Who We Are

Jocelyn Boreta

Co-founder and Executive Director. The Botanical Bus: Bilingual Mobile Herb Clinic

Jocelyn Boreta is a community organizer, herbalist and the granddaughter of an Indigenous Farmworker. She is committed to cultivating health equity through culturally centered care. Before co-founding The Botanical Bus, Jocelyn organized weekly bilingual, bicultural wellness workshops with Cultivando para Salud at LandPaths Bayer Farm and worked as a clinical herbalist at Farmacopia for four years. Her activism has roots in 10-years working as Program Director of the Global Exchange Fair Trade Stores. Jocelyn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology from University of California Santa Barbara and certification in herbalism from the California School of Herbal Studies. She believes that “Herbalism is activism. It shows us that we are connected to the earth, that we know how to heal ourselves, our families and our communities with the plants that grow around us.”

Yatziry Galvan

Operations Manager

Yatziry Galvan has been actively working for non-profit organizations in Northern Sonoma County after her graduation from Sonoma State University in 2019. Her dedication to working with the Latine and under-served communities derived from the challenges that both she and her parents faced as first-generation immigrants in this country. She is excited to work with like-minded individuals who have a passion for and are committed to promoting equitable access to health services and alternative medicine in their communities.

Madalyn Sarena Peratoner Berg

Lead Practitioner and Clinical Herbalism Program Coordinator

Madalyn Berg (she/ella) is a traditional energetic herbalist, educator, and visual artist. As a bilingual herbalist of mixed Colombian and Mediterranean descent, working for the Bus feels like a homecoming. With folk healers on both sides of her family, she sees this work as a continuation of the work of her ancestors. Madalyn has been an educator since 2009, an herbalist since 2011, and in clinical practice since 2016. karyn sanders and Sarah Holmes of Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine are her teachers and she practices in their lineage. Outside of her work for the Bus you can find Madalyn in private practice at the Community Medicine Cabinet, which she founded in 2014.