Atava Garcia Swiecicki, MA, RH (AHG) (she/her/ella) is the author of The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Herbal Medicine and Rituals for Healing. Atava is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their own ancestral medicine.
Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas and traditional knowledge keepers. She was the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine in Oakland, CA where she trained hundreds of curanderx and herbalists. Atava loves helping people build relationships with plants, whom she considers some of our greatest teachers and healers.