Support the Research
Support the Work
The most direct way to support this work is to support the research it feeds.
Dr. Lakisha does not run a tip jar. The research, the frameworks, and the equity mission all live inside the Kiona Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity. Giving there is tax-deductible, it uses infrastructure that already exists, and it reaches the work directly.
"I do this work because rigorous, dignified care should never depend on who you are or where you live."
Ways to Support
More than one way to stand with the work.
Give to the Research
A tax-deductible gift to the Kiona Foundation supports the IRB-registered research and the equity mission directly. This is the most direct way to help.
Give through the FoundationBecome a Member
Membership in The Alkemist Mother sustains the work while bringing you closer to it. Your founding membership is itself a form of support.
Explore membershipBring the Work In
Invite Dr. Lakisha to consult, to speak, or to teach. Each engagement advances the science and feeds the research it comes from.
Work with Dr. LakishaShare the Work
Send the research, the writing, or the free primer to someone who needs it. Reach is its own kind of support, and it costs nothing.
See the writingsWhere Your Support Goes
To evidence, and to the communities it serves.
Support reaches the Kiona Foundation's IRB-registered research on the endocannabinoid system, generated with the communities most affected and offered with informed consent in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole. It holds the work to a recognized standard of evidence, so that botanical medicine earns a permanent place in the systems that decide who receives care. Health, agricultural, and Indigenous equity are the reason for that standard, not an afterthought to it.