Professional Experience

• ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly

  Assemblywoman

• Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC)

  Member

• ARMM Government

  Regional Legislative Assemblywoman

• Local School Board - Marawi

  Member

• UP Muslim Students Association

  President

• Muslim Youth and Students Alliance

  President

• Asian Peace Alliance

  Founding Member

• Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association

  Member

• AMANAH - Asian Muslim Action Network

  Contributor

• Young Moro Professionals Network (YMPN)

  Mindanao Coordinator

• Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy

  Convenor

• Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines

  Director

• Marawi Resort Hotel, Inc.

  Director

Significant Works/Projects

• Samira Gutoc

  One of the most popular figures for Muslim representation in the Philippines. Samira Gutoc has worked with an array of stakeholders for the past 17 years as a journalist, manager, consultant, environmentalist, trainor, activist and organizer. She has worked with projects supported by UNESCO, AUSAID, USAID, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to mainstream Muslim images in media publishing materials to popularize Code of Muslim Personal Laws among others. She was the first lady Muslim president of the UP Muslim Students Association and the Metro Manila-wide Muslim Youth and Students Alliance.

  She is noted as one of 500 Most Influential Muslims by Georgetown University's Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. She was nominated to The Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) and awarded by Junior Chamber International  (JCI) as one of the country’s The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) for Leadership.

• Upholding Displaced Persons' Rights

  • Provide compensation for Marawi residents who lost their property
  • Provide framework on how to assist and protect individuals forced out of their homes due to violence and conflict; the proposed bill will also include a framework for displaced individuals due to natural disasters and calamities
  • Institutionalize and systematize how authorities would keep tabs on missing persons and ensure the proper treatment of remains of victims of conflicts and disasters

• Accessibility for Healthcare & Utilities

  • Making healthcare more accessible
  • Proposes an audit of the pandemic funds, particularly for the spending in Marawi City. Speaks of lack of healthcare spending in Marawi City, compared to hospitals in Metro Manila
  • Lowering price of electricity

• Education

  • Free tertiary education

• Women's Rights & Empowerment

  • Called for the inclusion of women in combatting terrorism and in the decision-making and discussion of peace and security
  • Vowed to push for bills that would require local government units to establish local women’s councils and a comprehensive anti-discrimination policy

• Anti-discrimination against Muslims

  • Ensure that the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos would be active in giving Muslims, especially those outside Muslim Mindanao, access to burials that respect their traditions

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Environment

Family and Women's Rights

Labor/Worker's Rights

Global Politics

Previous Administration

• Inquirer | Feb. 10, 2020

  DOJ dismisses sedition raps vs Robredo, 2019 opposition bets

  – The Department of Justice (DOJ) has cleared Vice President Leni Robredo and members of the 2019 Senate opposition slate Otso Diretso of involvement in the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” videos. Members of the Otso Diretso slate included in the complaint by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) are former Magdalo party-list Representative Gary Alejano, former Senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino, former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay, Robredo’s election lawyer Atty. Romulo Macalintal, former Quezon Rep. Lorenzo Tañada III, Samira Gutoc-Tomawis and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno. Aside from the Otso Diretso members, also cleared are Senator Leila de Lima, former Senator Risa Hontiveros, Archbishop Socrates Villegas, Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, Bishop Honesto Ongtioco, Bishop Teodoro Bacani Jr., Fr. Ruben Reyes, Brother Armin Luistro, human rights lawyer Theodore Te, former Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) national president Atty. Abdiel Dan Elijah Fajardo, IBP’s incumbent national president Atty. Domingo Egon Cayosa. Also cleared are Atty. Minerva Ambrosio, Yolly Villanueva Ong, Danilo Songco, Atty. Philip Sawali and Atty. Serafin Salvador.