Founder
Our Bodhi Project

Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, an artist, organizer, and mindfulness/yoga instructor, is the founder of: the Spiritual Social Medicinal Apothecary (SSoMA), a spiritual and political project; and Our Bodhi Project, which focuses on healthy movement-building through enlivening the connection between social and spiritual wellness.  Sonali previously spent 13 years in U.S. local government, creating, leading, and managing social justice and racial equity initiatives and has had a long community organizing background focused on climate and racial justice, youth development, death-and-dying, and HIV/AIDS-related advocacy and service. She also currently serves on the boards of Bioneers and Worldtrust.

Senior Associate
Devoted Health

Odessa Flores-Vasquez, of Maya/Ojibwa ancestry, is a Native energy healer, dancer, singer, elder advocate and mental health practitioner who has spent her life “re-Indigenizing” rituals, ceremonies, and traditions to restore societal balance and promote collective and individual health. Currently, Odessa leads a movement of Elders in building and sustaining communities to reclaim their innate power as wisdom keepers and seven generation changemakers. Odessa is a key spiritual leader and Senior Associate at Devoted Health.

Professor of Pediatrics and Planetary Health
University of Western Australia

Susan L. Prescott MD, PhD., a pediatrician, immunologist, artist, and award-winning author, internationally recognized for her research into the early environmental determinants of health and disease, is: Professor of Pediatrics and Planetary Health at University of Western Australia; Adjunct Professor in Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore; founding Director of the Nova Network; Editor-in-Chief of Challenges journal; and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the prestigious Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In addition to over 350 scientific publications, Susan is author of several books for the public, including: The Allergy Epidemic, Origins: Early-life solutions to the modern health crisis; and The Secret Life of Your Microbiome.

Associate Professor
University of New Mexico College of Nursing

Heidi Honegger Rogers, DNP, FNP C, APHN BC, FNAP, a clinician educator, is: Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing; Director of Interprofessional Education for the UNM Health Sciences Center; and leader of the Planetary Health Task Force for the American Holistic Nurses Association. Her advocacy and scholarship centers on climate change and health, equity and justice, nature connection, wellbeing, and planetary health. She works with a number of organizations, including: Nurses for Planetary Health, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, the Global Consortium for Climate Change, Health Education Nurses Working Group, and the Planetary Health Alliance. Heidi is also a Facilitator with “the Work That Reconnects” and a certified “Nature and Forest Therapy Guide.”