JJ Typography (JJ Tintiangco) is a Pinay digital artist from San Diego who specializes in illustration & typography. Third generation Filipina American, she is the granddaughter of four Filipino immigrants. With a B.A. in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University, JJ Typography has professional experience in both the education and healthcare fields. Over the years she has worked through some trials and tribulations but with the help and support of her community, specifically her mentor Glenda Macatangay, led her to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a professional artist. Thus, she became JJ Typography. It is through JJ’s love of serving her community that she began to see her artwork as necessary, an integral part of her life and professional work. JJ began using her artwork as a tool to heal, story tell & teach others the important skill of being self-loving. Which led her to co-found The Art of Becoming, alongside her mentor and co-founder Glenda.

Glenda Macatangay M.S.W is the daughter and granddaughter of immigrant parents with deep roots in Batangas, Philippines. She is privileged to continue their work, breathing, dreaming, and creating on Miwok and Ohlone Land and in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kauai. She is a social justice and community responsive wellness entrepreneur, researcher, integrative wellness clinician, healing practitioner, artist, author, activist and mother to 4 intuitive children. With individual and community empowered movements always at the forefront of her work, Glenda saw a common denominator of urgent need for customizable wellbeing practices that can be engaged daily and evolve over time. Glenda Macatangay M.S.W is the daughter and granddaughter of immigrant parents with deep roots in Batangas, Philippines. She is privileged to continue their work, breathing, dreaming, and creating on Miwok and Ohlone Land and in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kauai. She is a social justice and community responsive wellness entrepreneur, researcher, integrative wellness clinician, healing practitioner, artist, author, activist and mother to 4 intuitive children. With individual and community cont empowered movements always at the forefront of her work, Glenda saw a common denominator of urgent need for customizable well being practices that can be engaged daily and evolve over time.

Drawing upon her extensive professional history as a community-based psychotherapist and social worker, a trauma-informed and healing centered consultant in education, her deep ancestral wisdom, and reverence to indigenous ethics, philosophies and practice, Glenda created My Healing Language, a well-being practice rooted in indigenous and relationally attuned daily rituals intended to bring into balance the mind, body, emotion and Spirit.

Through these foundational tools, Glenda aims to encourage any person to own the means of their own joy and fulfillment, grow closer to their intuition and enter into deeper reciprocity with the world. Through sharing this work with others, she sees a unifying approach of inviting in many paths to healing within, healing our relationships and communities at large.

Shannon Deloso M.Ed [she/her] is a Pinay educator and student affairs professional. She was born and raised in Sacramento, with ancestral roots from Bohol and Bicol, Philippines. Shannon is a product of Ethnic Studies and was the first person in her family to attend college; this influenced her leadership and outlook on serving our communities. Shannon graduated from San Francisco State with her BA in Asian American Studies with a double minor in Education and Race & Resistance Studies. Shannon has taught middle and high school from the Bay to LA, and continues to have a strong commitment to advancing ethnic studies and providing student support within our school systems. She has mentored, co-created courses and programs for ethnic studies to be accessible in secondary education. Shannon holds a Masters in Education and a Social Studies credential from University of California, Los Angeles and is also a published author for the anthology Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Shannon was first introduced to the Art of Becoming workbook as being a participant in our first focus groups, which then transformed into becoming a business partner in the Art of Becoming LLC. Overall, Shannon has been instrumental in the process of editing this workbook into its current iteration and the curriculum development in the upcoming workshop series.