{"id":1537,"date":"2011-11-06T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T08:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2011-11-06T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T08:09:37","slug":"inquirer-net-exec-among-100-most-influential-fil-am-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"INQUIRER.net exec among 100 most influential Fil-Am women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MANILA, Philippines<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n\u2014INQUIRER.net\u2019s director of sales in the United States was named one of this year\u2019s 100 Most Influential Filipina American Women in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Esther Misa Chavez, who is also the president of the Philippine American Press Club, was hailed by the Filipina Women\u2019s Network (FWN) as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipino American Women in the US,  an award given to Filipinas who have shown outstanding work in their chosen fields.<br \/>\nFWN 100 Nationwide Search and Selection Committee Chairperson Lieutenant, Colonel Shirley Saoit Raguindin of the Arizona National Guard described the awardees as \u201cdynamic leaders who are influential in their respective fields and local communities.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Raguindin said that Filipinas who have been given the award were \u201crole models\u201d and \u201cpowerful examples of women doing extraordinary work who will inspire our youth and future leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International Boxing Association Bantamweight boxing world champion Ana Julaton and former Hawaii state representative and house Republican leader Lynne Berbano Finnegan also received the award in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>As role models, the awardees are tasked to mentor a prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, selected from nominations submitted from across the US, said Raguindin. This was to ensure that the FWN churns up double the number of Filipina achievers and power movers by 2012. (<strong>Karen Boncocan, Inquirer.net<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014INQUIRER.net\u2019s director of sales in the United States was named one of this year\u2019s 100 Most Influential Filipina American Women in the US. Esther Misa Chavez, who is also the president of the Philippine American Press Club, was hailed by the Filipina Women\u2019s Network (FWN) as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipino [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}