Cathy Untalan

Catherine "Cathy" Yu Untalan is an environmentalist, fashion model, psychologist, and beauty queen from the Philippines. She competed and won the beauty title of Miss Philippines-Earth 2006 and the international Miss Earth Water 2006. She is the Executive Director of Miss Earth Foundation, the environmental-social-humanitarian outreach arm of Miss Earth beauty pageant.

Background

Untalan graduated cum laude in Psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman and received her diploma in Environment and Natural Resource Management from the University of the Philippines Open University and is currently pursuing her masters in Coastal Track on the same university.

On August 18, 2006, she cohosted the awards night of Moonrise Film Festival, an annual film festival covering various environmental and cultural issues, sponsored by the Center for Environmental Awareness and Education, which was held at the Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City.

She was a courtside reporter for the San Beda Red Lions during the first half of the 82nd season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Two years later, she became the courtside reporter for her alma mater's team, the UP Fighting Maroons during the University Athletic Association of the Philippines' 67th season.

On March 12, 2009, she launched a book which she co-authored entitled, "Bakawan", a pro-environment book which aims to teach children on taking care of the environment, particularly the importance of bakawan or mangroves.

She is the spokesperson of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources for various campaigns and of the Philippine Department of Health for their anti-tobacco smoking campaign. The Sustainable Energy Development Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) also chose her to be the spokesperson of their biofuels campaigns. The USAID cited her efforts and participation in their programs and she was awarded an environmental ambassador recognition, the first to be given such distinction by the agency. She hosted a show in NBN Channel 4 entitled Kapihan ng Bayan with veteran broadcast journalists, Mario Garcia and Ely Saludar. Currently, she's a columnist in the first green lifestyle magazine in the Philippines, called, Gen G Magazine.

Beauty pageant

Standing at 6 ft, she won the 2006 Miss Philippines-Earth title. She represented Philippines at Miss Earth 2006 and she won Miss Earth Water (2nd runner up). She shares the same title to Athena Imperial who won the title in 2011 and is currently the fifth highest placing delegate from The Philippines at Miss Earth, fifth to Karla Henry who won the title Miss Earth 2008, Sandra Seifert who won the title of Miss Earth Air in 2009, Stephany Stefanowitz who won also the Miss Earth-Air title in 2012 and Jamie Herrell who won the title Miss Earth 2014.