The teachers, schooling, and ideas behind the work.
A lot of my path has been self-led, and none of it has been walked alone. This work comes from ancestors, from teachers and elders, from study, and from years of practice.
What guides the work.
Healing Justice
Wellness and justice are inseparable. Healing includes actively dismantling the racism, extraction, and exploitation embedded in wellness spaces.
Ancestral Connection
We support people in re-turning to and adapting the ancestral lineages, technologies, and spiritual inheritances that colonization severed.
Accessibility
Wellness is a birthright, not a privilege. We create multiple pathways, including sliding scale and barter, for systematically underserved communities and the people who support them.
Sovereignty
People heal themselves. Practitioners don't fix. We support, witness, and hold space. Personal power and self-determination guide the work.
Interconnection
Spirit, nature, body, ancestors, and community are all related. We reject fragmentation and embrace the wholeness that comes through relationship.
Sustainability
We build practices and systems aligned with natural cycles, prioritizing long-term capacity over extractive urgency.
Self-study, ancestors, and tradition.
I received my first tarot deck at ten and have studied for over twenty years. I have read professionally for four. Much of my path has been led by self-study.
I am an Aborisha and a student of several African traditional and diaspora traditions. I have practiced and taught Hoodoo for eight years.
This process has been led by my enslaved African and Black ancestors, who were trafficked, and later migrated, to North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Missouri.
- TarotStudying for over 20 years, professionally for 4
- HoodooPractitioner and teacher for 8 years
- African traditional and diaspora traditionsAborisha and student
Current mentors who have shaped my practice.
Baba OmiTosin and Queen Mother Omi Sade
Queen Mother Osunnike
Sa-Neith
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Study in herbalism, astrology, meditation, and anthropology.
The People's Medicine School
Core curriculum.
Rooted Apothecary Plant Camp at Home
Herbalism.
HPOC School of Herbalism
Grief Herbalist certificate.
Embodied Astrology
Your Chart Is A Body cohort and Jupiter in Gemini research member.
Spring Up meditation training
40 hours, February to December.
M.A. Applied Anthropology
Concentration in Medical Anthropology.
B.A. Anthropology and B.A. Health, Society & Populations
Two bachelor's degrees.
Research that informs the practice.
Anthropological methods shape how I listen to communities and design programs. They include ethnography, interviews, surveys, and community mapping.
- 2025HerStory: Black Maternal Health Week, surveys, interviews, and social resource mapping
- 2018 to 2020A collaborative analysis of Black food geographies, systemic barriers, and navigation strategies
- 2018 to 2019USAID ADVANCE midterm evaluation, school food entitlements and the National School Lunch Program