Sister Genie is a member of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic.
Born in Diadi, Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, and one of six children, Genie experienced the death of her father when she was seven. She lost her mother in 2003. Genie speaks Tagalog, Ilocano, English and Kiswahili. In college, she took psychology for 3 years but her studies were abruptly interrupted when she felt the need go as a contract worker to Malaysia to help her family. She was 19 years of age. There she met she met a Spanish religious community which did missionary work in Africa.

The thought of working in mission immediately had an impact on the young Genie which never waned. Unfortunately, her mother's objection to her daughter's going off to a far and distant land in Africa caused Genie to seek another path. She joined the Augustinian Sisters of Our Lady of Consolation for four years testing out her vocation to religious life.

She had another opportunity to realize her ambition of serving as a missionary in Africa when she met the Missionary Community of St. Paul the Apostle. She joined the community as a lay missionary and was sent to Turkana, Kenya. There, she worked in a nursery taking care of children ages 4-6 years. When her assignment was completed, Genie returned home to the Philippines and volunteered as a catechist at St. Joseph Parish where she assisted in organizing and animating the youth in her hometown.

Sister Genie finally found a home for her missionary heart when she entered the Maryknoll Sisters on August 11, 2007, after completing a live-in experience in various Maryknoll Sisters' houses in the Philippines. She spent two years in their Chicago orientation house in the United States, studying at the Catholic Theological Union while getting ministry experience working with the mentally challenged. She also did prison ministry to women and men at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center.

On Mission Sunday, October 18, 2009, the Maryknoll Sisters sent off Sr. Genie to her mission assignment in Tanzania, East Africa. There, she was involved in ministry to orphans, abused children and street children. She also worked in various women's groups, and those affected with HIV/AIDS. She spent 6 years in Tanzania applying what she had learned from Fr. Josef on foot reflexology. She applied this training in direct ways, but the most rewarding was seeing women whom she herself had trained apply this same skill first to each other, and then use it to supplement their income. Indeed, this was a mission of empowering poor women in Tanzania.

At present, Sr. Genie is assigned as Coordinator for Chi Rho Community(retired/elderly) sisters at their Center house in Maryknoll, New York.