Tasha Mañosa Tanjutco is a Filipina designer, National Geographic Young Explorer, and advocate for culture, climate, and children’s rights. She hopes to use visual design and curation to contribute a new perspective to the larger exploration of Filipino heritage, history, culture, and creativity as a soft power for sustainable development.
She hasworked with notable organizations and leading companies such as UNICEF, Save the Children, WWF, Oceana, PLDT-Smart, Museo Pambata, The European Union, The Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Bloc of the 18th Congress, and is one of the leads for the SouthEast Asia 30x30 Global Campaign for Nature with National Geographic and WYSS.
Since the age of 9, she has been visiting frontline communities affected by the climate crisis and was taught how creativity can save both people and the planet. At the age of 15 in 2015, she co-founded Kids for Kids Philippines along with her sister Isabella, a 100% youth-led organization that crafts creative and safe spaces for young people to enact change in local communities, to use optimistic action for a world wherein the child’s right to a safe environment is lived out everyday. The organization has grown to over 1500 volunteers worldwide, raised over $300,000 for typhoon relief operations & sustainable climate efforts, working with and for Filipino communities even in the most remote islands.
In 2018 she co-founded TAYO, meaning “we” or “to stand '' in Filipino, a multidisciplinary change agency and design studio (and mother company) grounded on culture and collaboration for positive ecological and societal transformation. The company’s projects focus on design solutions, from brand development, social media strategy, children’s books, and art festivals, always with and for a deeper purpose, and stem from neo-vernacular Filipino aesthetics in hopes of a cultural revolution.
She continues to creative direct and curate for TAYO and it’s subsidiaries as above everything else, she values the brilliant community of young people she gets to work with and for daily.
She hasworked with notable organizations and leading companies such as UNICEF, Save the Children, WWF, Oceana, PLDT-Smart, Museo Pambata, The European Union, The Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Bloc of the 18th Congress, and is one of the leads for the SouthEast Asia 30x30 Global Campaign for Nature with National Geographic and WYSS.
Since the age of 9, she has been visiting frontline communities affected by the climate crisis and was taught how creativity can save both people and the planet. At the age of 15 in 2015, she co-founded Kids for Kids Philippines along with her sister Isabella, a 100% youth-led organization that crafts creative and safe spaces for young people to enact change in local communities, to use optimistic action for a world wherein the child’s right to a safe environment is lived out everyday. The organization has grown to over 1500 volunteers worldwide, raised over $300,000 for typhoon relief operations & sustainable climate efforts, working with and for Filipino communities even in the most remote islands.
In 2018 she co-founded TAYO, meaning “we” or “to stand '' in Filipino, a multidisciplinary change agency and design studio (and mother company) grounded on culture and collaboration for positive ecological and societal transformation. The company’s projects focus on design solutions, from brand development, social media strategy, children’s books, and art festivals, always with and for a deeper purpose, and stem from neo-vernacular Filipino aesthetics in hopes of a cultural revolution.
She continues to creative direct and curate for TAYO and it’s subsidiaries as above everything else, she values the brilliant community of young people she gets to work with and for daily.