PMS is honored to have Ayo Ngozi sharing her brilliance & guest facilitating a knowledge share with us !
Plants, Healing & Story Weaving
In this class, we'll link plant medicine and radical imagination as we harvest plant wisdom found in traditional and contemporary stories and literature of BIPOC writers and storytellers. We'll be reading from Ntozake Shange and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Zora Neale Hurston and Judy Lin, and storycrafters whose names we no longer know, but whose tales and teachings have become cultural encodings. We will also take some (optional) time to share our own creative works incorporating plant medicine and healingways.
Ayo Ngozi…
(she/her) is a descendant of agrarian Black folks who left the South during the Great Migration, passing forward their practices of gardening and foraging. She has worked as an herbalist for over a decade, with a practice that centers the land, the community, Spirit, and ancestral ways of being. Ayo has co-created several projects, including Planting Reparations and Black Mystery School (an Afrofuturist learning community dedicated to liberatory healing, knowledge and practice), serves on the faculties of the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism and Wild Ginger Herbal Center, and sits on Seed Soil + Spirit School’s Wild Foraging in Right Relationship and Rooted Medicine’s advisory councils. She is currently expanding her vision and practice on the land as a '23-'24 Braiding Seeds and '23-'24 Narrative Design Lab fellow. Ayo lives and grows in on Yamacraw land (Savannah, GA) with her family.
A Virtual Event Series
Tuesday July 16th, 7-9 PM EST
*Please note that these events are for PMS students (enrolled or alumni), and other PMS guest facilitators ONLY!