She belongs to the Alcalá clan, one of the political clans prior to the Marcos era. Her maternal grandfather is Ramon Usman Alcalá, and her relatives include Tomas Alcalá (one of Albay's early governors) and Philippines' most successful Cartoonist Larry Alcalá.
Her father is a Civil Engineer and her mother is an Education Teacher.
Is American and of Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Filipino, Latin, and South Pacific Island heritage.
She have traveled to Cambodia in the 1990s under a United Nations visa.
Her birth name is forever inscribed in The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. American Immigrant "Wall of Honor" on Ellis Island in New York.