Si Josefa Llanes Escoda (Setyembre 20, 1898 – Enero 6, 1945) ay isang kilalang Pilipinang tagapagtaguyod ng mga karapatang pangkababaihan sa Pilipinas. Siya ang tagapagtatag ng Mga Batang Babaeng Tagapagmanman ng Pilipinas.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Josefa Llanes Escoda (September 20, 1898 – January 6, 1945) was a prominent civic leader, social worker and Filipina war heroine.
A determined student, she won a scholarship to the United States, where she studied social work, earning a masters degree from Columbia University.
She founded the Boy’s Town in Manila for underprivileged youth in 1937 and the Girl Scouts of the Philippines in 1940.
Together with José Abad Santos and Vicente Lim, she is memorialized on the 1,000-peso banknote depicting Filipinos who fought and died resisting the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the Second World War.
Escoda is buried in an unmarked grave in La Loma Cemetery in Manila.
On September 20, 2018, a Google Doodle was created to commemorate her 120th birthday.
