Herbalism for All: Foundational Tools for Climate Resilience

Super Sessions is Seeding Sovereignty's new quarterly event series that brings our climate justice podcast to life via dynamic conversations and practical mini-workshops to build warm community and shared knowledge for climate resilience.

A calming evening of education and community using herbalism as a grounding and healing tool in the climate movement, with an emphasis on offering a place to rest and regenerate for frontline activists coming to NYC at the beginning of climate week. 

Join us for a panel conversation on the history of herbalism in communities and how herbs support rest and resistance, followed by an herb blending workshop. Leave with your own personal herbal blend to carry you through climate week! We will be using Linden, Elderberry, Hawthorn Berry, Lemonbalm, Chamomile, Hibiscus, and Tulsi.

6:00pm Doors open

6:30pm Panel begins

7:30pm Workshop begins

8:00pm Wrap up and cross-pollination

A collaboration between Seeding Sovereignty's Madeleine and Isaias Hernandez, featuring Antonia Estela Pérez and Yam Vallis (Seeding's Mutual Aid Coordinator and resident Herbalism expert!) for a healing evening of shared knowledge and physical herbal bundle creation.

Madeleine MacGillivray

Madeleine MacGillivray (she/her) is a lifelong climate justice advocate and science communicator. Madeleine is the Climate Communications and Policy Coordinator at Seeding Sovereignty, where she educates and organizes at the intersection of plastics and climate. With Seeding, she hosts the podcast called Superseed, which answers the big collective question, "What can I do to further climate justice?” by featuring passionate climate doers across all sectors who have found their climate superpowers.

Isaias Hernandez

Isaias Hernandez is an environmentalist, educator, and creative devoted to improving environmental literacy through content creation, storytelling, and public engagements. Isaias is more commonly known by his moniker, Queer Brown Vegan: the independent media platform he started to bring intersectional environmental education to all. His journey to deconstruct complex issues, while centering diversity and authenticity, has resonated with a worldwide audience. He recently co-founded the Symbiocene events company that operates worldwide. Isaias is based in Los Angeles & New York, working as a full-time content creator, public speaker, and dog parent.

Antonia Pérez

Antonia is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist, gardener, educator, community organizer, and founder. Born and raised in New York City, in a first-generation household which nurtured the values and principles of nature appreciation, land stewardship, interdisciplinary education, and social justice—Antonia’s lifelong passion for herbs and plant medicine helps to bridge the relationships between rural and urban spaces. Antonia combines a decade of experience studying and working with plant medicine, with her studies in environmental and urban studies at Bard College, Clinical Herbalism, and learning with herbalists and elders throughout Central and South America. Antonia facilitates workshops and produces events as the co-founder of NY-based collective—Brujas—and as founder of Herban Cura: An herbal medicine and education project which centers the knowledge and stories of Indigenous, Black, Queer and Trans communities. Antonia’s work is rooted in her passion for sharing knowledge that interrupts notions of individualism and separatism from nature to grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities.

Yam Vallis

Yam is an Afro-Indigenous fifth-generation herbalist with a MS in Clinical Herbal Medicine. Raised by a small rocky creek on Piscataway lands (“Washington DC”), with ancestral ties to the Lenapehoking (“Philadelphia, PA”) where they currently live, Yam comes from a lineage of healers and storytellers. In their art and work with herbs, they are committed to building and imagining a future that centers on food & medicine sovereignty, abolition, and deep ancestral healing. Yam believes that reclaiming our ancestral relationship with plants can empower and uplift individuals by radically changing their relationship with their bodies and the land around them.

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... and more to come!

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

299 S 4th St, 299 South 4th Street, Brooklyn, United States