Camila Romero is an artist, traditional healer, birthworker, holistic massage therapist, herbalist, teacher, and lifelong student of the Earth and its plants—a bridge between worlds + traditions. Mila, a Kaingang native from South America, comes from a family of traditional healers, midwives, teachers, nurses, traditional caregivers, and land tenders. She honors the sacred body of knowledge of the Kaingang, Guarani, and Xokleng peoples of the Atlantic Forest in Southern Brazil. She travels from South to North America, continuously learning from the land, sharing ancestral knowledge and intercultural traditions with communities across the continent.

Mila also works to create and tend to sacred + ceremonial spaces, reminding us to reflect on our relationship to the land, and to all our ancestors. Reforesting our trees and spirits. Seedling to grow sustainable communities on a foundation of kinship, always caring for Mother Earth and our babies. Mila is the creator of Do Centro da Mãe Terra – Indigenous Healing Arts Center, working to keep alive the wisdom of medicinal plants and ancestral healing practices, honoring the knowledge of the peoples of the Southern Atlantic Forest in Brazil.

She works in community to rescue the autonomy and sovereignty of traditional life, self-care rituals, and the powerful relationship between healing and nature. Do Centro da Mãe Terra holds space for healing talk circles and ceremonies, as well as developing courses and experiences to share indigenous knowledge and the memory of our ancestors. With the support of Leeway Foundation through the Art and Change Grant and a partnership with Bartram’s Garden, Camila Romero will execute the first-ever Traditional Healing Arts Community Clinics in Philadelphia. This is a very impactful first step towards our Healing autonomy and sovereignty as the Bipoc community, recovering indigenous practices of Healing Arts that have been in our lineages for generations!