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Angela Perez Baraquio: A Beacon of Grace and Leadership for the Marine Foundation Hawaii and Oceania
Angela Perez Baraquio, a woman of remarkable achievements and unwavering principles, has carved a unique path that merges beauty, intellect, and service. Her journey from being crowned Miss America 2001 to her current role as President of the Marine Foundation Hawaii and Oceania is a compelling narrative of resilience, leadership, and a profound commitment to empowering women and children.
In leading the Marine Foundation Hawaii and Oceania, Angela personifies the organization’s guiding principle: “Honoring Women and Children First.” Her story inspires hope and action, reflecting the power of faith, education, and compassion in transforming communities. Angela’s ability to seamlessly weave her diverse roles as an educator, advocate, media personality, and leader makes her a beacon for positive change across Hawaii, Oceania, and beyond.
From Humble Beginnings to Historic Achievement
Angela’s inspiring journey began on June 1, 1976, as the eighth of ten children in a Filipino immigrant family. Her parents, hailing from Pangasinan, Philippines, worked tirelessly to provide for their children, instilling values of faith, discipline, and a deep respect for education. Growing up in Hawaii, Angela witnessed firsthand the challenges and sacrifices of immigrant families, which shaped her resolve to excel and give back to her community.
Angela graduated magna cum laude from Moanalua High School in 1994 and pursued her passion for education at the University of Hawaiʻi. Her dedication earned her a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with an emphasis on speech, followed by a master’s degree in educational administration. These academic milestones underscored her belief in the transformative power of learning, a value she continues to champion in her leadership today.
Her historic win as Miss America 2001, where she became the first Asian American, Filipino American, and educator to earn the title, was a personal triumph and a milestone for representation and diversity. Angela’s platform, centered on character education, resonated with audiences nationwide, highlighting the importance of instilling values such as respect, responsibility, and compassion in young people. Her win brought pride not only to Hawaii but also to the Filipino community and educators worldwide.
A Multifaceted Career
Angela’s career is a testament to her versatility and dedication. Before her rise to fame, she taught physical education at Holy Family Catholic Academy in Honolulu, where she also served as athletic director and coach. Her hands-on approach to teaching and mentorship extended beyond the classroom, inspiring students to strive for excellence in academics and sports.
As her public profile grew, Angela embraced opportunities to amplify her advocacy. She appeared on various media platforms, from hosting television programs such as Living Local with the Baraquios to serving as a panelist on MTV’s Pageant School: Becoming Miss America. These roles allowed her to reach broader audiences while staying true to her message of character-building and community engagement.
Angela also took on leadership roles in education, notably as the principal of St. Anthony of Padua School in California. Her work as an administrator reflected her commitment to fostering environments where students could thrive academically and morally.
Leadership in the Marine Foundation
As President of the Marine Foundation Hawaii and Oceania, Angela has found a platform perfectly aligned with her values and vision. The Marine Foundation’s mission to prioritize women and children mirrors Angela’s lifelong dedication to nurturing and empowering society’s most vulnerable members.
In this role, Angela brings her extensive experience and unique perspective to address the region’s diverse challenges. Her leadership emphasizes a holistic approach integrating education, cultural preservation, and community development. She has spearheaded initiatives designed to uplift women as leaders, protect children’s rights, and preserve the rich cultural heritage of Hawaii and Oceania.
Key Initiatives Under Angela’s Leadership
1 – Character Education Programs: Angela continues to champion character education, designing workshops and curricula that emphasize moral values such as integrity, empathy, and resilience. These programs have reached schools and communities across Hawaii, fostering a generation of socially responsible young leaders.
2 – Empowerment of Women: Angela has initiated mentorship programs and leadership training for women, equipping them with the skills and confidence to lead in various spheres. By highlighting women’s contributions and creating opportunities for their growth, Angela ensures that women play a central role in shaping the future of their communities.
