Born in Laminusa island, Sulu, Philippines, Mucha-Shim Lahaman Quiling is founding directress of the Lumah Ma Dilaut School for Living Traditions. A community organizer and cultural worker advocating for culturally-appropriate and liberating values-based education, she is also a United Nations lobbyist and has attended and spoken at the UN Working Group meetings on Minority issues (now U.N. Forum on Minorities) in Geneva, Switzerland, championing the issues of nomadic and pastoralist communities, indigenous/ethnic and religious minorities in diaspora and interrogating the appropriateness of mainstream development paradigms and human rights frameworks. She holds a Master’s degree in Communications from the Ateneo de Manila University and is currently working on a PhD in Interreligious Studies at Gajah Madah University, Indonesia.
