AHG DEI Resources

This list is an accumulated gathering of AHG resources. We plan to refresh this often, and welcome suggestions!

AHG Webinars:

  • Herbalism in Detroit: Organizing, Self-Care, Social Justice, and Media Narratives with Lottie Spady (2021). Watch the recording.
  • Herbalism on a Food Stamp Budget with Jen Stovall (2020). Watch the recording.
  • The Plants of Black Freedom with Leah Penniman (2019). Watch the recording.
  • Transnatural with Kara Sigler (2016). Watch the recording.
  • Politically Compassionate Herbalism with Mary Blue (2016). Watch the recording.

AHG Symposium Recordings:

  • Panel – Trauma-Informed Herbalism in Our Communities with Leslie Chaison, Anna Gilbert-Muhammad, Quai Nystrom, Tiran Sahar (2021). Watch the recording.

Journal of the American Herbalists Guild:

  • Exploring the Role of the Clinical Herbalist in Supporting Gender Affirmation, Expression, and Fluidity, Erika Galentin, MNIMH, RH (AHG). (2017) View or download.
  • Gossypium spp. (Cotton Root Bark): A Symbol of Herbal Resistance, Karen L. Culpepper. (2017) View or download.
  • The Life of a Community Curandera: Doña Olga Ruíz Cañez, John Slattery. (2017) View or download.
  • "Red Flags” for Herbalists Working with Vulnerable Populations, Ingrid Bauer, MD, MS. (2017) View or download.
  • Present-Tense Indigenous Herbalism, Joshua Dunn. (2021) View or download.
  • The Second Annual Gullah Geechee Herbalist Gathering, Khetnu Nefer. (2021) View or download.
  • Medicinal Plant Stories in the Herbal Archives: Ethnobotanical Sources, Silences, and Challenges, Dr. Claudia J. Ford Ph.D. (2022) View or download.

AHG Community Connection Articles:

  • Dr. Anthony Kweku Andoh by Essex Igyan (March 2022). View Now.
  • Historical Highlight - Avicenna (Ibn Sina) by Talal Al Hamad (April 2022). View Now.
  • Book Review - African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions by Lucretia VanDyke (May 2022). View Now.
  • My Mother’s Roots: The Tale of an Immigrant’s Herbal Journey by Jocelyn Perez-Blanco (June 2022). View Now.
  • Roots - A Chat with Keren Dolan by Holly Hutton (November 2022). View Now.
  • Rachelle McElhannon - HHP, HNC by Essex Igyan (December 2022). View Now.
  • Book Review - You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance by Asha Frost (February 2023) View Now.
  • Herbal Healing: Reducing Recidivism and Strengthening Indigenous Families by Sophia Boettcher (March 2023) View Now.
  • Diverse People; Diverse Practice: Gender Expansive Care at the Heart of Herbalism by Lyz Moore-Frye, BSN, RN, Clinical Herbalist (April 2023). View Now.
  • Motherland Medicine by Jocelyn Perez-Blanco (May 2023). View Now.
  • Julie Ward by Holly Hutton (June 2023). View Now.
  • George Washington Carver: American Scientist, Indigenous Herbalist? by Essex Igyan (August 2023) View Now.

Other AHG Resources:

Visit the AHG Community Connection Article Archive here.

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