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Graduate Student, MA in Media Studies (Broadcast) program of the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Mass Communication

Treasurer, UP CMC Graduate Students' Association

Allison Anne Gray Atis (she/her) is a writer, researcher, scholar, and graphic designer with over a decade of media, communication, and marketing experience from various industries such as events management, logistics, and telecommunications. She also has international experience in a World Bank-funded consultancy project for DPWH. 

She has taught media & communication courses and worked on research projects in the University of the Philippines Diliman and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Manila.  She also held an administrative position in PUP Manila as a faculty coordinator, handling projects under the Special Program and Projects Office and the University's Gender and Development Committee. These are all prior to focusing on leading efforts on media & communications, creatives, research, and project management for various organizations, both local and abroad. She now works as the Operations Lead for Liz Cruz Consulting, a US-based coaching and consulting company specializing on queer leadership and is also a core team member of the Queer Leadership Lab, working alongside coaches and consultants focused on queer leadership, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. 

She is a graduate student (final thesis defense stage) in the MA in Media Studies (Broadcast) program of the University of the Philippines Diliman, specializing in media and gender studies, media culture and practice, postmodernism, and popular culture. She has presented in various local and international conferences, has been invited as a resource speaker in different academic events and shows, and has published critical pieces on media studies. Her current research projects are on myths about women in the Filipino female superhero Darna texts (MA thesis), ‘queering’ Darna, an encyclopedia entry on Queer Theory co-authored with Dr. Jen Self, LICSW, a chapter in an upcoming edited collection about Taylor Swift, and continuing critical analyses of popular texts and contexts guided by critical-cultural, feminist, queer, indigenous, and intersectional lens.

•  Atis, A., Murad, N., Sison, H. (2024). “From Purple to Pink: The Filipino ARMY for Leni and the Fight for Good Governance,” in Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader. Duke University Press.
• Atis, A. (2023). “The ‘Social’ in Social Media: A Glimpse at Building And Sustaining Communities In And Thru Social Media.” In Taumbayan: Emerging Forms of Youth Engagement & Activism. Young Public Servants.
• Atis, A. (2019). “Radyo Puplonganon/Siday,” in Volume 10 – Broadcast Arts. Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art.
• Atis, A. (2019). “Beauty and the Beat: Female Radio DJs, Media Convergence, and the Proliferation of Media’s Idea of Beauty,” LOVA Journal of Gender Studies and Feminist Anthropology.
• Atis, A. (2019). “Of Interactions, Interpretations, and Participations: Perspectives on a Die-Hard Duterte Supporters On-line Group,” Philippines Communication Society (PCS) Review 2018 on Misinformation and Media Manipulation. pp. 199-209.