Maria Generosa Mislang

Genee Mislang obtained her juris doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1997 and passed the Philippine Bar Examinations in 1998. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Science in Physics from the same University in 1992. In 2002, she obtained her Master of Laws in Public Service Law degree from the New York University School of Law. She spent her internship at the Ateneo Human Rights Center assigned to Environmental Legal Assistance Center (Palawan) and PANLIPI (an indigenous peoples’ rights NGO). She joined Tanggol Kalikasan (Defense of Nature, a public interest environmental law office) in 1999 providing direct legal services to community clients (fisherfolk, farmers, upland dwellers, urban poor, and indigenous peoples) affected by various environmental issues, and conducts community paralegal training and environmental legal education for communities, law enforcers, government agency and local government officials, lawyers, judges and prosecutors.

In July 2018, she joined the Alternative Law Groups (ALG), a coalition of non-government organizations with legal program components that adhere to the principles and values of alternative or developmental law, as National Coordinator. She is also a lecturer on Environment and Natural Resources Law at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, Philippines.