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Arvolyn Hill
Arvolyn Hill
Arvolyn Hill
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Arvolyn Hill is the Associate Director of the Everett Children's Adventure Garden at NYBG. Arvolyn has been working in Outdoor Education since 2015 in New York City. In 2019, she participated in the Lawrence Hall of Science Best Environmental Education Teaching Learning Expertise Sharing (BEETLES) Emerging Leader cohort in California. Where she learned best practices from experts in the field on outdoor education. She also received the Critics' Choice Award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Dive Challenge in 2020 for her role in the cohort.
Arvolyn is an avid Community Herbalist and studied at Twin Star Connecticut's School of Herbalism and Energetic Studies in 2015. She has taught Herbalism workshops for New York Botanical Garden Continuing Education, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Museum of Natural History and The Cloisters. She also holds a Degree in Pan African Studies from Drew University. In 2023 Arvolyn was selected as TEDx speaker at the TEDxCUNY conference presenting on Environmental Education as Empowerment. Over the years, Arvolyn has significantly contributed to ECAG's visibility and accessibility and worked closely with the Explainers and Coordinator to increase the family experience at the Adventure Garden. In her new role, Arvolyn will oversee the ECAG facility and its programs, including school and drop-in programs, Nature Explorers, camps, and the Explainer Program.
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Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
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Suhaly Bautista-Carolina is an AfroQuisqueyan herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer. She is a graduate of the Sacred Vibes Apothecary spiritual herbalism apprenticeship, and continues in the legacy, art, and tradition of spiritual herbalism.
In 2018, Suhaly founded Moon Mother Apothecary, a practice and offering of heart-centered, moon-powered medicines created in the traditional wisdom and knowledge of her ancestors.
She has hosted plant medicine-making workshops with organizations including Gossamer, The Wing, Creative Time, Weeksville Heritage Center, The Museum of the City of New York, Ethel's Club, The Highline, and Fotografiska and currently co-leads an ongoing "Lunar Herbs" workshop series with GoldFeather.
Suhaly is a proud member of United Plant Savers, Herbalists Without Borders, and Queer Healers.
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Corrina Wainwright
Corrina Wainwright
Corrina Wainwright
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Corrina Wainwright, MPH, a public health practitioner and community herbalist, comes to this work through her Southern, Caribbean, and Gullah Geechee heritage. Trained in Green Medicine and Ecological Herbalism by Peeka Trenkle, she is also a graduate of the Art and Practice of Spiritual Herbalism apprenticeship with Karen M. Rose. Corrina's herbalism practice creates a space for the process and pace of growing and healing with plants.
Through her business, Harlem Roots, she centers her family's ancestral practices of fostering community care and joy with accessible plant medicine. When not facilitating or writing, Corrina can be found vending at the Good Food farmer's market in Harlem, immersed in plant studies, or enjoying YA Afrofuturism in her home in Connecticut.
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