Born and raised in upstate New York, Tanya found her way into the world of holistic health and indigenous healing in the midst of several years of New York City living, a hectic career in television journalism and a serious need for balance.
A few years post the World Trade Center attacks, she packed her bags, headed west and never looked back. She attended Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition & Culinary Arts, located in Berkeley, CA, in 2005 and 2007 where she earned her certifi…
I believe in empowering people to heal themselves by encouraging individuals to
take an active role in their healing process. Often, this includes evaluating changes that
may need to be made physically, mentally, and emotionally. I believe that an individual
working toward health and harmony is in turn healing a part of their community, and thus
providing a large-scale remedy to better our planet. The Earth is changing in radical
ways, and with that, our definition of medicine is also …
As a Latina growing up in East Oakland, Tina’s career mission has always been to serve her community. This led her to earn her undergraduate degree in Psychology and to her Masters work in Educational Psychology. After working in the field of Social Services for nearly twenty years, Tina decided to make a career shift and pursue a lifelong interest in the field of Herbal Medicine. This brought her to the Ohlone Herbal Center. For Tina, the practice of Herbal Medicine has brough…
The first time I came to California I was under the spell of the scent of the Eucalyptus along the coast. I hail from the brown deciduous woods of New York and the Evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest, and the sweet, stirring smell of Eucalyptus was something I had never experienced before. Although I love my trees from my various homes, the eucalyptus was something that was so intoxicating, so bewitching to my spirit, that I knew I would have to spend some time getting to know this area o…
An explorer and creator from an early age, Syslee was born into a family of artists; her
mother a basket weaver, her grand father a painter. This creative energy led Syslee to find
her own art through nature. Growing up in rural Southern Oregon she spent her childhood
at her mother’s side roaming the riversides and seashores collecting dogwood, willow,
and sea kelp used to make furniture and baskets. Early on Syslee felt at home in this
environment.
A passion for cooking and wild foods le…
Before beginning nursing school 10 years ago, Vanessa Remhof was a street medic and volunteer supporting survivors of sexual assault both on a hotline and in the Emergency Department. She graduated in 2005 with a bachelors of science in nursing. She first worked as an ER/trauma nurse in Chicago and then moved into public health 5 years ago. She now works with people who are homeless/marginally housed and have multiple complex medical, psychological and substance abuse issues c…
Cole Lea grew up in a large working class family with her bare feet both on the rolling green hills of Pittsburgh and the Appalachian trail in south central Pennsylvania. She comes from a long line of troublemakers and storytellers! She fell in love with water, words, weeds, mountains, mud, and music at a very young age. She has worked in the environmental movement since 2001 training countless agitators and community organizers fighting for environmental justice and the human right to …
Kathryn McCabe is a Western Clinical Herbalist living and practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She started out heading towards a Physical Therapy degree, wanting to heal people through exercise,
massage and movement. After graduating with a Degree in Kinesiology, the study of human movement,
she worked in the Physical Therapy field with people with sports and orthopedic injuries and then with
children with disabilities. Over the years she felt that just treating the mus…
…A San Francisco native, Elizabeth grew up surrounded by the natural beauty of the mountains and the Pacific Ocean and easily fell in love with nature. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Barbara. Tired and weary of politics, profit-before-people, and bandage solutions, she turned to holistic methods to make dramatic shifts in her own health. She believes that each person is a unique individual with unique needs. Elizabeth’s goal is to make her
Kerry Hughes, M.Sc., is an Herbalist and Ethnobotanist who has long-worked in deepening the relationship between plants and people. She believes plants hold specific medicinal, nutritional and spiritual properties that we crave in order to create a life for ourselves that is worth living. It is from this philosophy she builds an herbal practice.
Kerry has spent the past couple decades studying the multiple uses of plants, and in this time has authored several books: The Incense Bi…
Katie grew up in a small coastal town of 2,200 in Maine and spent the first 18 years of her life falling in love with the rocky coast and marveling at the transformations of the four seasons. She obtained her B.S. in Plant Sciences at the University of Connecticut after becoming discouraged by her pharmacy studies; she wanted to help people, not aid in the market of blind pill-pushing. After graduating, a spontaneous move across the country to California ensued, landing her in the Bay Area. …
