[5] He served as the 4th congressional nominee of the ACT Teachers Partylist during the 2016 elections, where the party secured two seats in the Philippine Congress.
He was also a finalist in a 2009 climate change-themed essay writing contest organized by the World Bank[6][7] As a researcher, he is a staunch critic of the Philippine government's Labor Export Policy and K to 12 scheme.
[8][9] He wrote a popular essay on "Noynoying" (Filipino-coined term which means "government inaction" on social ills)[10] which was translated in French.
[11] In 2012, he presented a paper on "wang-wang" (literally: "siren" or "alarm", figuratively "call to action" for citizens and government) which was declared the Philippines' "Salita ng Taon" (Word of the Year) in a conference organized by the Filipinas Institute of Translation.
[12] In 2014, he co-presented a paper on "endo" (end of contract; Filipino colloquial term for labor contractualization/flexibilization) with John Kelvin R. Briones, which was declared as the Philippines' 2nd Word of the Year then.