Gretchen is a development communicator who covers social change and issues through feature storytelling. With a Doctorate degree in Communication, she taught journalism as a professor of Development Communication in the Philippines for eight years before moving to Canada. She has published her own newcomer immigrant experiences and reports for NCM as an NCM-CAJ member. She is also currently volunteering as the head of the Publication and Promotions Committee of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Toronto where she publishes social media and web content.