NUPL-NCR Secretary General Atty. Krissy Conti: A People’s Lawyer Among Women of Power
She has not wavered amid relentless red-tagging, misogynist vitriol, and coordinated efforts to discredit her and the cause she serves.
March 25, 2025
NUPL
The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers is a nationwide voluntary association of human rights lawyers in the Philippines, committed to the defense, protection, and promotion of human rights, especially of the poor and the oppressed.

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) congratulates our Secretary General for the National Capital Region, Atty. Maria Kristina “Krissy” Conti, for being named one of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Women of Power 2025.

The recognition is well-deserved. Atty. Conti has spent the first decade of her legal career in the difficult work of people’s lawyering—representing victims of the Duterte administration’s drug war and those targeted by political repression. She has consistently defended the people’s rights in both legal and legislative arenas, walking into courtrooms, congressional hearings, and hostile online spaces with the same resolve: to speak truth to power.

She has not wavered amid relentless red-tagging, misogynist vitriol, and coordinated efforts to discredit her and the cause she serves.

May Atty. Conti’s work and example inspire a new generation of young women lawyers: to stay rooted in the people’s struggles for justice and democracy, and to walk past the lines drawn for them—not only to break the glass ceiling, but to build a better world beyond it.#

Reference:

Atty. Josalee S. Deinla
NUPL Secretary General
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