Carissa Pobre (she/they) is a writer, strategist, and educator who grew up in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Her writings and work—comprising creative writing, community collaborations, and art as pedagogy—often enquire into the social formation of ‘writing lives’. Her multidisciplinary practice traverses topics on literature and art, class, and social action.
With over 10 years’ experience across multisectoral and multicultural spaces, she works as an independent writer and consultant—specialized in strategy development, communications, and ecosystem building—that shape strategies in culture and sustainability. Her work as a strategist encompasses issues in regenerative culture, climate action, alternative education, and local economic development. She also teaches creative writing and cultural studies.
In 2024, she was a participating artist at the SOMA international program in Mexico City for artistic and critical inquiry into collaborative pedagogical models. She is a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art and Regenerative Culture from the University of New Mexico, under Confluence MFA, a hybrid program to advance arts-based strategies for social engagement. Her latest project is slant school — an artistic-pedagogic project that inquires into the social formation of the Global South intellectual-activist, beginning with a series of experimental lectures on class politics, institutional education, and place/community, held in Metro Manila and Baguio in April 2025.
She is the author of Compositions (Everything’s Fine Press, 2023) and Formations (self-published, 2021), two books of essays and poetry that reckon with the autocritical and agency in language and art in various ways. For three years, she was the co-steer of the Agam Agenda climate-culture initiative that reimagined discourse on the climate crisis through storytelling and creative mobilizations, and produced the award-winning anthology Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis (Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities/Milflores Publishing, 2021). She is also co-editor of Makisawsaw Recipes x Ideas: Community Gardens Edition (Gantala Press, 2021), produced together with citizen action groups that organize community kitchens and urban food gardens in Metro Manila.
With over 10 years’ experience across multisectoral and multicultural spaces, she works as an independent writer and consultant—specialized in strategy development, communications, and ecosystem building—that shape strategies in culture and sustainability. Her work as a strategist encompasses issues in regenerative culture, climate action, alternative education, and local economic development. She also teaches creative writing and cultural studies.
In 2024, she was a participating artist at the SOMA international program in Mexico City for artistic and critical inquiry into collaborative pedagogical models. She is a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interdisciplinary Art and Regenerative Culture from the University of New Mexico, under Confluence MFA, a hybrid program to advance arts-based strategies for social engagement. Her latest project is slant school — an artistic-pedagogic project that inquires into the social formation of the Global South intellectual-activist, beginning with a series of experimental lectures on class politics, institutional education, and place/community, held in Metro Manila and Baguio in April 2025.
She is the author of Compositions (Everything’s Fine Press, 2023) and Formations (self-published, 2021), two books of essays and poetry that reckon with the autocritical and agency in language and art in various ways. For three years, she was the co-steer of the Agam Agenda climate-culture initiative that reimagined discourse on the climate crisis through storytelling and creative mobilizations, and produced the award-winning anthology Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis (Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities/Milflores Publishing, 2021). She is also co-editor of Makisawsaw Recipes x Ideas: Community Gardens Edition (Gantala Press, 2021), produced together with citizen action groups that organize community kitchens and urban food gardens in Metro Manila.
Contact:
carissapobre@gmail.com