The great love of Arielle’s life is the natural world. She is a clinical herbalist, a registered nurse with 10 years of experience, and a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner in training, with a deep reverence for humans and the ecosystems we inhabit.

She prefers to be outside, riding her bike on gravel roads, creating with her hands, wandering through the woods following animal trails, or finding HaShem among the tadpoles growing legs in the pond. She is particularly passionate about weaving together scientific, traditional, and ecological understandings, empowering people to have agency in their experiences of health, and tending to the genuine joy of connecting more intimately with plants, place, and ancestral practices.

Kelsey’s mission in this life is to be able to support herself and better their communities as an exceedingly useful vagabond oboist while minimizing their environmental impact. She is a big fan of accountability and transparency, living life openly as a bard and performer, sharing faeral folk songs and stories along the way.

Kelsey is a lifelong learner, holding a bachelor’s degree in both music and sociology. She began her work trade journey at the beginning of 2021 with three months on an off-grid organic farm in the Caribbean. Later that fall they began work trading at the southeast regional earthskills gatherings. Four years and twenty gatherings later, Kelsey stepped into the site coordinator role for the Florida gathering and materials manager for Firefly.

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