Ging Hernandez

Carmencita "Ging" Hernandez (December 27, 1943 - December 6, 2011) was an activist most notable in her part in the anti-Marcos movement and women's rights movement in Canada.

Biography Carmencita Rocha Hernandez came to Canada in 1975, with a Masters of Science degree in finance from University of Minnesota.

In the 1970s, as the Philippines struggled under the Marcos dictatorship, Hernandez was one of the few activist leaders who led the Second Propaganda Movement against the Marcos dictatorship and formed the Toronto chapter of the Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship/Philippine Solidarity Network.

She co-founded the Kababayan Multicultural Centre, a settlement agency advocating for the rights of Filipino people in Toronto, where she served as a board member She was instrumental in setting up Kababayan's programs for the youth and women which took flight during her incumbency as president of Kababayan. She was one of the founders of the Coalition of Visible Minority Women (Ontario), which advocated for the rights of immigrant women in Canada.

In 1986, Hernandez was among the attendees of the inaugural meeting of the National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada, an umbrella national organization with a vision of creating equality for all women. She was elected the NOIVMWC Regional Vice President representing Ontario through which she organized with the Canadian Ethnocultural Council Women's Issues Committee. She spoke at events as a representative of a member organization of the national Coalition for a Just Refugee and Immigration Policy and as a panelist at various community, labour and feminist events.

Among Filipino organizations, she served as the chair of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Canadian-Filipino Associations (formerly United Council of Filipino Associations in Canada or UCFAC), a non-profit federal organization representing member associates across Canada formed in 1963 and incorporated in 1990. Being the regional representative of Greater Toronto Area. In 1992, Hernandez helped organize the first Filipino Canadian National Conference on Wife Abuse and Violence Against Women held in Montreal.