Mimi Hernandez
Mimi Hernandez, MS, RH(AHG) is an herbal and holistic health educator whose courses balance traditional reverence with scientific understanding and intuitive awareness. She is the Outreach Coordinator of the Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies at Frostburg State University. A member of the governing council of the American Herbalists Guild, Mimi received her Master of Science in Herbal Medicine from the Tai Sophia Institute. With roots in Asheville, NC, Mimi is a founder of the One World Healing Arts Institute. She also draws upon her rich ethnic background & the Granny healers in her life. Mimi believes that the handing down of plant wisdom is essential. She enjoys nature time, especially waterfalls, creeks, and oceans. Mimi's a mom of two cool and unique kids, Anais and Evan. http://www.mimihernandez.com/
Ayo Ngozi
As a clinical herbalist, Ayo provides health counseling, wellness education, and herbal support in the form of consultations and custom-formulated herbal remedies. A longtime student of nature and natural healing, she completed my Master of Science in Herbal Medicine at Tai Sophia Institute (http://www.tai.edu).Ayo earned previous degrees at Cornell University (M.P.S.) and Hampton University (B. A.). She maintains a clinical practice and organic gardens in Mount Rainier, MD.
Suzanna Stone
Suzanna Stone is an herbalist in Scottsville VA. She founded Owlcraft
Healing Ways where she offers clinical herbal consultations and
teaches nine-month herbal apprenticeships and day classes in herbal
medicine, traditional foodways, and plant spirit medicine. She was
raised in a home where herbs and whole foods were the foundations of
health and has spent the last 15 years broadening that foundation and
deepening her knowledge and understanding of the healing herbs. She
is a graduate of Sacred Plant Traditions' clinical training program
and now serves as a guest lecturer there and at other herbal schools
and conferences throughout the East Coast. Suzanna is also a
co-facilitator of rites of passage for young girls with the Living
Earth School in Afton, VA. She lives on five acres of plant filled
land with her artist/writer partner, their three homeschooled children
and various chickens, goats, cats and the canine herbalist Artemis.
Healing Ways where she offers clinical herbal consultations and
teaches nine-month herbal apprenticeships and day classes in herbal
medicine, traditional foodways, and plant spirit medicine. She was
raised in a home where herbs and whole foods were the foundations of
health and has spent the last 15 years broadening that foundation and
deepening her knowledge and understanding of the healing herbs. She
is a graduate of Sacred Plant Traditions' clinical training program
and now serves as a guest lecturer there and at other herbal schools
and conferences throughout the East Coast. Suzanna is also a
co-facilitator of rites of passage for young girls with the Living
Earth School in Afton, VA. She lives on five acres of plant filled
land with her artist/writer partner, their three homeschooled children
and various chickens, goats, cats and the canine herbalist Artemis.
Holly Poole-Kavana
Holly Poole-Kavana is a botanist and herbalist practicing in Washington, DC. She is a lifelong plant enthusiast and has a bachelor's degree in botany. In 2005 she shifted her focus to herbal medicine and studied with a series of experienced herbalists in the classroom, clinic, and outdoors. In 2010 she started Little Red Bird
Botanicals, a small business that provides an herbal CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) project individual herbal consultations, and locally-grown herbal products. She is from Upstate New York and has lived
in DC since 2001; in addition to working with herbs she is employed as a health educator, birth assistant, and occasional labor doula.
Botanicals, a small business that provides an herbal CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) project individual herbal consultations, and locally-grown herbal products. She is from Upstate New York and has lived
in DC since 2001; in addition to working with herbs she is employed as a health educator, birth assistant, and occasional labor doula.
Molly Meehan
Molly Meehan is the founder and director of Centro Ashé and is rooted in maintaining a space for the community to build relationships and share communal knowledge. Molly grew up in Maryland and is excited to return after living in Southern California & Costa Rica about a decade. She has spent much of the last several years working in sustainable agriculure in Talamanca, Costa Rica and working for such organizations as Punta Mona Center for Sustainable Living and Education, Foro Emaus an organization doing advocacy on the workers rights as well as environmental issues on the banana plantations in Costa Rica, and ANDAR a small women's cooperative organic medicinal plant farm located in Guapiles, Costa Rica. She also coordinated internship , group tour programs, as well as medicinal plant programs for Punta Mona for several years. Molly studied at the Self Heal School for Herbal Medicine with John Finch in Ocean Beach, California and later went on to attend herbal medicine education with instructors such as Sage Maurer in Vermont, Phyllis D Light, Zahra Ray Allen, and more. Molly received her Masters Degree in Sustainable Development from the School for International Training in Vermont, and her thesis work focused on Food Sovereignty in Talamanca, Costa Rica. She was the Community Outreach and Education Coodinator at the Accokeek Foundation facilitating education opportunities for new and beginning organic farmers, as well as public education on sustainability, homesteading, and more! Molly currently studies with Kathleen Meier and the amazing faculty at Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville, VA. She has a strong dedication to social, ecological and economic justice and is passionate about sustainable food systems and relocalizing our medicine.