Deborah Carlos Valencia

Deborah Carlos-Valencia (born ), sometimes written as Deborah Valencia, is a Filipino social worker, feminist, founder of the Kasapi Union, and co-founder of the Melissa Network, an organization that brings together leaders of the established migrant community in Greece.

Personal life Carlos-Valencia is a Filipino feminist and community leader who fled the Philippines to Greece during the Marco dictatorship in 1985. and son followed her to Greece some years later. She was aged 70 in 2019.

Life in Greece

After arrival in Greece, Carlos-Valencia co-founded the Melissa Network in Athens in 2014 The organization is a based in Victoria Square in central Athens, amidst a community where far-right anti-migrant sentiment is high.

Six years after her arrival in Greece, in 2020, Carlos-Valencia was one of the 2.9% of Filipinos to obtain Greek citizenship.