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Journalist, Essayist
August 28, 1940 – December 28, 2020
Domini Maristela Torrevillas-Daof was an essayist and journalist.
She was born in Anakan, Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental to Gregorio Torrevillas and Corazon Maristela Torrevillas.
After finishing high school at Gingoog Institute in 1956, she studied at Silliman University, earning her AB degree major in English in 1961.
She went into journalism soon after graduation, starting with a stint at the Manila Bulletin, becoming a staff writer and then editor of Panorama Magazine.
She studied at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois, earning her master’s degree in 1967.
At the height of Martial Law, she was—together with other women journalists such as Ceres Doyo, Arlene Babst, Sheila Coronel, Ninez Olivares, Betty Belmonte, Melinda de Jesus, Eugenia Apostol, Malou Mangahas, Tina Monzon-Palma, and Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc—subjected to military threats, harassment, and intimidation f