JAMIE PESQUIZA CARDENAS

Consultation, Independent Contractor and Cultural Educator Roles

• Provided cultural education and somatic tools for youth and adult allies for Filipinix Mental Health and Wellness. (Buong Loob Filipinix - Serving the Bay Area)
• Educated community members on Ilokano Traditional Crafts such as Inabel (Ilokano Weaving) as a means to support community mental health and well-being. (Ginhawa Marketplace)
• Advised the California Art Council on applications for their Impact Grant which provides funding to collaborative projects supporting historically marginalized communities.
• Led a coordinated effort to expose the cultural misrepresentation of Asian Americans in the Sacramento Art Community including making a public statement at City Hall and in the local news media.
• Collaborated with other community organizers to create Sac AAPI for Palestine, an artist and cultural worker led event to raise funds for the Palestinians experiencing genocide.
• Provided consultation to Civic Thread and Black Artist Foundry on California's Jobs First Program which aimed to provide equity and inclusion to communities who have been systematically denied access to resources, power and opportunity.
• Served on multiple panels to share my expertise on plant medicine, community wellness, cultural and traditional art and craft.
• Collaborating with other diasporic Sacramento Cultural Artist and Practitioners to take a stand for solidarity by creating a significant Fiber Arts Mural in South Sacramento to represent its rich cultural diversity.
• Provided Cultural Art and wellness offering for The California Endowment.

• Founder of apothecary, natural dye studio.
• Formulation of natural skin care, self care and cultural focused traditional medicine
• Provide education for community with a focus on ancestral plants and somatic healing
• Ecoprinting and Natural Plant and Fungi Dye
• Provide education of Natural Dye and Plant Medicine as a form of healing and connection to cultural identity.
• Founding artist and cultural worker of community based art projects
• Research plant and fungi medicines to translate to community in laypeople's terms.

• Freelance photographer in various cities across the United States/ Turtle Island
• Specializing in portraiture and instant film and medium format photography

• Apprentice to San Francisco Manang, Rachel Lozada
• Assisted with community based public art workshops
• Learning traditional Filipino weaving knowledge shared by oral tradition
• Documented the cultural practice of weaving and the culture of diasporic weaving circles

• Collaborated with community organizations in other regions to support state-wide and national outreach initiatives.
• Liaised with political organizations and initiatives to confirm consideration of community best interests within campaigns and political agendas.
• Worked directly for environmental conservation initiatives.
• Contacted organization members for over the phone fundraising.
• Responsibile for successful initiaves for Environment California such as Nurdles for Turtles - a campaign agaisnt plastic and the effects of the biological damage to the environment.