Aside from establishing PETA, she is also the founding president of the Philippine Center of the International Theatre Institute (PCITI).

At 18, she directed the award-winning TV series, Teenagers, which tackled problems of the youth.

[3] She served as executive director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

It won the Annual Awards for Outstanding Philippine Books given by the Manila Critics Circle.

Guidote-Alvarez has been the producer-host of the multiawarded Balintataw radio program on DZRH which aired six times a week at 11 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays and at 6 p.m. on Sundays.