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Liza Garcia

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person-liza-garcia
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Tags philippines, quezon-city, southeast-asia, asia-pacific, filipina, feminist, executive-director, fma, foundation-for-media-alternatives, gender-and-ict, technology-facilitated-gender-based-violence, tfgbv, online-gender-based-violence, ogbv, digital-rights, internet-rights, privacy, surveillance, ai-and-human-rights, ai-governance, deepfakes, apc-asia-pacific, aprigf, igf, dynamic-coalition-on-gender-and-internet-governance, women-and-development, university-of-the-philippines, kiev-state-university

Liza Garcia · 1 direct neighbour visible

02 · Connections

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03 · Background

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Filipina feminist and digital-rights advocate; Executive Director of the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), the Quezon City-headquartered Philippine civil-society digital-rights organisation that anchors national advocacy on internet rights, privacy, gender and ICT, and — since 2023 — artificial-intelligence governance and AI-related technology-facilitated gender-based violence. Holding the executive directorship by at least June 2020, she succeeded the long-running leadership cycle through which FMA grew from its 1997 ICT-democratisation pivot into a senior Asia-Pacific civil-society node.

Garcia holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of the Philippines, a Master's in International Relations from Kiev State University, and an MA in Women and Development Studies from the University of the Philippines, and she worked for an NGO focused on women and migration before joining FMA. Her public FMA authorship record begins in October 2015 and includes the Philippine Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles, FMA's APrIGF and ASEAN civil-society engagement, RightsCon 2018 reporting on surveillance and gender-based violence, the Philippine Data Privacy Act implementing-rules consultations, and FMA's Universal Periodic Review submissions on the Philippines' digital-rights record; by July 2015 she was already an FMA delegate to the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum. Before her elevation to the executive directorship she led FMA's Gender and ICT programme line — including authorship of the 2017 FMA monograph Gender Violence: The Philippine Experience On the Internet, the organisation's anchor long-form text on technology-facilitated gender-based violence — and continues to anchor FMA's TFGBV work alongside its broader digital-rights, AI-governance, and privacy portfolio.

As Executive Director Garcia is a regularly cited civil-society voice on Philippine digital-rights legislation and policy — including FMA's 2020 critique of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 ("the Anti-Terror Bill disproportionately expands the State's surveillance powers by providing longer periods of permissible surveillance") and the March 2025 cross-sectoral forum on technology-facilitated gender-based violence on women's political participation hosted at the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center in Taguig City. She also co-moderates the Dynamic Coalition on Gender and Internet Governance at the UN Internet Governance Forum, anchoring FMA's named presence in the multilateral gender-and-internet-governance track that runs through the IGF and the APC Asia-Pacific subnetwork (of which FMA is the fifth Asian member).

04 · Sources

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  1. fma.ph

    Checked 2026-05-18

    FMA's own current team page — primary source for Garcia's role as Executive Director of the Foundation for Media Alternatives, her specialisation in women's rights and ICT, her undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of the Philippines, her Master's in International Relations from Kiev State University, her MA in Women and Development Studies from the University of the Philippines, her prior work for an NGO focused on women and migration, and her co-moderator role with the Dynamic Coalition on Gender at the Internet Governance Forum

  2. apc.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    APC news article dated 8 June 2020 (updated 9 July 2024) — primary source for Garcia's role as Executive Director of FMA by June 2020 and her public statement that "the Anti-Terror Bill disproportionately expands the State's surveillance powers by providing longer periods of permissible surveillance" in the FMA-led civil-society response to the Philippine Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020

  3. bworldonline.com

    Checked 2026-05-18

    BusinessWorld 4 March 2025 spotlight article on technology-facilitated gender-based violence — secondary source for Garcia's continuing role as FMA Executive Director and her participation in the "Disinformed, Disempowered, Disenfranchised — How Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Keeps Women from Politics" forum at the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center in Taguig City

  4. fma.ph

    Checked 2026-05-18

    FMA July 2015 article on the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) in Macau — primary source establishing Garcia's FMA affiliation by July 2015 as one of three FMA delegates (alongside Christina Lopez and Nica Dumlao) to the regional internet-governance process

  5. fma.ph

    Checked 2026-05-18

    FMA author archive collecting Garcia's named contributions to FMA's public-facing output — primary source for her sustained FMA authorship line from October 2015 forward, covering the Philippine Declaration on Internet Rights and Principles, ASEAN civil-society internet-rights work, FMA's APrIGF 2016 and 2018 participation, RightsCon 2018 on surveillance and gender-based violence, the Philippine Data Privacy Act implementing-rules consultations, and Universal Periodic Review submissions

  6. fma.ph

    Checked 2026-05-18

    2017 FMA monograph titled "Gender Violence: The Philippine Experience On the Internet" attributed to Liza S. Garcia — primary source for her authorship of FMA's anchor long-form text on technology-facilitated gender-based violence in the Philippines, indicating she led FMA's TFGBV programme line in the period preceding her elevation to the Executive Directorship

Source: entities/persons/person-liza-garcia.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.