Justine Ang Fonte is a child of immigrants from Romblon and Nueva Vizcaya, an award-winning health educator, ghostwriter, and professor. She has sat on the Board of Directors of Roots of Health/Ugat Ng Kalusugan since 2011.

A math teacher by trade, she remotely managed an after-school reading and math Learning Center in her father’s hometown province of Romblon for ten years. After her teaching experience, Justine pursued a career path in public health after witnessing the direct effects of health disparities impacting students’ academic achievement in her U.S. middle school classrooms.

Studying the paths to reproductive justice, Justine worked with the Philippine Center for Population & Development evaluating the Department of Education’s Adolescent Reproductive Health curriculum as a visiting researcher at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati.

She then received her Master’s in Education in Teaching from the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa and her Master’s in Public Health in Sexuality from Columbia University.

Notable features of Justine’s robust career include The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Glamour, and the BBC and Hulu docuseries, Planet Sex. And according to a Buzzfeed list, Justine is one of 13 sex educators who teaches people what they really need to know when it comes to sex. On Instagram, she’s known as “Your Friendly Ghostwriter,” composing the texts you avoid sending about setting your boundaries.

Justine is also the co-creator of Raised Pinay, with fellow board member Rachelle Peraz Ocampo, showcasing five generations of Filipina narratives in New York City since 2016.