Marissa Cos-Alcantara, aCARM, Ph.D.

Mentor

Marissa C. Alcantara is currently the President of PIRKKO and TROY TOURS, INC. which specializes in pilgrimage Tours to the Holy Land and Europe, Special Interest Tours and worldwide cruises. Concurrently, she is the Assistant Academic Director of the Institute of Spirituality in Asia (ISA), a research and academic institute for the scholarly study of spirituality, and also a Faculty Member of the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies (IFRS). Marissa also sits as Board Member as well as Head of the Entrepreneurship Department of the Carmelite College in Siquijor.

Marissa received her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Organization Development specializing in Transformative Spirituality from SAIDI (2009) and completed her Carmelite Spirituality Course at Institute of Spirituality in Asia on the same year. She also completed the Managers Course from the Institute for Small Scale Industries at the University of the Philippines (2006).

She has attended numerous seminars and workshops locally and abroad from 2005 up to 2012 and has received recognition in the travel industry. Her experience qualify her to mentor students from the academe and business sectors.