Cultural advocate-enthusiast, and researcher focused on heritage and communal practices
Jamaal S. Omamalin holds a master's degree in anthropology from the University of San Carlos, Philippines. His research focuses on the culture, heritage, religious practices, and ethnic experiences of local cultural communities in the Philippines. He has worked with various cultural players in the identification of socio-cultural trends amid modernisation and popular culture and has engaged with traditional trade practitioners in the determining and translation of the socio-economic and cultural implications of the pandemic. He published the paper 'Tagay ta, Bai!: The Social Dynamics of Filipino Social Drinking', and co-authored the paper 'The Hermeneutics of the Gozos for Señor Santo Niño de Cebu'.