Jamie Okuma (born 1977) is a Native American visual artist and fashion designer from California.
[3] She is also an enrolled member of the La Jolla band of Indians in Southern California where she is currently living and working.
When Okuma was five, her family moved to the La Jolla Indian Reservation in Pauma Valley, California.
[5] After high school, she completed several graphic design classes at Palomar College in San Marcos, California, and went on to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"I had been doing dolls, intensive bead work [sic], and shows for 15 years and had reached my limit in those fields.