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/
Suzanna Stone
Suzanna Stone is an herbalist residing in Scottsville, Virginia. She is a graduate of Sacred Plant Tradition’s three year community herbalist program where she is on staff and serves as a guest lecturer. She founded Owlcraft Healing Ways where she offers clinical consultations, nine month outdoor apprenticeships and day classes in plant medicine, traditional foodways, and drumming. Her passion for the drum led her to Senegal where she studied traditional West African drumming and dancing. Suzanna was raised in a home where herbal medicine was used and whole foods were eaten. For over a decade Suzanna has focused on learning from the plants themselves.
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.
Rabiah Al Nur
Through Spring of Light Rabiah has worked for the last 10 years to educate the public about the need to work together to find solutions that will benefit the world community at large and at the same time tailor it to their respective locals. She has attended UN Conference on Women and Indigenous Peoples for several years. She works with a large network of women and men to grow ideas of sustainable resources through the exchange of culture and tradition. She have been successful in developing partnerships in Guatemala, New Zealand (Maori), Senegal, Burkina Faso, as well as Native American Communities and others in the US. Rabiah is an active member of A Prayer Vigil for Earth (17 years), networks of indigenouse peoples (30 years), MPWG – Plant Conservation Organization and Spring of Light (10 years). She is also a volunteer in Fairfax public schools introducing students to Native Cultures and Traditions of the North and South.
Ashley Sky Litecky
M.S., ERYT Registered Yoga Teacher, ERYT®200, M.S. Clinical Herbal Medicine
Ashley Sky Litecky of Sky House Yoga as well as the founder of Deep Green Wellness, blends her background as a yoga teacher/educator, healer, life coach, and herbalist into all that she does. Deep Green Wellness is a living entity that serves as a cornerstone to ground her vision to unite the fields of mindful living, herbal medicine and yoga. Through retreats and collaborative work with like-minded individuals and organizations, Deep Green Wellness is able to share it's work with local communities in the DC metro area and internationally. Ashley began her study of plant medicine through her undergraduate education in Environmental Science at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. She is a graduate of the Masters of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine program at Tai Sophia Institute. Ashley blends her knowledge of the traditional herbal medicine systems of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine with modern pharmacology. In her clinical practice, Ashley works in partnership with her clients uncover the 'root' cause of symptoms. She supports this work with customized individual herbal formulas and nutritional advice to "nudge" the body back to a state of balance. Through her work, Ashley hopes to inspire a deep sense of self-love and provides a warm and welcoming environment for clients to explore health, nutrition, movement, and ultimately, happiness. Ashley is a guest faculty member at George Washington University in D.C. and has led classes and presentations at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and HerbDay in Washington, D.C.
Ashley Sky Litecky of Sky House Yoga as well as the founder of Deep Green Wellness, blends her background as a yoga teacher/educator, healer, life coach, and herbalist into all that she does. Deep Green Wellness is a living entity that serves as a cornerstone to ground her vision to unite the fields of mindful living, herbal medicine and yoga. Through retreats and collaborative work with like-minded individuals and organizations, Deep Green Wellness is able to share it's work with local communities in the DC metro area and internationally. Ashley began her study of plant medicine through her undergraduate education in Environmental Science at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. She is a graduate of the Masters of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine program at Tai Sophia Institute. Ashley blends her knowledge of the traditional herbal medicine systems of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine with modern pharmacology. In her clinical practice, Ashley works in partnership with her clients uncover the 'root' cause of symptoms. She supports this work with customized individual herbal formulas and nutritional advice to "nudge" the body back to a state of balance. Through her work, Ashley hopes to inspire a deep sense of self-love and provides a warm and welcoming environment for clients to explore health, nutrition, movement, and ultimately, happiness. Ashley is a guest faculty member at George Washington University in D.C. and has led classes and presentations at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and HerbDay in Washington, D.C.
Tambra Raye
Culinary Nutritionist, Speaker, & Creator
She is an Oklahoma native living in Washington, DC with a creative soul who enjoys cooking healing meals, gardening, practicing yoga, and creating art and writings. Passionate about health, she is a dynamic public speaker, nutrition educator, and an intuitive healer.
Bursting with creativity, she is an idea generator, big picture thinker and able to make cross-connections and collaborations to get to the vision to action. Rich with experience in developing curriculum, media campaigns, health education materials, research, policy and grassroots advocacy, she adds value to any project.
