Josefa Jara Martinez (January 21, 1894 – April 24, 1987) was a Filipino social worker, suffragist and civic leader.
[4] She later became the director of the non-governmental agency, the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) in Nueva Ecija.
She was a Protestant belonging to the United Church,[6] and became the executive secretary of the Young Woman's Christian Association of the Philippines.
[12] Their daughter Amelita “Ming” Jara Martinez married Fidel V. Ramos, who was then an army officer, on October 21, 1954.
In 2006, the biography Mommy: The Life and Times of Josefa Jara Martinez: the Pillar of Social Work in the Philippines by Melandrew Velasco was published, with the book was launched at an event at the Orchidarium in Burnham Park, Baguio, Benguet.