huu nguyen, PhD, is a cultural worker and ritualizer, who is steeped in different cultural practices that are all grounded in unwavering values of a commitment and praxis to restorative and transformative justice rooted in abolition principles. She was born in Vietnam, raised in North Carolina and, since 2001, has been conscientizing in Zhigaagong (a.k.a. Chicago), which she calls home, living on the southside of Chicago with her partner and two daughters.
Her passion is to decenter Western medicine in our public health and medical industrial complex by reinserting the botanical wisdom and cultural healing practices of BIPOC. As a contra mestra in Capoeira Angola, a cultural practice that emerged in response to the violence of the slave system in Brazil, her vision is to share this liberatory practice as a pathway towards individual and collective consciousness-sovereignty. She loves singing to her plants, walking on her hands, swimming in the Mishigami, and doing dhikr.
Contributions to Humans & Nature Press:
• Soil Loss Is Soul Loss
A response to “What can we learn from the soil about our fundamental interconnectedness?”
Additional Noteworthy Links:
• UIC School of Public Health
Learn more about huu nguyen’s work.
Photo credit: Beto de Freitas
