Jane Lillian Vance is a celebrated American artist whose thangka painting of amehi healer Tsampa Ngawang in the west of Nepal resulted in the award winning 2010 documentary, A Gift for the Village. With her young children, Iris and Emerson, she traveled extensively through India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. She has crossed Nepal's Thorung-la in a snowstorm and climbed Tanzania's Kilimanjaro on her 60th birthday. Vance serves as Vice President of Help Save the Next Girl, a non-profit dedicated to preventing predatory violence, and with Gil Harrington co-authored Morgan Harrington: Murdered and Dead for Good; A Mother's Quest to Find a Serial Killer und Healing, published by Vajra Books in 2017. For 20 years, Vance has worked as an art therapist for children who have special needs, and has served for a decade in wound care with Orphan Medical Network International's medical mission teams in Zambia, Africa. She lives in the beautiful mountains of southwest Virginia.