I have been conducting ethnobotanical and ethnographic research in the Toledo and Cayo Districts of Belize since 2006, primarily with the Q’eqchi’ Maya and Garifuna communities.  I study traditional medical systems and plant-based medicines with traditional healers and herbalists.  Belize is an incredibly diverse country and my research has also brought me to Yucatec Maya, Mopan Maya, Creole, East Indian and Mestizo homes and gardens throughout the country.

From 2004 to 2005 I was a Cultural Researcher for the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing, New York.  I was researching traditional plant-based healing in the Latino and Caribbean communities of Queens, in pariticular the neighborhoods of Corona, Jackson Heights, and Elmhurst.