Wangui Hymes (she/her) is a healer-activist born and raised in the south Bay Area of California. After graduating in 2016 with a degree in Chemistry from Spelman College, she moved back to the Bay to pursue a career in the health-tech industry. She left in 2019 after realizing that her morals were not aligned with the practices she witnessed in and around the industry. Currently, she is a part of the Mindful Living program at the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages where she hosts a podcast entitled Here We Sit with two of her fellow residents