 | Meet Our Board MembersAngela Schofield is a yoga and pilates teacher, personal trainer and wellness coach. Although born and raised in a small town in Northern California, she has lived and worked in the wellness and not-for-profit industries in Boston, New York City and Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Angela graduated from Suffolk University in Boston with a Bachelors of Science degree in government, specializing in International Affairs. After experiencing a debilitating knee injury as a collegiate athlete, Angela turned to holistic medicine as an alternative to the invasive, toxic and costly methods suggested by her allopathic healthcare practitioners. Her successful treatment soon sparked enough interest to implement holistic medicine and other alternative healing therapies into her own wellness and lifestyle program. As a major contributing factor to her own career in wellness promotion and education - both at the individual and community level - Angela thrives on her ongoing study of various healing modalities and their cultural practices. As her own success story, Angela is committed to educating her students, clients and the general public on the benefits of alternative medicine and other holistic healing therapies. As a triathlete and yogi, she believes in living as an example of holism, along with educating others on how to make these positive healthy and holistic choices, in the hopes of influencing others enough to do the same. Angela lives in beautiful Silver City with her husband, Chris and their dog, Karma. Richard McDonald... from Silver City, New Mexico, has been a clinical herbalist for over 16 years. He was trained in 1991 by Michael Moore, at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, (when it was located in Silver City), and has been a practicing herbalist here ever since. Richard and his partner, Phyllis, live in Silver City, on an acre garden, which they have been enjoying developing over the past 14 years. They have been involved in an ongoing project to locate and transplant, or collect seed from a large variety of regional medicinal plants, so that these days, their entire place is a treasure chest of herbal remedies. Richard propagates many of the herbs to sell at the farmers market, either as live plants or as teas, etc. Mr. McDonald is concerned that new laws and regulations, coupled with the details of the specific language within the subtext of all international trade treaties, could work in a negative way, to destroy the knowledge base of Traditional and indigenous medicinal practices, which has taken thousands of generations to accumulate. Because of these threats to traditional healing systems, he has been quite politically active in the past two years. First, he wrote the original draft language for the bill New Mexico Senate Memorial 20.... which passed in January 2006. Later, in 2006, he began working with an existing group, New Mexico Alternative and Complementary Medicine Project, based in northern New Mexico, to help finish this same work... (creating protection in state law for alternative systems of traditional healing practices, and the practitioners of these systems). To date, this work has been unsuccessful in its efforts to introduce and help pass a Health Freedom bill for New Mexico. Now, Mr. McDonald and Mrs. Schofield have decided to form a new health freedom organization, with a smaller number of very active core members as a more manageable and dynamic group. It is hoped that a smaller, more focused group can bring this work to its final stage soon, so that the new legislation can be ready for the January 2008 Legislative session. |
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