Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Spiritual Herbalist & Founder

Suhaly Bautista-Carolina [she/her], Moon Mother, is an AfroDominican herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer. Her practice lives intentionally at the intersection of plant power and people power and centers the collective wisdom of her community and the ancestral legacy of her people, while creating spaces of agency for folks to enter into their own healing. She is a 2018 graduate of the Sacred Vibes Apothecary spiritual herbalism apprenticeship, and carries out her purpose through small batch, moon-powered plant medicine offerings, justice-forward collaborations, workshops, knowledge-shares, and beyond. She has hosted plant medicine-making workshops with organizations including Gossamer, The Wing, Creative Time, Weeksville Heritage Center, The Museum of the City of New York, Ethel’s Club, The Highline, and Fotografiska and currently co-leads an ongoing “Lunar Herbs” workshop series with GoldFeather. She has also guided workshops at the 2nd and 3rd Annual NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conferences. The Moon Mother is a proud member of United Plant Savers, Herbalists Without Borders, and Queer Healers.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Bustle, and Nylon Magazine, among others.

The Moon Mother is living + loving in Brooklyn, on unceded Lenape and Canarsee land, with her wife and their baby girl, Luna.

Raysa Soriano, Director of Operations

Raysa [she/her] is a Dominican cultural producer, community organizer, mother, founder of Taberna Cultural, and former owner of Don Quixote Restaurant. She is the Director of Operations at Moon Mother Apothecary and is responsible for packing and shipping your orders with intentional care and love. Raysa is Suhaly’s mother and Luna’s grandmother aka “Abue.”