change through vigilance with ABS-CBN’s Ako Mismo television campaign.
She was National Coordinator for IBFAN (International Baby Food Action Network), UNICEF, member and coordinator for various women’s and social welfare organizations, member of KALAYAAN and MORES, and board adviser of Musicians for Peace. In the words of her son Kalayaan, “She lived up to her advocacies at home and instilled in us the sense of freedom…the value of seeing men and women as equals, and that differences are among people, not genders.”
Copyright © 2014
ISBN: 978-971-569-789-7
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