Mimi Hernandez

Mimi Prunella Hernandez, MS, RH (AHG), has been a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild since 2002. She graduated from Maryland University of Integrative Health, where she completed clinical and research tracks. For over a decade, Mimi served as the executive director of the American Herbalists Guild, where she worked tirelessly to ensure that clinical herbalists have a solid professional community to support their work. Before this, she taught undergraduate ethnobotany at Frostburg State University, where she coordinated the multi-institutional research consortium, Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies. In 2023, Mimi received a Botanical Excellence Award from the American Botanical Council, a prestigious honor recognizing her as a Mark Blumenthal Herbal Community Builder. Mimi recently published her first book, the National Geographic Herbal.