Ethnographic Storyteller | Writer | Narrative Architect

Trained in natural medicine modalities, medical anthropology and immersed in the health and wellness field for over two decades, Drea brings a rare combination of academic grounding and lived, embodied experience. Her background spans neuroscience, nutrition, trauma-informed somatic psychology, and Chinese medicine, alongside field-based ethnographic work in women’s health and community-centered care. She has studied herbal medicine, trained as a labor and delivery doula, yoga practitioner, and Zen Shiatsu bodyworker.

As an award-winning travel writer with more than a decade of experience as a professional writer, Drea has helped doctors, therapists, and health practitioners translate complex bodies of knowledge into clear, cohesive and structured articles, manuscripts and website content. She is a traditionally published co-author of a book on Kriya breathwork meditation with Dr. Lowenstein.

Her work is shaped not only by formal study but by long-term apprenticeship and ceremony in traditional medicine carriers from Lakota, Mexica, Quechua, Hawaiian, Chinese, West African, and Indian traditions. She received initiation by a Kogimama, a Peruvian curandero as well as in Kriya Breathwork tradition. These teachings are held with humility and expressed through her own lived synthesis rather than as representation of any single lineage.

A mother of two children born at home in two different countries, recovery from illness and domestic violence has deepened her commitment to women’s sovereignty, agency, and embodied self-trust. Andrea lives and works between worlds; field and page, story and ceremony.

• Scientific and medical literacy across neuroscience, medical anthropology, nutritional and botanical medicine

• Ethnographic attentiveness and cultural advocacy

• Trauma-informed practice and somatic awareness

• Spiritual discernment rooted in ethical relationship rather than appropriation