3 – Support for Underserved Children: Angela’s initiatives prioritize access to quality education, healthcare, and extracurricular opportunities for children in disadvantaged areas. Her programs aim to break the cycle of poverty by equipping children with the tools they need to succeed.
4 – Cultural Heritage Projects: Angela understands the importance of preserving Hawaii and Oceania’s unique cultural identity. Under her guidance, the Marine Foundation has organized events and projects that celebrate and protect the region’s traditions, languages, and art forms.
A Voice for Values-Based Leadership
Angela’s advocacy extends beyond education to encompass broader social and moral issues. A devout Catholic, she has been a prominent voice for pro-life causes, reflecting her belief in the sanctity of human life. Her political engagements, including her service on President George W. Bush’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, demonstrate her commitment to values-based leadership.
Her participation in the National Prayer Breakfast and her endorsement of Senator Sam Brownback’s presidential campaign highlights her dedication to integrating faith and ethics into public discourse. Angela’s ability to gracefully and authentically navigate the intersection of politics, religion, and education has earned her respect across diverse audiences.
A Champion for Women and Children
Angela’s work with the Marine Foundation embodies the organization’s principle of “Honoring Women and Children First.” She recognizes that empowering women and nurturing children is essential to building resilient and thriving communities. Angela’s initiatives are rooted in the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to realize their potential regardless of background or circumstance.
Through her leadership, Angela has amplified the voices of women and children, ensuring their needs and aspirations are at the forefront of the Marine Foundation’s work. Her empathetic approach and her strategic vision have transformed challenges into opportunities for growth and empowerment.
A Vision for the Future
Angela’s vision for the Marine Foundation Hawaii and Oceania is inclusivity, innovation, and sustainability. She envisions a region where women lead boldly, children dream freely, and communities work collaboratively to overcome barriers. By fostering partnerships with local leaders, international organizations, and grassroots movements, Angela aims to create lasting solutions to systemic challenges.
Her leadership has already made a tangible impact, inspiring a ripple effect of positive change across Hawaii and Oceania. As she continues to expand the Marine Foundation’s reach, Angela remains steadfast in her commitment to creating a world where every child is educated, every woman is empowered, and every community is uplifted.
Conclusion
Angela Perez Baraquio Grey’s journey is a testament to the transformative power of faith, education, and service. From her historic win as Miss America to her impactful leadership in the Marine Foundation, Angela has consistently demonstrated what it means to lead with integrity, compassion, and purpose.
As President of the Marine Foundation Hawaii and Oceania, Angela has elevated the organization’s mission to honor women and children, setting a powerful example for leaders worldwide. Her work inspires hope, fosters unity, and creates opportunities for those who need them most.
Angela’s legacy is one of personal achievement and collective progress. Her story reminds us that true greatness lies in uplifting others and creating a future where everyone, regardless of background, has the chance to thrive. Through her leadership, Angela Perez Baraquio Grey has become a symbol of empowerment and hope, leaving an indelible mark on Hawaii, Oceania, and the world.
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Angela Perez Baraquio
Miss America & President of the Marine Foundation Hawaii & Oceania
Welcoming the Youth Network Ambassadors
The Youth Network Ambassadors Agency (YNA) serves as a global force for unity and progress, comprising dedicated leaders from across the world, tasked with expanding the Marine Foundation’s influence to 241 nations. By the end of 2024 or early 2025, the Foundation aims to surpass 100 million members, connected through the app Telegram, which enables anyone with a phone to join. Central to YNA’s mission is the Universal Birth Certificate initiative, which will provide every child with lifelong care and services, especially in regions where youth are often overlooked. Unlike conventional platforms, the Marine Foundation directly supports its members through sponsorships, fostering opportunities in education, healthcare, and professional development. As the Foundation’s membership expands like water flowing through the world, YNA is poised to become the largest, most inclusive global network, embodying a system of governance that promotes peace, stability, and love among all nations.
