Joanna Cariño
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Joanna Patricia Kintanar Cariño is a Filipina human rights activist, educator, researcher, and co-founder of the Cordillera People's Alliance (CPA), SELDA Northern Luzon (Association of Ex–Political Detainees against Detention and Arrest) and SANDUGO (Alliance and Movement of Bangsamoro and Indigenous Peoples and for Self-Determination).[1][2]
Cariño was born on May 2, 1951, in Baguio. A descendant of Ibaloi chieftain Mateo Cariño,[3] she is the second eldest of eight children of Josefina Kintanar Cariño and Atty. Jose Cortes Cariño Jr.[2]
Cariño attended Baguio Central School and Baguio City High School. In 1970, she left the University of the Philippines Baguio (UPB) and become an activist. Together with her younger sister Joji, she was illegally arrested, tortured, and detained in Camp Olivas from 1974 to 1976 during Martial Law under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.[1][4] Her elder sister Jingjing had been killed in an accident that same year after becoming a full-time activist in 1974.[5] In 1978, she resumed her schooling at UPB, where she graduated with a degree in Anthropology and Economics. She later took up graduate studies at the same university but subsequently left to further her career in activism.