John Carlos delos Reyes – Ang Kapatiran candidate for President

Name: John Carlos “J.C.” Gordon delos Reyes

Running for: President

Political Party: Ang Kapatiran

Biography:

Born February 14, 1970, married to Dunia Valenzuela with three children, Gabriel 10, Santiago 8 and Barbara 6.

JC studied in Ateneo de Manila for his elementary education and De la Salle Zobel for high school. He finished his B.A. in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.A. He finished his post graduate studies in Public Administration at the University of the Philippines in 1999 and obtained his Bachelors degree in law from Saint Louis University, Baguio City .

His work experience includes being an instructor of Philosophy in the University of Asia and the Pacific under the tutelage of Fr. Joseph de Torre, a Spanish priest of the Holy Cross who wrote extensively on the social teachings of the Church. He is the proprietor of Legobrick Systems and Designs, a company in the business of manufacturing clay bricks to build genuine brick homes.

He is also the executive director of Breaking the Yoke of Poverty Foundation whose project is Jubilee homes for the Poor at New Cabalan, Olongapo which has provided shelter for 60 poor families and Lead Animator of Solidarity Philippines, a movement to pro-actively advance the social justice agenda of the Church.

Currently, he is an elected Councilor of Olongapo City. His long time friendship with Nandy Pacheco, founder of Ang Kapatiran, who he worked with as early as 1996 led him to be the only winner of the party from among 30 national and local bets in the 2007 election. His election was a political comeback after a nine year hiatus from local politics (JC was first elected councilor in 1995).

His political career has mostly centered on countering traditional politics by asserting the principle of subsidiarity and the prophetic politics of personal and social transformation.

His passion and mission is to work toward genuine social justice.