Ralph Eya is an independent art practitioner and cultural worker. His work spans across the fields of alternative education, community organizing, and new genre public art. Currently, he is focusing on expanding his art initiatives through regional engagements in the Philippines. Ralph's interdisciplinary practice seeks to contribute in activating individuals and the youth via artistic approaches in rights-based identity and critical consciousness formation, cultivating people's right to freely be involved in the cultural life through participatory and accessible means of creative production. He has produced and curated several exhibitions in partnership with various foundations and organizations and has presented his collaborative art praxis both locally and internationally. He is a fellow of the Artists for a Better World program of the Singapore International Foundation, a recipient of the Social Impact Initiative Prize of Megacities Organization Paris. Ralph attended the YCI Forum as a participant in 2018.