SubSelfie.com is an independent online magazine for the young generation of Filipinos.
2024 marked our 10th anniversary of storytelling beyond the newsroom.
SubSelfie.com weaves the narrative of young Filipinos through their well-informed and responsible points of view.
With advocacy journalism at the forefront, we dig deep into the experiences and stories of the millennials and Generation Z.
What began as a passion project in 2014 as the first online magazine for Filipino millennials has now grown to be a chronicle of this generation’s struggles and triumphs.
Instead of pictures, our selfies come in the form of multimedia stories.
Toni Tiemsin
Editor-in-Chief
Toni is a strategist, campaigner and changemaker. In the last two decades, he has done news media, development and advocacy communications, strategic communications, and corporate and consumer campaigns.
He is concurrently President & Chief Strategist of communications agency FILI Studios and Communications Manager for pharmaceutical company MSD Philippines. He also teaches media and communication at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.
His most recent stint was with FleishmanHillard as Vice President for Corporate and briefly as Media and Influence lead. Previously, he was with global advertising firm Ogilvy Philippines, children’s rights group Save the Children, GMA News and Public Affairs, and BusinessMirror.
Email him at toni@subselfie.com
JM Nualla
Managing Editor
JM is a communication specialist and educator. His two decades of experience spans the fields of journalism, multimedia arts, public relations and advocacy communication.
He is currently the Head of News and Public Relations of leading offshoring marketplace and advisory Outsource Accelerator (OA).
Prior to OA, JM worked as Senior News Producer of the now-defunct CNN Philippines. He also taught journalism, new media and communication subjects as an Assistant Professor in iACADEMY and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.
He started his career with GMA Network, serving as Researcher and Segment Producer for the award-winning GMA News Special Assignments Team.
Apple Gamboa
Life Editor
Apple is the Creative Team Lead for PayMaya, the leading digital financial services provider in the country. She was previously a Media Relations Manager for Ogilvy Philippines and an interview and field producer for GMA News programs Quick Response Team and News to Go. She was also a producer of lifestyle TV shows and documentaries.
Travelling and music are her passion, and taking risks is her reality medicine. Journalism 2010, UST.
Tricia Zafra
Relationships Editor
Tricia is a mental health professional, educator, journalist, and advocacy specialist.
She works as a clinical psychologist at Mind Care Center – Perpetual Help Medical Center, Childfam-Possibilities Psychological Services, and Argao Psych.
She also teaches at the University of the Philippines-Diliman Department of Psychology.
Prior to becoming a licensed psychologist, she had a 12-year career as a broadcast journalist, working as a correspondent and anchor for RPN 9 and GMA 7, and as an Executive Producer for CNN Philippines.
She worked in the humanitarian sector as a Communications Officer for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) – HongKong, and served in the government as the Chief of the Public Relations and Information Division of the Philippine Space Agency.
Tricia was part of VERA Files’ 2023 Media Ownership Monitoring as lead researcher, and among the Peer Supporters of the mental health and psychosocial support project of the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network Philippines (PECOJON).
Vegetarian. Painter. Scuba diver. Fur mom.
Topnotcher (Rank 2), 2023 Psychologists Licensure Examination.
Master’s in Psychology 2020, UP Diliman.
Broadcast Communication 2007 (cum laude), UP Diliman.
Edma Remillano
Advocacy Manager
Edma is a freelance communications professional and multimedia writer-producer with more than a decade of experience in news writing, multimedia production and storytelling.
She is part of the team that won GMA News the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for the news coverage of super typhoon Yolanda in 2013.
She is an advocate of human rights, media workers’ rights and women’s rights. She loves dogs, travelling, tattoos and crime shows. Most importantly, she is the proud owner-baker of her baby—the small, home-based business Edma Bakes.
Journalism 2010 (cum laude), UP Diliman.
Team SubSelfie.com
Bam Alegre
Co-Founder
Bam is the founder of SubSelfie.com and writes from time to time as a guest contributor.
He is a Senior News Correspondent and News Anchor for GMA News (2012). He was also part of the team that won GMA News the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for the news coverage of super typhoon Yolanda (2013).
Previously, he worked behind the scenes as a Segment Producer for State of the Nation with Jessica Soho and 24 Oras (2009-2012). He is also the vocalist, pianist and guitarist of the band No Parking (2005). BA Broadcast Communication 2007, UP Diliman. Read more of his articles here.
John Thimoty Romero
John Thimoty is a licensed professional teacher, a graduate of Philippine Normal University – Manila last 2017 as Bachelor of Secondary Education – Major in English. Upon his graduation, he received the Gawad Graciano Lopez – Jaena Co-Curricular Award for Campus Journalism.
He is the founder of Essays Against Mediocrity, a website dedicated to support independent authors, poets, and other content creators.
Kristoffer Pasion
Resident Historian
Kristoffer is a public historian working for the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. He has been serving in government for almost a decade, having worked as cultural officer for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (2011-2013), and as history researcher for the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines (2013-2016).
He runs the blog Indiohistorian, and does active history writing on social media. He is finishing his masteral studies in History at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, pursuing research on the history of government institutions.
Aries Oliveros
Aries has written textbooks on grammar and creative nonfiction and is currently an executive assistant at the Office of the Executive Director of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) – Central Luzon Campus.
He was formerly Chief of the Curriculum and Instruction Division and adviser of the school paper The Central Scholar. He studied Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in English at Philippine Normal University, Manila.
Sheena Kristine Cases
Sheena Kristine is a data analyst and a knowledge manager who is an advocate by heart. She believes in working with a purpose and for a cause greater than ourselves.
As a person who deals with a mood disorder, Sheena Kristine loves to write about Mental Health and General Psychology to help others learn from her experiences.
Most of her professional career was also devoted to the academe and international NGOs like Save the Children and Oxfam to seek and share knowledge. She had been a volunteer for Victory Church since 2010 doing various functions. She holds a B.S. Economics and an M.A. Demography degree from U.P. Diliman. Thus, she is also passionate to write about development.
Jervis Manahan
Jervis is a reporter of ABS-CBN Integrated News and Current Affairs. He is also teaching broadcast media courses at the Department of Media and Communication, Trinity University of Asia.
He is also an advicate of press freedom and media literacy. Outside work, he goes on outdoor adventures with the Travel Factor group. He has also written theatre plays for Short and Sweet Manila.
Gerald Gloton
Gerald is a Crisis Team Officer and visual story teller. Gerald is impassioned in capturing moments from field assignments and framing portraits of his subjects who have various messages for the world to witness.
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