Tambra has a BS in Human Nutrition/Premedical Sciences and a Spanish Minor from Oklahoma State University and a MS in Health Communication from Tufts Univ Medical School. She has completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics and is working towards her Registered Dietitian credentials (hopefully completed by 2013). Currently she is a nutrition educator for UDC Center for Nutrition Diet and Health developing community- and faith-based nutrition programs and performing cooking demos at various venues e.g. Food Day, ONE DC, NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo, Rooting DC, New Samaritan Baptist Church, Ward 8 Farmers Market and Thomson Elementary School to name a few. She completed the Food as Medicine professional training program through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in 2011. She is the founding chair of the Food and Environment Committee of the Metro Washington Public Health Association and serve on the Board of Directors for the DC Metro Area Dietetic Association. Tambra completed yoga and brain education instruction through Dahn Yoga. She is a certified personal trainer through the American Aerobic Association International/International Sports Medicine Association. She has CPR/AED Life Savers certification through the American Heart Association in 2010 and a valid DC food handler's license. Tambra's interests lies in food consciousness, chakra foods, cooking with herbs, and healing power of global South foods (Americas, Asia and Africa). She is a native of Oklahoma where she was required to study agriculture in school so I am one-time card carrying member of Future Farmers of America. Tambra's Oklahoma roots has been her foundation in blending shamanism, African healing wisdom, and Eastern philosophy to nutrition and health. She is a lifelong learner and a follower of Caroline Myss, Dr. Deanna Minich, Queen Afua, Dr. Anne Marie Colbin, and Dr. David Hawkins.
She is an Oklahoma native living in Washington, DC with a creative soul who enjoys cooking healing meals, gardening, practicing yoga, and creating art and writings. Passionate about health, she is a dynamic public speaker, nutrition educator, and an intuitive healer.
Bursting with creativity, she is an idea generator, big picture thinker and able to make cross-connections and collaborations to get to the vision to action. Rich with experience in developing curriculum, media campaigns, health education materials, research, policy and grassroots advocacy, she adds value to any project.
Tambra has a BS in Human Nutrition/Premedical Sciences and a Spanish Minor from Oklahoma State University and a MS in Health Communication from Tufts Univ Medical School. She has completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics and is working towards her Registered Dietitian credentials (hopefully completed by 2013). Currently she is a nutrition educator for UDC Center for Nutrition Diet and Health developing community- and faith-based nutrition programs and performing cooking demos at various venues e.g. Food Day, ONE DC, NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo, Rooting DC, New Samaritan Baptist Church, Ward 8 Farmers Market and Thomson Elementary School to name a few. She completed the Food as Medicine professional training program through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in 2011. She is the founding chair of the Food and Environment Committee of the Metro Washington Public Health Association and serve on the Board of Directors for the DC Metro Area Dietetic Association. Tambra completed yoga and brain education instruction through Dahn Yoga. She is a certified personal trainer through the American Aerobic Association International/International Sports Medicine Association. She has CPR/AED Life Savers certification through the American Heart Association in 2010 and a valid DC food handler's license. Tambra's interests lies in food consciousness, chakra foods, cooking with herbs, and healing power of global South foods (Americas, Asia and Africa). She is a native of Oklahoma where she was required to study agriculture in school so I am one-time card carrying member of Future Farmers of America. Tambra's Oklahoma roots has been her foundation in blending shamanism, African healing wisdom, and Eastern philosophy to nutrition and health. She is a lifelong learner and a follower of Caroline Myss, Dr. Deanna Minich, Queen Afua, Dr. Anne Marie Colbin, and Dr. David Hawkins.
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, Ohio and Vermont for 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. 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. Molly currently works doing community outreach and coordinating farmer training, as well as various food justice programs at the Accokeek Foundation located outside Washington DC.
Matt Cohen
I have been working with plants since 1995, when I left a corporate computer programming job to find a vocation that fit better with my spirit and body. My first venture was apprenticing in an organic market garden, and I've never looked back. In 1998 I came to DC to help local non-profits facilitate youth and community gardening projects. I started Matt's Habitats in 2003, specializing in organic gardening practices with an emphasis on native plants, wildlife habitats, and edible gardens. I love being in nature and am continually increasing my knowledge of the plants and animals in this area through classes, personal study, and teaching others. My wife, Elizabeth, and I have transformed our entire 1/4 acre yard into gardens featuring a vegetable and small fruit garden, a woodland garden, a pond, a raingarden, and a meadow garden. We are graced by fresh food and interesting wildlife every day. My vision is that someday there will be an entire network of food-producing and wildlife-sustaining yards in our area.
