Jamie Okuma is a Native American artist practicing in multidisciplinary fields of art with an emphasis of beadwork. Okuma is an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseño (Mission) Indians, and she is tribally Luiseño, Shoshone-Bannock, and Wailaki from her mother's side and Okinawan from her father's side. Her culturally embedded art practice began as a child while attending the Fort Hall Festival on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho, where she entered her first art show at the age of six. After high school, she took an art class at Palomar Community College and later attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Since then, her work has been published and exhibited around the world. She has won multiple awards from The Southwestern Association of Indian Arts and The Heard Museum Art Market and in 2019 was the recipient of the Knudsen Prize. Okuma currently works and resides on the La Jolla Indian Reservation with her husband and two young sons.