2021/2022 Clinical program faculty

Jean Madrone, SEP, RH, is the core faculty for this program. Jean has been studying and working with plant medicine for the last 13 years, and has been in clinical practice since 2011. They completed their Somatic Experiencing training in 2017 and integrate somatic trauma resolution therapy and clinical herbalism. Their background includes clinical herbalism, harm reduction, nutrition, magic and energetic medicine. In addition to their private practice, Jean co-founded and practiced at the Olympia Community Herbal Clinic for 8 years, seeing a high volume of clients from many different backgrounds. Jean believes that our physical, emotional, and spiritual healing is intertwined with the health of the earth and with collective liberation.

Guest faculty

Renee Davis MA RH is a clinical herbalist, researcher, and educator in botanical and mycological medicine. She is a board member of the American Herbalists Guild, a writer for the American Botanical Council, and directs research and development management for nutraceutical mushroom company. She is currently a student of biomedical sciences at the University of Washington. 

Elise Krohn, M.Ed. is an educator, author, herbalist, and native foods specialist in Olympia, WA. She is committed to cultivating healing relationships between people, plants, place, and cultural traditions. During her 18 years of experience teaching in tribal communities, she has worked with elders and cultural specialists to create successful community gardens, food sovereignty resources, a program on healing addiction, and curricula on chronic disease prevention. Elise also has over 10 years of experience as a clinical herbalist, and has authored two books and numerous articles on this and related topics. She is the Traditional Plants Program Director at Garden Raised Bounty, where she is co-developing a K-12 curriculum on Northwest plants called Tend, Gather and Grow. Her blog can be found at www.wildfoodsandmedicines.com.

lara pacheco is a Taíno, Latinx mamita that believes that our collective liberation is accessed through decolonizing ourselves by weaving into the web of ancestral medicine. Lara directly works through this realm with plants, fungi, music and dance. When not caring for her family, land and creatures, lara runs seed and thistle apothecary, an educational resource, and co runs the seasonal wellness clinic that works to provide access to herbal medicine for marginalized communities and brown girl rise, a youth empowerment program for young femmes of color.

Larkin Schmiedl (Forest Heart Botanicals) is a trans & queer herbalist & medicine-maker who lives on Salt Spring Island in “BC.” He studied herbalism at the Wild Seed School and has been hanging out with plants in this part of the world for 15 years. He's excited to build community resources around trans health.

Rhonda Lee Grantham is a member of the Cowlitz Nation of SW WA, which translates to “Seeker of the Medicine Spirit”. She is a direct-entry midwife, herbalist and founder of the Center for Indigenous Midwifery. For over two decades, she has been actively catching babies and supporting culturally-centered programming within Indigenous communities. She is honored to share her experiences in midwifery and plant wisdom; as well as wilderness emergency medicine, cultural anthropology and global health; both at home and globally. She has served alongside Indigenous midwives and healers on tribal lands ranging from disaster relief zones to refugee camps, from reservations to rural birth centers. And everywhere she goes... she is thankful for her plant relatives, growing and offering their medicines, always traveling beside her.

Sean Croke is a wildcrafter, medicine maker, and gardener who has been working with the plants of the Pacific Northwest for a decade.  He is a co-founder of Understory Apothecary which produces small batch tinctures of local herbs, and is also involved in Cascadia Terroir which produces essential oils from native plants.  Sean is a graduate of The Evergreen State College with a BA/BS where he focused on Ethnobotany and Organic Chemistry. Sean has studied wildcrafting and plant spirit medicine with the School of Forest Medicine and studied under Sean Donahue.  Sean is the founder of the Hawthorn School of Herbal Medicine, and has been teaching about Pacific Northwest healing plants since 2012.