With multiple international certifications in permaculture design, phytomedicine, aromatherapy, and whole-food, plant-based nutrition, Weng, who is also a French pastry chef, brings global expertise in circular economy and green technology innovation to AGILE’s co-creation mission. Grounded in her mastery of sustainable living and homesteading practices honed in Canada and South Africa—where she founded and managed Everyday Green Solutions and Nature’s Creation, researching and developing eco-friendly products and green technology solutions—she returned to the Philippines with a conviction that every community deserves its own sustainable development path.

As a material innovator, Weng leverages two decades of invention and entrepreneurship to prototype solutions that empower grassroots social artisans and entrepreneurs. Her flagship MagicBag heat-retention slow cooker—celebrated by the Department of Science and Technology’s Technology Application and Promotion Institute for transforming sustainable living and backed by a DOST Innovation Technopreneurship grant—uses low-energy cooking methods to deliver eight hours of simmering and sixteen hours of retained heat, while her solar-stove design offers low-emission cooking solutions for off-grid communities.

As a social innovator, Weng reflects AGILE’s commitment to co-creating practical, eco-industrial solutions from the ground up. On her social media sites, she shares tutorials on hands-on sustainability solutions—creating open-access learning spaces that empower marginalized communities to lead their own development journeys. Partnering with local government units and non-government organizations, she translates circular economy principles into hands-on workshops with fishermen, farmers, out-of-school youth, LGBTQ+ individuals, and parents of children with disabilities, weaving each participant’s stories into systems that seed long-term community resilience. On her farm in Busuanga, Palawan, she tends a thriving food forest, modeling a living ecosystem where well-being for people, plants, and future generations is interwoven. By weaving diverse voices into community-led innovations and prototyping adaptable systems that grow stronger over time, Weng manifests a solidarity-based, antifragile path to sustainable development.