Jana Lynne Caldetera Umipig, mother of Kalilaya Amorosa Umipig-Candelario, life partner of Enmanuel Candelario and daughter of Rosemarie Caldetera Umipig (Pagudpud, Ilokos Norte) and Godofredo Peralta Umipig (Santa Maria, Ilokos Sur) was born and raised in Honolulu on the Kingdom of Hawaii and also raised on Yokuts Territory (Stockton, CA). Her current and closest relation to land is the Lenape Territory (Bronx, NY). She is a cultural organizer and knowledge bearer and does so through her multidisciplinary artistic expression/creation work, role as an educator and sharer of knowledge and as an intuitive and bodywork healer in uplifting the healer within all who come to exchange with her. She is also a practiced Filipino Martial Artist in the discipline of Kali, through the school of Pekiti Tersia.
JL also works as a Grief Worker Death Doula supporting communities and families in creating rituals to honoring on going relationships with those in their lives who have transitioned Spirit Side. She centers much of this work as in all other work on supporting children and youth’s relationships to loss and death as well as supporting families who have their lost children.
In service of the Pilipin@/x community where she is rooted in ancestry, she holds legacy with the Center for Babaylan Studies as a core member for 10 years, host of podcast Kultivating Kapwa and founder of CfBS Decolonization School and Co-founder and Artistic Director/Creator of Raised Pinay through Roots of Health where she centralizes her organizing around Decolonization and Liberation Education. Some of JL's most know creative works include JL is the US/Internationally travelled Journey of a Brown Girl and the Diasporic Pilipinx education and divination tool of Kapwa Tarot.
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