Leny Strobel, Kapampangan, is one of the founding directors of the Center for Babaylan Studies (www.babaylan.net) and Professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She has published and edited books on the process of decolonization and indigenization for Filipinos in the diaspora.
The Center for Babaylan Studies creates spaces and events for the dissemination of Filipino Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices. She will be co-presenting with CFBS members Lizae Reyes, Subanen, Ritualist and Sound Healer, and Lisa Suguitan Melnick, a Sound Healer and Qi Gong teacher.