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= Rachel "Baby" Arenas = Maria Rachel "Baby" Arenas is the incumbent Chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) (January 2017 – Present) and former member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. She was the first woman Representative of Pangasinan, followed subsequently by her mother, the noted Manila socialite and philanthropist Rose Marie J. Arenas. Her Chairmanship of the Board was confirmed by the Commission on Appointments on 20 January 2017. She also currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors for Red Cross Philippines.

Early Life
Arenas was born Maria Rachel Jimenez Arenas on November 15, 1971 in Malasiqui, Pangasinan to parents Rose Marie Arenas and Ramon Arenas, a businessman engaged in the shipping industry. Her maternal grandparents were Alfredo Jimenez, an accountant at the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and a member of a modestly rich family from Makati; and Remedios Bosch, an opera singer and a music professor at the University of the East (UE). While her grandmother on her father's side was Doña Julieta Hofileña Lopez, sister to industrialist Don Eugenio Hofileña Lopez (ex-owner of Meralco, Negros Navigation, ABS-CBN) and former Vice President Fernando Lopez (owner of the University of Iloilo).

Prior to her election to Congress, she worked in the administration of two Presidents from 1992-1998 under President Fidel V. Ramos and from 1998 to 2001, with President Joseph Estrada (1998-2001). She also worked in the Media Affairs Bureau of the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Foreign Affairs, held concurrently by then, Teofisto Guingona, from 2001 to 2003. She also held various positions in other agencies, as Special Assistant to the General Manager of the National Development Company and the Business Development Manager of the National Maritime Equity Corporation.

Education
Arenas finished elementary and secondary education at the Colegio de San Agustin in Makati City. She graduated with a degree in AB Political Science earning an Academic Excellence Award for Outstanding Thesis, from the De La Salle University. She took up further studies at the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University in 2003 and at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston, USA, in 2004.

Political Career
Arenas ran a successful campaign as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. She was set to run unopposed in the 2013 elections but gave way to her mother now-Deputy Speaker Rose Marie Arenas. She was the first woman to be elected as Representative of the Third Congressional District of Pangasinan. While in office, she developed numerous infrastructure projects in the Third District, in particular the building of farm-to-market roads, bridges, school buildings and civic centers.

During her tenure, agriculture capacity increased after the installation of irrigation systems in 6,000 hectares of farmland. She was responsible for concretising and asphalting more than 30,000 kilometers of roads; and the construction of five main bridges that connected different barangays and towns to each other: the San Vicente-Pogo Bridge in the Municipality of Calasiao, Ican-Bugtong Bridge  and Pamaranum Bridge in the Municipality of Malasiqui and San Vicente and Calvo Bridges in the Municipality of Bayambang. She also prioritized the rehabilitation of river banks, construction of proper drainage systems, and clearing waterways to alleviate the District's long-time flooding problem.

She was made the chairperson of the House Special Committee on Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) and authored House Bill No. 4363, calling for the creation of the Southern Palawan Special Economic Zone and Freeport Authority to boost economic growth in the East Asean Region.

Arenas also authored and sponsored national bills that called for social justice, empowerment of the marginalized, and the improvement of basic services, such as health, education and livelihood. In line with combating corruption in President Benigno Aquino’s “Daang Matuwid” she authored HB2471 seeking the protection, security and benefits of whistleblowers. In the 15th Congress, she championed the establishment of an Information and Communications Technology Hub in every province (HB4066), and the creation of a Department of Overseas Workers (HB 4408). She also authored the Service to Pay Act, the house resolution calling for the punishment of grain hoarders, the house bill calling for the creation of a Magna Carta of Agricultural Development Workers, and an act calling for the freezing of prices of basic commodities during calamities.

She was also honored as the Most Outstanding Congresswoman of 2007, during her first term in the House of Representatives and was known to be a fearless advocate of many causes affecting the less fortunate members of society.

Arenas was nominated as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women (TOYM) of 2011.

In 2013, she launched a landmark project, the Education Leadership Training in partnership with the prestigious Foothill College of Silicon Valley which provided training and skills-building workshops in information and communication technology that would benefit more than 3,000 public school teachers, for which she was accorded by Foothill College, the honor of naming after her the said international program, R.A.C.E. or Rachel Arenas Collaborative for Excellence.

Chairman of the MTRCB
Arenas is the 15th and seventh woman chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) which is composed of 30 board members and a vice chairperson and is mandated to regulate and classify motion pictures, television programs, and publicity materials among others.