Ellen Kamhi talks with Atava Garcia Swiecicki, who is the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine on Ohlone territory in Oakland, CA. Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas and traditional knowledge keepers. She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher and is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their ancestral medicine. She is also the author of The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Herbal Medicine and Rituals for Healing. www.ancestralapothecary.com