Ana Rita Reyes shares her journey filled with struggles, triumphs, and hope.
As a Filipino immigrant in the US, Ana Rita Reyes proves that you can do anything you set your mind to, without limits.
She says "you have to believe in yourself. But don't just keep your faith in your heart. You have to act on it because if you don't nothing will happen to you."
Anarita Compio Reyes is the author of the autobiography book ¨Woman Of Hope¨, which tackles her life, struggles, and triumph from her home country, the Philippines and as an immigrant to the USA.
Anarita is a go-getter, goal-oriented, risk-taker. She is known for being magnanimous and for her generosity, as-well-as a mother to her two loving sons, Joseph, who is diagnosed with Autism, and Jericho. She is a wife to her husband, Randy. It is her topmost priority to make their family life focus on serving God and radiating goodness to the community.
She’s been in the academe since 2003 from being an educator, Preschool Program Manager, and Site Director for Story Road Preschool Campus in the Grail Family Services in San Jose, CA. She has been working with infants to school-age children, and most recently she was a Family Support Specialist and Center Director at Kidango. Anarita has a Child Development Program Permit from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
She graduated as a Magna Cum Laude and Si Se Puede Awardee from The National Hispanic University in 2012, and she was chosen for a graduation speech and took her Masters at Walden University.
She is involved in both civic and church services, especially during the pandemic. She has given free Catechism classes to children since 1988 and is a volunteer for infants and kids in the community.
Her life revolves around academic work, volunteerism, and philanthropic works, especially providing aid to the homeless in San Jose, sending support to her community in the Philippines, and sustaining the needs of her family in her home country.
