Leny Mendoza Strobel is Kapampangan from the Philippines and is currently a settler on Pomo and Coast Miwok lands (Sonoma County, California).

Her work has focused on the process of decolonization and re-indigenization. Most recently, she facilitates a local place-based cohort with the vision of "repair and reparations" with local indigenous communities.

She is a Founding Elder at the Center for Babaylan Studies and is Professor Emeritus of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University.

She tends a garden and chickens with her partner, Cal.

Note: This website is the latest in several iterations of Leny Strobel’s online presence.

Previously, she maintained the blogs Kathang Pinay and Kathang Pinay 2, which are still hosted on Blogger.

In addition to this website, she currently posts short essays, poems, anecdotes and stories at her Medium.