Janet Susan R. Nepales is an award-winning journalist and the first
Filipina voting member and Associate of the Golden Globe Awards. She
has been a member since 2008 and has held various positions in the
association as an officer and board member and became the first Filipina
Executive Secretary and Treasurer. She was an executive producer of the
Golden Globes for four consecutive years. She is a Hollywood columnist
and correspondent of GMA-7 and the author of the coffee table book
“FASHION. Filipino. Hollywood. The World.”

Janet is also a Board Member of the Soho International Film Festival, the
Asian World International Film Festival and a co-Founder and Board
Member of the newly launched Manila International Film Festival.

Based in Los Angeles, Janet is a University of Santo Tomas (UST)
Journalism cum laude graduate who was recognized by the Filipina
Women’s Network (FWN) as one of the “100 Most Influential Filipino
Women in the U.S.” in 2012 and one of the “100 Most Influential Filipino
Women in the World” in 2013.

Janet recently was honored by the Los Angeles Press Club with three
Journalism awards during the 65 th Annual Southern California Journalism
Awards – 2 nd place in Entertainment News, Film/Broadcast-Online, 3 rd place
in Entertainment News or Feature-Foreign Correspondents, and 3 rd place in
Personality Profile-Foreign Correspondents.

She is a co-author of the first FWN book entitled DISRUPT: Filipina
Women: Proud. Loud. Leading Without A Doubt.