- brief bio and professional background
- description of current work, projects in the island
- statement of motivation and expected outcomes from the course
- short video introduction
Randy Nobleza is an academic with almost 20 years of experience. He is an advocate for gender, environment, heritage and creative innovations. He’s a mentor of young creatives, innovators and changemakers. He has contributed and continues to be involved in local culture, traditions, rights of nature and heritage education. He is a facilitator for cultural mapping, heritage inventory. He was part of a technical evaluation committee for grassroots innovation, saliklakbay (saliksik-research, lakbay-adventure) immersion and solutions mapping. He was an Island Innovation Ambassador and founding representative of Island Innovation Academic Council.
At the moment, Randy Nobleza is serving the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) of the Marinduque State University (MarSU) as a research coordinator. He handles courses in foreign language (Japanese), Philippine Popular Culture, Cross Cultural Communication and Introduction to Communication, Culture and Society. He has worked for the fruition of the Marinduque centennial in 2020 just before the global pandemic. He continued with the 400 founding anniversary of Marinduque’s capital town of Boac. He is a constant supporter of Union Locale, the emerging creative industries in Marinduque and the region of Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan). He is also handling some courses in Graduate Diploma in Cultural Education (GDCE) in La Consolacion University, Philippines, Isabela State University and MarSU. He also sits in research panels, as an external panelist and reviewer of both graduate and postgraduate in Manila Business College, Philippine Women’s Unibersity, Quezon Educational College Inc and Eastern Quezon College.
In 2023, during the better half of my sabbatical I have been selected as an Island Innovation Ambassador. I took up the Islands of Innovation online course and was selected in the social innovation challenge. But during the third quarter, I was involved in a car accident with my father and wife. Luckily, we all survived. I have been a faculty scholar and received fellowships and endowment for my academic work. I feel obliged to return the favor and have a return service to my island. I believe there must be a reason for a second chance. I hope I can still continue what I have started in 2023 and prior to that in making a difference in Marinduque, the heart of the Philippine archipelago.
I am Randy Nobleza, I come from Marinduque, heart of the Ph archipelago
in 2023 I was an Island Innovation ambassador. and become a founding member of Island Innovation academic council.
But in August 20, 2023 together with my family, we met an accident in Tiaong, Quezon en route to my island. It took us at least five months to recover with head trauma, broken bones and all.
I was able to come back in July 2024, Marinduque State College was already converted to Marinduque State University.
Since September 2024 to April 2025, Department of Science and Technology (DOST Mimaropa) gave me a break to go around my neighboring islands for Grassroots Innovation for Inclusive Development (GRIND). That was my chapter of book contribution for Seas of Change and I hope it would get published soon. I hope this online course would guide me to serve my island better.