Kat Maier is the founder and director of Sacred Plant Traditions, a center for herbal studies in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her school's free herbal clinic was one of the first on the East Coast and is a model for other programs. In clinical practice for over 30 years, Maier also teaches widely at universities, conferences, and herbal schools. She began her study of plants as a Peace Corps volunteer, and her training as a physician's assistant allows her to weave the language of biomedicine into her presentation of traditional energetic systems. She is a past president of United Plant Savers and the recipient of the organization's Medicinal Plant Conservation Award.
