Josefa Llanes Escoda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josefa Llanes Escoda

Filipino Heroine, Filipino suffragist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1898

Place of Birth: Dingras, Luzon, Philippines

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1945

Profession: suffragette, suffragist

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Josefa "Pepa" M.
Llanes-Escoda (September 20, 1898 – January 6, 1945) was a prominent civic leader and a social worker.
She is well known as a Filipino advocate of women's suffrage and was founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. Together with José Abad Santos and Vicente Lim, she is memorialized on the Philippines' 1,000-Peso banknote depicting Filipinos who fought and died resisting the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the Second World War at FEU Manila Campus.