Meet the Staff

• Co-founder and President of Sanctum
• Director of Herbalism and Theology for Sanctum of the Craft

Akiima Shields was raised by her great-grandmother and apprenticed in herbalism and midwifery under her great-grandmother. She studied cunning work, clever work, and witchcraft under her great-grandmother’s friends and contemporaries. She teaches for Sanctum of the Craft on folk magick, witchcraft, herbalism, wilderness survival and wildcrafting, social activism, theology, and specializes in the study of poisons and entheogens.