Midwest Women's Herbal

Linda | Core Team & Founder

Linda Conroy is a bioregional herbalist, herbal, traditional food educator, and community organizer. She dedicates her life to connecting with the green world as well as sharing the wisdom of the earth. Her primary mentors are the plants who never cease to instill a sense of awe in her daily life. For over 2 decades Linda has presented well-received programs and apprenticeship programs throughout the United States. To find out more about Linda's work visit www.moonwiseherbs.com

Bethany | Lead Producer

This budding herbalist, from the beautiful northwoods of Wisconsin, lends her talents as a virtual learning consultant for Midwest Women’s Herbal’s online conferences. She’s been involved in the Conference since 2015 in a variety of roles, and always feels blessed & honored to help hold that container for her sisters. She can’t wait to see everyone in person at future conferences!

Paige | Marketing Coordinator

Paige Haber is bi-costal woman who fell in love with the prairies of the Midwest. Currently based in the Twin Cities as a healing arts practitioner, she serves on the Organizing Team as the Marketing Coordinator and is on both the Scholarship Team and Programming Team. Paige is continuously inspired by the resiliency and diversity of the Upper Midwest and happy to call it home.

Sara | Work Exchange Coordinator

Abby | Marketplace & Website Coordinator

Abby is a multidisciplinary artist, caretaker, movement and meditation facilitator. For as long as she can remember, Abby has been on a journey to deepen the connection to mind, body, and spirit for herself and others. She enjoys exploring and sharing the never ending list of intersecting therapeutic tools the world offers. She is inspired by the MWHC and is grateful to be a part of the team.

Meghan | Registration Coordinator

Meghan is also a Marketing Manager by day and RYT-200 by night. She grew up with her family's love of gardening and uses that knowledge to guide her herbal explorations. When she's not taking her dog Remmie for walks or to the park, she's often reading, creating macrame pieces, and exploring local crystal shops.

Jourdan | Marketplace Coordinator

Jourdan Gailey is a Holistic Health Practitioner based out of St Paul, Minnesota. She specializes in high frequency technologies, Herbalism, mindfulness/yoga for Children and Ancestral reclamation. During the warmer months, Jourdan is an Organic, sustainable, Native plant landscape designer. She also partners with the Pollinator Friendly Alliance to expand pollinator habitat and educate the public.

Kathy, Lady Sweetgrass | Work Exchange Coordinator

As a very young girl growing up in rural Wisconsin I connected with the woods. I found comfort from my first plant ally, bergamot. I would crush the dried flower buds and inhale the aroma. All the abuse I endured, melted away. Thus began my journey, remembering ancestral knowledge and wisdom, both enlightening and guiding me. I have gratitude to many healers and elders, for time spent in the woods connecting with the earth medicines. Always circling back to the healing of self and others.

Ashley | MWH Coordinator

Ashley Oomen is a wife and mother of three who resides in rural West Michigan and is currently embarking on her journey to Midwifery. As someone who loves getting lost in nature she nourishes her soul by hiking, camping, kayaking, wildcrafting, and spending time in her garden. The community of wise women at Midwest Women’s Herbal have created a magical sisterhood that she is honored to be a part of.

Tina | MWH Coordinator

Tina Hope currently works as the Food Systems Coordinator and Yoga Instructor at Knox College. She leads community wellness workshops and classes that weave together the practice of herbalism, resilient agriculture, permaculture and yoga therapy modalities. Tina apprenticed with Linda Conroy in 2015 grateful for the skills and inspiration to create a small herbal business, tinasbotanicals.com, that grows and produces a variety of handcrafted herbal products for the local community.

Maurielle | MWH Coordinator

Maurielle Mcgarvey is screenwriter and mixed media artist residing between Los Angeles and the Midwest. She is a USC and Thoreau College Student with a passion for environmental studies and global folklore. She is incredibly grateful to be assisting with this year’s Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference!

Markie | Graphic & Web Design

Markie is honored to be supporting MWH with graphic, newsletter, and web design! Markie feels at home in the plant world and has been apprenticing & studying in the Wise Woman Tradition for 5+ years. She loves discovering wisdom and magic in the world via travel and connecting with nature, and runs a marketing company focused on supporting local & women-owned businesses, Good Land Creative.