Jennaya Dunlap is a queer, neurodivergent painter, muralist and sculptor from the Los Angeles area. She is a writer and aspiring musician as well, and is currently learning the art of filmmaking. Her art reflects her life's work around social justice, often including themes of direct action, decolonization, and resistance to oppression. She often explores the theme of reconnection to ancestral roots and practices through the understanding that we carry that connection within us. In particular, Jennaya paints about reconnection to the strength of maternal ancestors and healing of generational trauma as women, and the connection to decolonization through deconstruction of a white identity. She uses bright colors that push back on the minimalist or monotone palettes of a capitalistic society.

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Jennaya grew up in isolation in an abusive home, causing her to seek out community and chosen family as a young teen and igniting a life-long passion for fighting injustice and working toward abolition and decolonization. She began drawing at two years old and writing fiction as a preteen. In her teen and early adult years her art was directed toward supporting her social justice work with undocumented immigrant communities in Southern California, work that she has been doing for nearly two decades now. She now creates murals and public art as well as her own practice, balancing art with full time work and caring for her two children and family.