Tricia Eastman is a Traditional Medicine Practitioner, a initiate of the Bwiti Fang tradition of Equatorial Africa and Nima student, where she has studied and worked with iboga for over twelve years. She serves as Deputy External Relations Officer of CITEM, the Gabonese traditional practitioners' association, for the Bwiti Fang. Eastman has curated transformative plant medicine retreats worldwide where such use is legal, facilitated the psychospiritual program with ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT at Crossroads Ibogaine Treatment Center in Mexico, and worked with special operations veterans through Mission Within. A longtime advocate and advisor on ibogaine, she counsels on psychedelic policy at both state and federal levels. She is the founder of the nonprofit Ancestral Heart, which supports Indigenous-led biocultural stewardship and the preservation of Traditional Knowledge. Eastman has taught in Stanford d.school's Psychedelic Design program for four years and is the author of Seeding Consciousness: Plant Medicine, Ancestral Wisdom, and Psychedelic Initiation.