Mark Daza is a Project and Communications Manager at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), Harvard University’s academic and research center in humanitarian crisis and leadership. Mark has been leading strategic communications and social science research on disaster preparedness and climate resilience in the Philippines under HHI’s Program on Resilient Communities. Before joining HHI, Mark worked as a media producer, writer, and researcher for ABS-CBN Corporation. He devoted most of his journalism career to producing documentaries and specials on television and digital platforms that chronicled the struggles and triumphs of people afflicted with social problems. His stories focused on human rights, poverty, children’s rights and welfare, public health, education, labor and migration, and gender equality, among others.
Mark has also written for various organizations, such as the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Pioneers Post, the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, and the ASEAN Business Advisory Council. His writing, which primarily focused on micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and solutions journalism, earned him a Social Enterprise Journalism Fellowship from the British Council in 2016, and a Climate Journalism Fellowship from Climate Tracker and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in 2020. In 2021, the Thomson Reuters Foundation named him one of the global Changemakers committed to developing solutions to pressing human rights challenges such as climate change, socio-economic inclusion, and media freedom.
Mark obtained his BA in Communication Arts from the University of Santo Tomas.
