Leadership

Tom Newmark

 

Chairman of the Board, Sacred Seeds

and Co-founder of Semillas Sagradas, Costa Rica

Michael Balick, PhD

 

Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology Curator,

Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden

Rainer Bussmann, PhD

 

Director of the William L. Brown Center and

William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Steven Farrell

 

President of Luna Nueva and

Co-founder of Semillas Sagradas, Costa Rica

Board of Advisors

Wendy Applequist, PhD

Assistant Curator,

William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Founder and Executive Director, American Botanical Council

Editor and Publisher of HerbalGram

Editor in Chief,

Organic Gardening Magazine

Economic Botanist

Author and Founder of Green Pharmacy Garden

Sacred Seeds Program Manager,

William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Toni Kutchan, PhD

Oliver M. Langenberg Distinguished Investigator,

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Director of Sustainability, New Chapter

Ethnobotanist and Co-founder of Semillas Sagradas, Costa Rica

Chairman, Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (IAIM),

Advisor, Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)