Salamat, Sec Dinky

Mai Mislang
11 min readSep 22, 2021

Working with Sec Dinky was never boring. In fact, it was the adventure of a lifetime.

The author with Sec Dinky during the Aquino-Roxas campaign in 2010

My early forays into the real world involved being an executive assistant (EA) and speechwriter of a well-known and well-respected Filipino public servant — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Juliano-Soliman.

I was lucky.

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Mai Mislang

Former presidential speechwriter, still a musician; owns a bakery, loves her dog. Tries to write more prose than poetry. Filipina from Manila.