Cathy Untalan

Catherine "Cathy" Yu Untalan-Vital is a Filipino environmentalist, fashion model, psychologist, and beauty queen. She competed and won the beauty title of Miss Philippines-Earth 2006 and the international Miss Earth Water 2006. She is the executive director of Miss Earth Foundation, the environmental-social-humanitarian outreach arm of Miss Earth beauty pageant. She is a TV anchor at People's Television Network in the Philippines.[2]

In this Philippine name for married women, the birth middle name or maternal family name is Yu, the birth surname or paternal family name is Untalan, and the marital name is Vital.

Cathy Untalan
Born
Catherine Yu Untalan

(1985-08-08) August 8, 1985
Manila, Philippines
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Beauty pageant titleholder
TitleMiss Philippines Earth 2006
Miss Earth – Water 2006
Hair colorBlack
Eye colorBrown
Major
competition(s)		Miss Philippines Earth 2006
(Winner)
Miss Earth 2006
(2nd Runner-Up/Miss Water)

Background

Catherine Untalan finished her high school education at St. Paul College of Parañaque. She graduated cum laude in Psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman and received her diploma in Environment and Natural Resource Management from the University of the Philippines Open University and is currently pursuing her masters in Coastal Track on the same university.[3][4]

On August 18, 2006, she cohosted the awards night of Moonrise Film Festival, an annual film festival covering various environmental and cultural issues, sponsored by the Center for Environmental Awareness and Education, which was held at the Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City.[5]

She was a courtside reporter for the San Beda Red Lions during the first half of the 82nd season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Two years later, she became the courtside reporter for her alma mater's team, the UP Fighting Maroons during the University Athletic Association of the Philippines' 67th season.[3][6][7]

She is the spokesperson of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources for various campaigns and of the Philippine Department of Health for their anti-tobacco smoking campaign. The Sustainable Energy Development Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) also chose her to be the spokesperson of their biofuels campaigns. The USAID cited her efforts and participation in their programs and she was awarded an environmental ambassador recognition, the first to be given such distinction by the agency. She hosted a show in NBN Channel 4 entitled Kapihan ng Bayan with veteran broadcast journalists, Mario Garcia and Ely Saludar. Currently, she's a columnist in the first green lifestyle magazine in the Philippines, called, Gen G Magazine.[8][9]

Beauty pageant

She was crowned Miss Philippines Earth 2006. She represented Philippines at Miss Earth 2006 and she won Miss Water (2nd Runner-up).[1]

See also

References
  1. Vanzi, Sol Jose (May 12, 2006). "Miss Philippines-Earth tilt continues to reinvent itself". Philippine Headline News Online. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  2. "Miss Earth Philippines winners: Where are they now?". Rappler. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  3. Dimaculangan, Jocelyn (March 4, 2008). "RP showbiz personalities who excel academically". GMA Network Inc. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
  4. Avante, Wells (November 14, 2006). "Global beauties campaign against global warming". Philippine Entertainment Portal Inc. Archived from the original on May 21, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
  5. Online News, Inquirer & GMA 7 (August 12, 2006). "Moonrise Film Festival a Must See". www.inq7.net. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
  6. Escandor Jr., Juan (March 19, 2009). "Cop tells kids: Help mangroves". The INQUIRER Network. Archived from the original on March 22, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
  7. Roberto, Julles (March 12, 2009). "Bakawan Children's Book Launching". Woman of the Earth. Archived from the original on May 24, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
  8. "Meet more champs: Earth advocate". Philippine Daily Inquirer/The INQUIRER Network. March 11, 2009. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
  9. "DENR, Miss Earth join hands to save nature". Manila Bulletin. April 7, 2007. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2009 – via Highbeam.
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