Presenter Bios

Ruth Barrett has taught magical and ritual arts at women’s and pagan festivals and conferences across the United States, in Canada, and in Great Britain since 1980. Ruth is author of Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual and has contributed to many anthologies on goddess and female-centered spirituality. She is also a pioneering musician/ordained priestess, whose numerous recordings beginning in 1980 are among the pioneering musical works in the pagan and Goddess Spirituality Movements with songs and chants that focus on the embodied power of women, goddess mythology, and magically themed traditional folk songs. Ruth is co-founder of Temple of Diana, Inc. You can find Ruth at www.guardiansofthegrove.org www.dancingtreemusic.com

Linda Conroy is a bioregional herbalist. She is inspired by the plants and the feminine. She is the founder of Moonwise Herbs, the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference and Mycelium Mysteries. Linda has apprenticed with and studied with world-renowned herbalists and has herself offered workshops and apprenticeship programs for two decades. Her passion is herbal nourishment through community, wild food, and wild medicine.

Cornelia Cho, MD is a practicing pediatrician, mushroom club president, Re-evaluation co-counseling leader, and life-long explorer of paths to healing, e.g. ancient traditions, microbiome integrity, DIY cutting-edge mushroom methodologies, sharing how cultural & historical messages & traumas can both inform our struggles and provide a conduit for healing and growth.

Dominique Christina is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles in four years, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family's legacy in the Civil Rights Movement and by the idea that words make worlds. She is the author of four books and four children. Her third book, This Is Woman's Work, published by SoundsTrue Publishing, is the radical exploration of 20 archetypal incarnations of womanness and the creative process. She is a writer/actor for the HBO series High Maintenance Season.

Mary Lou Singleton is a mother, grandmother, radical midwife, and lover of the green world. She practiced as a homebirth midwife for over over 25 years. Mary Lou now provides primary health care as a nurse practioner to families seeking wise woman care. Her independent clinic, Enchanted Family Medicine, offers community herbal classes, an extensive herbal apothecary, and a resource center for the women of Albuquerque to build collective sisterhood and support.

Heather Nic an Fhleisdeir is a clinical herbalist, nutritionist, apothecary, teacher and lecturer for over 33 years. Her practice is rooted in communities she serves in Eugene Oregon and Strathpeffer Scotland as the apothecary at Mrs. Thompson's Herbs and instructor in the Academy Of Scottish Herbalism. Heather holds three certificates of training in Herbalism, with additional Mentorship with Naturalist and Scottish Elder Allister Brebner and Scottish Journalist and Author on Traditional Gaelic Medicines, Mary Beith. Dedicating her life to sharing this knowledge, she assists people in reclaiming their own health process, in giving healing aid to their families and in becoming professional Herbalists themselves.

Mary Bue is a performing songwriter, Nada yogi, retreat guide, and a music and yoga teacher based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and often traveling this beautiful world. Her music and teaching is heart centered, spiritually leaning, down to earth, and at times a bit crass. In January, Mary pursued an additional 200 hours of certification in Nada Yoga - The Yoga of Sound in Rishikesh, India.