Meet the NCRP team
Senior Director of Communications
Yna brings with her over ten years of experience in the nonprofit and public sectors. Prior to joining NCRP in 2006, she served as associate director of communications for the international security think tank Henry L. Stimson Center, which she initially joined in 2004 as program coordinator of the Security for A New Century project. Yna also was a program associate for the International START Secretariat, a nonprofit focused on assisting developing country scientists conduct research on global environmental change, where she was responsible for managing grants and projects. She served as a desk officer for ASEAN Affairs at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila.
Yna holds an M.A. in Technology and International Public Policy from the University of Denver and a B.A. in Social Sciences from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.