Maria Veronica O. Papa
Member, Youth Leadership Council (Philippines)
Maria Veronica O. Papa is a Public Policies Researcher at Policy International, an all-women policy group advocating for competition in the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector, with a focus on Southeast Asia. She interned briefly in the Senate of the Philippines. A youth rights advocate, Veronica/Oni served as the Executive Director of Kilos Ko Youth, an organization that she co-founded in 2020 and that now has 18 local chapters across the Philippine archipelago to empower young people to take leadership roles and organize at the grassroots and national levels. Veronica/Oni works within the networks of various national and international socio-civic organizations like AIESEC, the World Youth Alliance Asia-Pacific, the youth wing of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats, and the International Federation of Liberal Youth.