Kunling is a high schooler who has experienced loss around her that shouldn't have happened if teenagers had more support through their mental health obstacles. An avid birdwatcher and nature journalist, Kunling wants to introduce nature therapy to her community and show them its ability to help one relax and regain control over life.
Cameron is a high school student who enjoys exploring, hiking, and fishing. He also enjoys drawing and painting, as well as drones and environmental autonomy. He always tries to find time to spend in nature even as school gets busier. Cameron believes in the power of healing that nature beholds.
Solum is a San Antonio high school student with aspirations of becoming a pediatrician and is passionate about collecting stickers and pressing flowers. They enjoy spending time outside with their dogs, painting, and making jewelry in their free time. Sol has struggled with mental health issues in the past, and now hopes they can help others overcome their own struggles through connecting with the outdoors.
Djassi DaCosta Johnson is a dancer, choreographer, actor, photographer, filmmaker, anthropologist, writer, designer, Doula and mother. She creates dances, photography, performance art, dance films, documentaries, wearable art and herbal / fungal earth medicines.
Djassi began developing a plant medicine-based herbal practice over 15 years ago after living in Italy and being influenced by the access to local farm goods and seasonal, natural cuisine.
Djassi has been an avid grounding/ earthing enthusiast since her days in boarding school in Massachusetts. Her work as a Doula has deepened her study of herbs (with an Indigenous focus) and interest in recovering ancestral knowledge and technologies which reawakened a curiosity and connection with fungi. Djassi has always loved mushrooms and began studying the relationship between climate preservation and the fungal world which led to her deep dive into the ecosystem-balancing powers of mycelium. She has developed talks and a movement technique that she shares across educational and wellness platforms around the intelligence and function of mycelium called Mycelium Movement --rooted in Qi Gong, yoga and dance.