Rene Nachura is a consultant to many non-government organizations (NGOs) and peoples’ organizations in the area of organizational development and training. He is now concurrent chairperson of the Initiatives for Participatory Governance, Samar (IPGS) and the Philippine Network of Rural Development Institutes (Philnet-RDI). Rene was based in the United States in the 1980s, where he served as chair of the Philippine Center for Immigrant Rights (PhilCIR) and as consultant for the Church Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippine (CCHRP).