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The Marine Foundation: Capabilities
The Marine Foundation has established its 241 nations territory of development with each country’s template represented in its official presentation website. The foundation is an umbrella of over 30 agencies (franchises) of projects and programs to pursue the economic restoration of a region through education, technology, medical, tourism, and infrastructure.
The platform now initiates the “Wealth Legacy Academia Club” to host and welcome the position of at least one thousand Billionaires incited and interested in the economic growth of all developing regions of the world through infrastructural, health, and educational projects.
In addition to its signature projects for rebuilding nations, the Marine Foundation is also established as a Multi-Media Production & Entertainment structure with an International “Annual Event” platform and several online and offline mass membership structure systems. Furthermore, it wants to use the channels of educational media and cultural, social, and familial celebrations to promote peaceful relations throughout its expansion.
The institutional structure of the foundation is meticulously controlled by a “Brand” (MARINEF Brand), where the “brand legislature” protects the foundation’s organizational structure with a constitution and the supervisorial platform of an International Brand Sharing and Ownership Committee of 360 members worldwide. In addition, this conglomerate of shared brand ownership is monitored under the ruling of a “Universal Constitution,” which dictates high morals and governance standards of coherent common sense within the businesses and institutions the foundation produces with the deployment of its brand-associated agencies.
Added the grandeur of becoming a leading Public Relations platform, the Marine Foundation is essentially built to be an environment of systems and policies that stand for zero tolerance for promiscuousness or any detriment or harm to human life and the environment with the absolute protection of children and mothers. The forum welcomes the genius collective minds and hearts of every individual whose passion is for love, light, and the safety and prosperity of all our children.
The Marine Foundation is designed to be a giant interconnecting spiderweb of human managerial communications systems that copies the conception of universal rules instituted in the functioning of the created universe. It relies on establishing rigid human rules of respect for life and the environment as per the example behavior of the physical world that surrounds us and makes up the unconditional functioning mechanism of our body and mind.
Introduction to the Marine Foundation's structural concept
Education, project development, and marketing through international events make us a movement of reforms where the agenda takes economic rebirth a prerequisite duty wherever it would establish. Among other systems, our educational planning revolves around 3 reforms in content: Sea Campus Universal (15000 children per school), Global University of Technology & Development, and Ocean Universal (complete maritime education). Focusing on these sectors only would help reconstruct any region or improve already developed countries' status.
We are a "peaceful" movement. We talk of peace in the substance in the look of an "olympiad philosophical concept" or a place where there can be no conflicts. For example, in the Olympic Organization, based on the disciplines of sports rules, people worldwide gather together to dispute titles for medals. Here we see that sporting rules govern nations' relations during 2 weeks of events, every 4 years. This is indeed the example of a peaceful concept, where common sense takes over, and participation requires neutralizing religious, cultural, or political backgrounds for a while.
The Marine Foundation centers its ruling in gathering its network around the values of the birth of humanity and so the birth of life itself. The undeniable truth of the reality of the mother's womb brings out our biological commonality. For that reason, our corporate ruling proclaims and demands a standard of absolute respect for life and the environment. From that understanding, our management system and ideological backgrounds must leave common sense in perfect human relations of absolute respect. Peace has a chance to flourish in the understanding that we all come from the same birthplace. The Marine Foundation is a practitioner of the rules in the context of membership and leadership communications, enticing diversities to come and work together under the banner of education and celebration. Even when it comes to cultural traditions, religions, or political parties, the one who loves and respects the most will ultimately become the champion of attraction and popularity.
5 Main Executive Central Committees:
- The 1st executive committee is mainly internal, and consists of the Board of Brand Owners made up of 360 members representing the 360 degrees of a perfect circle. Each day of the year will represent one member making it 360 days celebration. They represent as a group the core supervisory membership through actual unique ownership of the branding of the Marine Foundation.
- The 2nd executive committee is the First Ladies Club, where the leadership would represent the voice of Mother Earth as a supervisory and voting power to our educational project Development structure. This is the keyframe by which "women" become the absolute standard about birth education and the celebration of life.
