In this Philippine name:for married women, the birth middle name or maternal family name is Yu, the birth surname or paternal family name is Untalan, and the marital name is Vital.

Catherine "Cathy" Yu Untalan-Vital is a Filipino environmentalist, fashion model, psychologist, and beauty queen. She competed and won the beauty *le 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. She is a TV anchor at People's Television Network in the Philippines.

Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Beauty pageant
• 3 See also
• 4 External links
• 5 References

Background

Catherine Untalan finished her high school education at St. Paul College of Parañaque. She graduated * 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 *ociation (NCAA). Two years later, she became the courtside reporter for her alma mater's team, the UP Fighting Maroons during the University Athletic *ociation of the Philippines' 67th season.

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 amb*ador recognition, the first to be given such distinction by the agency. She hosted a show in NBN Channel 4 en*led 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

She was crowned Miss Philippines Earth 2006. She represented Philippines at Miss Earth 2006 and she won Miss Water (2nd Runner-up).

See also

• Athena Imperial
• Diane Querrer
• Emma Tiglao
• Ganiel Krishnan
• Tina Marasigan

External links

• Official Miss Earth website
• Miss Earth Foundation website

References