Vernie Yocogan-Diano is a Kankanaey-Bontok human rights defender. She volunteers in indigenous women’s organizations in the Philippines, providing writing and training services. She spent more than two decades with indigenous women organizations in the Cordillera and with human rights defenders in the Philippines. She serves as trainer-facilitator to the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) on feminist participatory action research.