Jaiya John

Dr. Jaiya John (Mshkiki Odeh Inini, Medicine Heart Man) was orphan-born on ancient Indigenous Anasazi and Pueblo lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized ancestral Baba, freedom worker, medicine poet, and filmmaker. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression and stir the soul to remember itself. He is the author of numerous books, including Daughter Drink This Water and Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University and holds doctorate and master’s degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Everest.