Sobande is a community leader, herbalist, teacher and co-founder of Hidden Garden’s Afro-Botany Conference. Based in Tenessee, she has dedicated her life to sharing her African American healing traditions, which were passed down to her from her great-grandmother. Sobande brings together African wisdom, personal wellness and the important movement to bring Africana ethnobotany back to those who lost it. She teaches at conferences around the country as well as through her own school, Natural Choices Botanica.