Year of Entry: 2019

Raquel Douglas (she/her, FKA Rocky) is a plant-loving multimedia artist, wellness practitioner, and herbalist-in training with roots in Houston, Texas. She’s currently a Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at Brown University, where she is researching the cultural, spiritual, and political elements of Black folks’ relationships to nature and practices of “inner work.” This work, of course, is deeply personal. When she’s not researching, spending time in nature, or writing, she enjoys creating community events and sharing holistic wellness products through her business, Rocky’s Root Care. She grows veggies and medicinal herbs on a collectively stewarded plot on a local, Black owned-farm and is deeply shaped by Yoruba cosmologies. Recently, she’s felt indebted to the medicines of gotu kola, blue vervain, sea moss, ritual, and loving community.