Alex Lacson

Alexander L. Lacson is a Filipino poet, writer, inspirational speaker, lawyer, businessman, change advocate, civil society leader, NGO worker and a builder of hope. He is best known as the author of the famous book entitledLittle Things Every Filipino Can Do To Help Our Country., and for his poem I am Filipino which is now being memorized by many grade and high school students in the country.

Alex Lacson was born on January 5, 1965 in barangay Pinaginpinan, Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, the sixth ofchildren. His mother was a public school teacher who taught second grade elementary students in different barrios of Kabankalan. His father, who finished high school only, became a land surveyor and eventually a businessman. But his parents separated when Alex was still in high school. He finished grade school at a public school, Esteban R. Abada Memorial School in Kabankalan in 1978, graduating fifth in his batch. For his high school, he studied and finished at the Kabankalan Catholic College in 1982, where he was the salutatorian, CAT corps commander and student council president

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