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Trina is a founding parent and teacher, and is Chairperson of the College of Teachers of AWS. She has served the school as a Waldorf education advocate, Kindergarten and French language teacher in the early years of Acacia. She was a Main Teacher in Grade School for eight years and an Upper School Class Sponsor for a year, for the graduating class of Kaimito. She currently teaches Art and some Humanities blocks in the Upper School.
Trina grew up in Manila, attended Assumption College until High School, and the Ateneo de Manila University for College, where she graduated with a Degree in Bachelor of Arts Major in Interdisciplinary Studies. After college, she lived in Switzerland and studied French and Music in Lausanne. When she got back to Manila, she joined her family’s business and had the opportunity to work in CCP Theater on the side. Art, music and acting have always been her passion.
In 1999, a search for a more holistic education for her two young children led her to start a Waldorf inspired playgroup at her home together with her two sisters, a helper, and seven children. She named the playgroup The Secret Garden. The playgroup slowly grew, and four years later in 2003, out of this initiative was born the Acacia Waldorf School in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
Also in 1999, together with some of the founding teachers of Acacia School, Trina attended a three-year Waldorf Steiner Teacher Training Course on Early Childhood Education organized by the International Association of Waldorf Kindergartens, in collaboration with Rudolph Steiner Education Association of the Philippines (RStEP). She has since then been continuing her own Waldorf Steiner education by organizing and attending yearly Waldorf Steiner training programs and attending conferences on Waldorf Steiner education both in the Philippines and abroad.