Dulce Saguisag - Early Life

Early Life

Dulce Saguisag was born Dulce Maramba Quintans on September 5, 1943. She received a bachelor's degree in social work from the University of the Philippines and placed third in the country in the 1964 National Board Examination for Social Workers.

She initially began her career as in 1964 at the Social Welfare Administration, which is now called the Department of Social Welfare and Development. She held a position of senior social worker at the SWA until 1965, when she became a supervising social worker and community center director.

Saguisag left the Philippines for the United States in 1967 after winning a grant by the US State Department to observe social work in the country. She was also recruited by the John F. Kennedy War on Poverty program while in the United States.

Saguisag won a scholarship to Boston College where she received a master's degree in social work, with an emphasis on community organization and social planning, in 1969.

She met her future husband, Rene Saguisag, a student at Harvard Law School, while studying at Boston College. The couple had two daughters and three sons during their marriage. Her hobies included collecting angel and Santa Claus figurines and ballroom dancing with her husband.