About Us


AMERICAN HERB ASSOCIATION


STAFF:

Kathi Keville, Director/Editor

Robert Brucia, Co-Director

Beth Baugh, Research Assistant

Amanda McQuade Crawford, Associate Editor

Mindy Green, Associate Editor

Marion Wyckoff, Secretary

 

Kathi Keville

Herbalist and Aromatherapist

Kathi Keville - career profile:

Director of the American Herb Association and editor
of the AHA QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER

Author of fourteen herb and aromatherapy books.

Writer of over 150 herb articles for national magazines such as Prevention Magazine.

Acted as herbal consultant for many magazines, including National Geographic, Newsweek, and Woman's Day - and for numerous aromatherapy and herbal companies.

Founding and honorary member of both the American Herbalist's Guild and the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy, a member of United Plant Savers, California Native Plant Society, Sierra Club, and Nature Conservancy.



"... For the past 30 years, I've devoted my life to the study and use of medicinal herbs and aromatherapy for that has taught me a lot about the nature of health and healing. I always continue to be impressed with the healing power of herbs. For fourteen years, I co-managed Oak Valley Herb Farm, wholesale distributor of herbal products with an commercial herb garden that contained 400 species of medicinal herbs. Today, I cultivate herbs for medicinal and aromatherapy products at my mountainside home in the Sierras..."


AMERICAN HERB ASSOCIATION CONSULTANTS

Dr. James Duke
Botanist, Herbal Consultant, Maryland

Steven Foster
Herbal Researcher, Arkansas

Cascade Anderson Geller
National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Oregon

Christopher Hobbs
Medical Botanist, California

David Hoffmann
Medical Herbalist, California

Steve Moring
Biochemist, Analytical Chemist, Kansas

Candice Cantin Packard
Ayurvedic Herbalist, California

Dr. H. S. Puri
Botany & Pharmacognasy, Herba Indica, India

Diane Robertson
Pharmacist, Vice President, Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica

Jeanne Rose
Aroma Herbalist, California

Ed Smith
Medical Herbalist, Oregon

David Winston
Herbalist, New Jersey