Erika is a Clinical Herbalist, aromatherapist, distiller, grower, and medicine-maker who consults from Sovereignty Herbs in Athens and Columbus, OH. She holds a degree in Herbal Medicine from the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK and the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, Glasgow, UK. She is a professional member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (UK) and the AHG. Through her clinical practice, Erika seeks to encourage positive, learned relationships between plants and people and people and their bodies. Erika is both a student and teacher of horticulture, native medicinal plant conservation and ecology, and the phenomenological and Goethean study of plants and their medicinal virtues. She is a member of the Education Advisory Council of the AHG as well as the Stewardship Committee of Appalachia Ohio Alliance.