MANILA - The UP College of Mass Communication Alumni Association has announced that seven outstanding alumni will receive the 2021 Glory Awards in a virtual ceremony on Nov. 27. In a news release on Monday, it said the awardees who were selected by a distinguished jury of peers are: Maria Luz Balmaceda (corporate communications), Atty. Maria Kristina Conti (social advocacy), Abner Mercado (broadcast journalism), Catherine Garcia-Molina (film), Felix "Nonon" Padilla (performing arts), Rowena Carranza-Paraan (social advocacy), and Dr. Marianne Dayrit Sison (mass communication education). Balmaceda led the brand and corporate communications unit of SGV & Co., the country's premier auditing and professional services firm, for 25 years while Conti is a human rights advocate who has defended jailed journalists, student activists, political prisoners, urban poor evictees, and quarantine "violators" during the pandemic. Mercado, on the other hand, is renowned for do