Maria Ressa is a fearless journalist and, in recent years, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

But there's so much more to Maria than these facets of her identity.

In this video, we enumerate 11 facts about Maria – some details only Rapplers know; others, she wrote about in her book 'How To Stand Up To A Dictator.'

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