Rochelle has a degree in Accounting and has more than 9 years of experience in sales, marketing and operations management working for an International Programs company based in the United States. She is currently the operations manager for SURF Capital, an impact investment firm which invests in global real estate projects that have positive social and environmental impacts.

She is passionate about mindful living as a means to help conserve the environment, climate justice, equality, sustainability, and working with groups in the grassroots level. In 2004, she’s helped start a non-profit organization in Eastern Visayas, Philippines, an organization which focuses on street kids, education, health and local livelihood projects. She is the co-founder and current program director of The Helping Hands Philippines, a Filipino-Canadian NGO which helps educate and train survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the fields of primary and preventive healthcare. She is also the operations director for a Tacloban City based environmental conservation NGO, Waste 360 and actively advocates for the rights of the LGBTIQ by providing a safe space via a local restaurant she co-owns and organizing talks and events for the community. Now a part of Youth Voices Count’s BOT she hopes to bring her diverse experience and use it to help the organization grow.