- The 3rd executive committee is the diplomatic membership of the United Five Ocean's platform (U5O). U5O represents the 5 continents united into a "Club of all Nations" where diplomats mingle, representing their cultures and come together under the vicinity of the continental regions their nation belongs to. In addition, U50, or Club of all Nations, serves to support economic growth through supporting the Public Sector with information and event gathering services.
- The 4th committee is the Executive Club Assembly, which attracts successful business leaders (men or women) to unite under the honorary naval title of "Admiral" to identify and celebrate their potential to become role models of modern societies to lead the next generation to prowess through their example and presence within the Marine Foundation's platform.
- The 5th committee is the Billionaires Legacy Academia Club, which is a council for infrastructural restoration, where extremely wealthy people have a chance to gather in the discussion of megaproject development, maritime or on land, to seek the harmony of communication of our planet through transport projects such as bridges, tunnels, and an international highway concept. Marine Foundation runs uniquely under the umbrella banner of its own branding through the organizational establishment of mass membership platforms and a large event organization system. The creation of these 2 large communications sectors gives it an unparallel control over sponsorship. It will allow it to round up the entire world under large media publications and production platforms.
2 Mass Communication Platforms:
Wikinations: An educational and commercial online portal connecting 240 nations into a giant international Chamber of Commerce online via educational web design & PR concept. To that effect, it takes after the business model of Wikipedia's example who plays more the role of an encyclopedia. In contrast, "wikinations" will become a tourism information center & regional promoter, with a corporate membership within for businesses to expose their services right within the platform. Thus, not only will it become an educational tool to institutions around the world, but it will also serve as reference governments to show off their nation under the banner of attractive beauty and production media to attract investors and developers.
Global Citizens Live Association (GCLA) is a mass membership social platform that caters to any individuals but targeting mainly the family member with a zero tolerance to promiscuity and where values of respect in human communications are taken to the maximum extent of the moral ethics. GCLA becomes an automatic educational incentive as it is connected directly to "wikinations" with exposing flags into the member's dashboard instead of faces first. By flirting the cursor upon the flag image of a new contact, the member receives the immediate option to open the flag's wikinations page for a quick overlook of that person's nation. Contacts stay hidden under the flag of provenance, and opening the contacts dashboard is optional. Meaning that the member becomes more interested in showing how many flags show up on the member's dashboard than showing off faces of people who can stay categorically hidden behind their flag of provenance. The platform will become a "must" to learn geography and culture rapidly through real-time communication between members. Reaching a full dashboard of 240 flags would mean that a person has friends all over the world while becoming familiar with the existence of 240 nations.
One Mega Event Organization Platform
The worldwide network of the Marine Foundation (MARINEF- ADN) has the unique privilege to connect to an entire event organization divided into Festivals, Symposiums, Exhibits, and Sports. The design of 50 international annual events is set to help promote quality tourism to benefit economically any region where the foundation is established. Events are also good media to promote the causes of projects and programs' involvement with information media distributed continuously and sustainably. The event opportunities will also affect supporting areas with promotional tools to attract investment and developments to places that need exposure to the world.
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The First Ladies Club
The First Ladies Club is an assembly of some of the world’s most extraordinary and influential women, recognized for their social and leadership roles within their respective societies. They form a charismatic platform dedicated to fostering innovation and improvement in all educational realms, and to maintaining harmonious relations among all people by initiating substantial projects and agencies focused on protecting women and children globally. As vocal advocates and guardians of the Marine Foundation’s core philosophical themes and constitution, they champion respect for life and the environment as fundamental principles in all human interactions. The group’s ethos is rooted in the understanding that from the moment of birth, all humanity is biologically equal and invaluable, a truth born from the sanctity of the mother’s womb. The Club aims to be a global voice that inspires business and social alliances, supporting the Marine Foundation’s commitment to developing local economies through sustainable projects, and organizing impactful annual events and media gathering. Official page of the First Ladies Club
