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Jana Lynne “JL” Caldetera Umipig, named Lawag Nakem and Dayang Sidlan Laya by her teachers and elders is mother of Kalilaya Amorosa Umipig-Candelario, life partner of Enmanuel Candelario and daughter of Rosemarie Caldetera and Godofredo Peralta Umipig, is of Ilokano descent, born and raised in the Kalihi Valley of Honolulu in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and in current relation to Lenapehoking. She is a cultural organizer and knowledge bearer through her multidisciplinary artistic creation work, role as a liberation educator, and as an intuitive and Ilokano ancestral healer.
JL also works as a Death Doula, supporting communities/families to create rituals to honor ongoing relationships with those who have transitioned Spirit Side, centering work on supporting children’s relationships to loss and death as well as supporting families who have lost their children.
In service of the Pilipin@/x community where she is rooted in ancestry, she has worked for a decade as a Core member of the Center for Babaylan Studies, is host of the podcast Kultivating Kapwa, founder of CfBS Decolonization School. Some of JL's most-known creations are the US/Internationally-traveled Journey of a Brown Girl, Raised Pinay and the Diasporic Pilipinx education and divination tool of Kapwa Tarot.