J. E. Williams is an American acupuncture pioneer and integrative medicine physician, researcher, and writer. He is also an organic gardener, poet, and practitioner of tai chi and yoga, and has worked with indigenous people since 1967 to protect and preserve culture, environment, and intellectual rights. His current work with the Q'ero in the Peruvian Andes includes building projects, education, and community health. He divides his time between California, Florida, Cuba, and Peru teaching Earth-based wisdom and heart-centered spirituality and spends as much time in the high Andean wilderness and deep Amazonian rainforest as possible.