MARIA CRISTINA S. GUERRERO or Crissy has worked on community forestry and indigenous peoples concerns over the last two decades. She has been a trainer and resource speaker on topics such as community enterprise development, ancestral domain delineation and management, non-timber forest products (NTFP) policy advocacy, participatory resource monitoring (PRM), traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous community conserved areas and climate change mitigation and adaptation. She finished her Bachelor’s degree in Business Management at the Ateneo de Manila and her Master’s degree in International Development at Cornell University, USA. She got her practical field experience in the island of Palawan in the Philippines and Indonesian Borneo. She is currently the Executive Director of the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) for South and Southeast Asia. She is one of the founders and current president of the CustomMade Crafts Center, a Philippine indigenous crafts marketing outfit.