mandana boushee

Mandana (ماندانا) is an Iranian-American community herbalist, storyteller, earthworker, and joyous member of the mycelial network of liberatory-movement tenders and lovers. 

 

She is a co-founder and educator at Wild Gather, School of Herbal Studies, where she has the deep pleasure of sharing her love and experiences with plant medicine and community care. Her exploration of plant medicine began in her childhood kitchen, where she first encountered the sound of the mortar and pestle finding rhythm, and the smell of rue and angelica smoke curling up from the sofreh. She works to honor her cultural legacy by weaving her traditions and rituals into all facets of her work.

Mandana finds her rooting in supporting her community’s diverse relationships to the land, through empowering personal healing, reconnection, and centering of culturally relevant knowledge, instructions, and technologies. Through her shared wisdom and initiatives in the Mahicantuck (Hudson) Valley, she seeks to offer her community access to equitable care, fertile land, plant medicine, and herbal education.

 

When she's not actively tending her utopic future seeds, she can be found freaking on a puzzle, laying it down at scrabble, reading 5 books at once and drinking tea from the samovar at her crib.