Traditional Healers and Researchers

Summer Austin - Ethnobotanist and co-director

Guy Ragosta, M.S. - Watershed Manager, Technical writer and co-director

Uala Lenta - Apprentice of la’au lapa’au (hawaiian herbal medicine) and lomilomi (body work)

Oppong Akwaato Ankrah - Traditional Asante Healer

Kelly Austin - Satellite communications specialist

Sheila Evans - Staff writer and AIDS education expert

Ivelyn Harris - Traditional Jamaican Maroon Healer

Lloyd Harris - Traditional Jamaican Maroon Healer

Lee Henry - Traditional Jamaican Maroon Healer

Richard Irving - Rastafarian Roots Man

Ricardo Pollock - Herbalist

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