Maverick Avila
Lecturer

Maverick Avila is an online and broadcast journalist, multimedia producer, and playwright working on culture, human rights, and environmental stories as seen on Bulatlat, Mongabay, Al Jazeera, ASEF Culture360, ARTE TV, and PumaPodcast. He’s also a researcher with scholarly interests in gender and queer studies, digital storytelling, participatory media, and critical pedagogy. He is awarded fellow for Mongabay’s Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting, ASEF Arts Journalism, and World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.

His relevant theater works include a production grant for his first original play, Sama sa Mga Duwaan ni Inday (Just Like Inday’s Toy), F.L.A.M.E.S. (2023), Ang Kawatan (2026), and most recently, Nick Joaquin's Pinoy Agonistes staged at UP Cebu in 2026.

His latest study examines gender and the Duterte political dynasty in the Philippines, part of a transnational research collaboration with London School of Economics (LSE), City Hong Kong University (CityUHK), University of New South Wales (UNSW), and University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD).