Collaboration
Work With Dr. Lakisha®
Collaboration is built around the work that advances the science and the people it serves: scientific and industry consulting, speaking, the apprenticeship pathway, and endocannabinoid system education.
Industry and Scientific Consulting
Advisory work at the intersection of pharmacognosy, endocannabinoid system science, and regulated botanical development. Engagements span research design, botanical drug development strategy, regulatory framing, and program architecture. Commercial consulting is contracted through TGR Holding Inc.
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Talks and lectures for institutional, academic, policy, and industry audiences on botanical drug discovery, the FDA Botanical Drug Development pathway, endocannabinoid system education, and building equitable, evidence-generating health infrastructure.
Invite Dr. Lakisha to speakApprenticeship
A whole-being study of herbalism for serious students, offered in tiers. The apprenticeship pairs clinical and botanical study with a service practicum, so that learning and service move together.
Explore the apprenticeshipEducation
Endocannabinoid system education, webinars, and clinical guidance frameworks written for practitioners and informed readers. Structured to build understanding rather than to sell a product.
See the writings and frameworksEducational engagement only. Dr. Lakisha does not provide individual patient consultations through this site, and nothing offered here is a diagnosis, a treatment, or a promise of outcome.
Consulting
Scientific and industry advisory.
Advisory work at the intersection of pharmacognosy, endocannabinoid system science, and regulated botanical development. Dr. Lakisha works with organizations that are building botanical or endocannabinoid programs and want them held to a real standard of evidence. Commercial engagements are contracted through TGR Holding Inc.
Research and Study Design
Designing rigorous, IRB-ready botanical and endocannabinoid system research, from question to protocol, with community-anchored, translational study architecture.
Botanical Drug Development Strategy
Navigating the FDA Botanical Drug Development pathway, and positioning a botanical as a characterizable, multi-constituent therapeutic rather than a single isolated molecule.
Formulation and Product Development Guidance
Guidance on botanical and phytocannabinoid formulation and product development, from concept to a characterized, quality-controlled, and standards-aligned product. Advisory support to your team; your formulations remain your own intellectual property.
Regulatory and Evidence Framing
Aligning a program to recognized standards, framing the evidence strategy, and building the record that can stand in front of regulators and reviewers.
Endocannabinoid and Pharmacognosy Advisory
Scientific advisory on endocannabinoid system modulation, botanical constituents, and the translation of plant knowledge into defensible, evidence-based claims.
Program and Ecosystem Architecture
Building the infrastructure around the science: partnerships, program design, and the equity framework that gives the work its purpose.
Who it serves
Companies, nonprofits, universities and research institutions, funders, and policy and public bodies developing botanical, Cannabis, or endocannabinoid work.
How engagements work
Every engagement begins with a scoping conversation to define the question and the fit. Commercial work is contracted through TGR Holding Inc.; scope, format, and terms are set per engagement. Advisory is available in person and virtually.
Speaking
Book Dr. Lakisha to speak.
For universities, funders, conferences, policy bodies, and industry convenings. Dr. Lakisha translates rigorous science for the room in front of her, without diluting it, and frames it with the equity case that gives it purpose.
Recent platforms include the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and international conferences.
Signature Topics
Novel botanical drug discovery and pharmacognosy; the FDA Botanical Drug Development pathway; the endocannabinoid system, explained; feeding the endocannabinoid system through nutrition; equity as the standard in botanical medicine; and Cannabis as a case study in the science.
Formats
Keynote, panel and moderated discussion, academic guest lecture, workshop or masterclass, fireside conversation, and expert media commentary. Available in person and virtually.
Audiences
Scientific and academic, industry and professional, policy and regulatory, nonprofit and community, and health practitioners and educators.
What Audiences Take Away
A rigorous, plain-spoken understanding of the endocannabinoid system and botanical drug discovery, free of hype, grounded in evidence, and framed by the equity case that gives the science its purpose.
The Apprenticeship
A whole-being study of herbalism.
The apprenticeship is a whole-being study of herbalism: botanical knowledge, clinical skill, and personal formation held together. It is offered in three tiers, each building on the one before it. Learning and service move together: each tier includes a service practicum, applied work that serves the community and the mission as part of the study itself. Apprentices are also welcome, though never required, to support the Kiona Foundation, and a pay-it-forward fund helps keep the path open to aligned students.
Tier One: Foundations
Botanical literacy, the plants and their preparation, and the grounding principles of the work. For those beginning a serious study.
Tier Two: Practice
Clinical and formulation study, case-based learning, and supervised application. For those ready to move from knowledge to practice.
Tier Three: Mentorship
Close mentorship, independent project work, and integration into the wider work. For those committed to carrying it forward.
Format
Each tier includes a private monthly mentorship session with Dr. Lakisha, assigned readings, case-study reviews, an apprenticeship project, supervised or shadowed clinical work conducted in a privacy-respecting way, and written reflections.
What you earn
A certificate documenting your apprenticeship hours at each tier, and demonstrated, supervised competence that builds toward practitioner-level practice, within a lasting community of the work.
Expectations
Regular study and practice, reflective work, a service practicum in each tier, and completion of each tier before advancing to the next.
Duration
Each tier runs one season of study. Dates are set at acceptance.
How to apply
The path begins with an inquiry, followed by a conversation to assess fit, then acceptance into the tier that meets the apprentice where they are. Tier pricing is shared privately with accepted applicants.
Professional certification
Beyond the apprenticeship, a professional certification track credentialing practitioners in the clinical botanical and endocannabinoid model is available by request or invitation.
Have a collaboration in mind?
Tell me what you are building. The right engagements start with a clear question.