Shawntel is from the Philippines and is the Co-Founder and President of Sustainable PH Inc., and of the One Cainta Food Program, a co-founder of SustainaRumble! and of the Society of Sustainability Practitioners. She is an Assistant Manager under Deloitte's Climate and Sustainability team. Through the organisations Shawntel co-founded, she has provided food, water, disaster relief, supplementary education, and livelihood opportunities to over 700,000 people across 20 cities and 11 hospitals in the Philippines.

She obtained her Bachelors in Management of Applied Chemistry as the program awardee in 2017 and her Masters in Sustainability Management in 2019. She has worked as a researcher focused on social entrepreneurship and sustainability, as a corporate analyst under JP Morgan & Chase Inc., as a TV host under IBC 13, and as the Philippine country manager of CSRWorks International.

Shawntel is a Weidenfeld Hoffman Scholar.