I’m a community herbalist, change agent, researcher, writer & occasional artist. My deepest passion and personal mission is encouraging freedom, wholeness and the experience of beauty through the practice of botanical medicine.
I believe botanical medicine has the capacity to revolutionize how we connect and relate to ourselves, each other and our habitat. This blog is a kaleidoscopic scrapbook of art, theoretical tangents and current curiosities. It’s written for the creative herbalist (and other health professionals/pracitioners) & the Earth-inspired designer and innovator.
...And she often has 'elderberry hands.'
I have under my belt a 2.5 year apprenticeship in bioregional herbal medicine with Joyce Netishen of Fire Rose Farm as well as years of operating as a Research Associate for the independent indigenous think tank The Center for World Indigenous Studies in the areas of tribal health and environmental policy design. Soon I can include in that belt a M.A. in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University Seattle, with a thesis on ethnobotanical knowledge and public health. I’m currently studying with Kiva Rose & Jesse Wolf Hardin at the Anima Center, and digging deep down into the roots and meaning of this work.
My professional and personal foci include environmental and medical anthropology & socioecological resilience. I love collaborating with individuals and organizations to make our communities healthier and more resilient. I work with the Olympia Free Herbal Clinic as a collective member and community educator.
I do consulting for individuals and firms in the areas of research assistance/ analysis and organizational strategy. I am available and always interested in consultation offers, collaborative research opportunities and projects. I’m especially interested in projects concerning community health & contributing innovative social structures, plant education programs and creative medicine/practice design.
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