Chelsea Wills is a clinical herbalist, flower essence practitioner, artist, writer, educator, and community organizer based in Northern California. Her multifaceted practice grows from the intersection of plant medicine, creative work, and place-based knowledge, where healing and art-making inform each other in equal measure. All of her work centers memory, imagination, and reverent curiosity.

Her herbal practice draws from her extensive fieldwork in places of transition—from Mayan kitchens and traditional healing spaces in Mexico to the shoreline and disappearing farms of Northern California. This work with plants and people in flux informs her understanding of how healing happens at the margins, in the spaces between traditional and modern, wild and cultivated, individual and community wellness.

As both herbalist and interdisciplinary artist, Chelsea brings a uniquely holistic perspective to plant medicine, integrating ethnographic research, agricultural practices, and community organizing with clinical herbal training. Her flower essence work emerges from years of collaboration with scientists, farmers, and traditional healers, always honoring the intelligence that exists at the intersection of human need and plant wisdom.

Her academic background includes a Master's degree from UC Berkeley in Arts Education. She has shown work nationally and internationally at museums and galleries including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Jose Museum of Arts, and the London Biennale. She has lectured at Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz on topics ranging from plant medicine to food sovereignty and community-based healing practices.

She served as an Equity Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, bringing years of experience with intersectional organizing around food sovereignty and labor justice to her herbal practice, viewing individual healing as inseparable from collective wellness and environmental justice.

Her recent publications include *Home of Milk* (Bottlecap Press, 2024), *Love Letters from the Moon* (self published, 2017) and *Teach Me How To* (Works Progress Agency, 2020).