Kathleen Harrison

Kathleen Harrison, M.A., is an ethnobotanist who has worked extensively in Mexico and the Amazon. In 1985 she and Terence McKenna co-founded Botanical Dimensions, a nonprofit organization dedicated to collect and share information and lore about plants and fungi, particularly those used in medicine and shamanism. Kat has managed ethnobotany projects in Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Mexico and Hawaii. She currently maintains the Botanical Dimensions Ethnobotany Library in Occidental, in West Sonoma County, CA, where she teaches and produces educational events that feature ethnomycology as well as global and local ethnobotany, mythology, art, and artifacts.