Dr. Claudia J. Ford has had a career in women’s health and international development spanning four decades and all continents. Claudia is an ethnobotanist and midwife, who studies traditional ecological knowledge, women’s reproductive health, and agricultural and food justice. Dr. Ford is on faculty at State University of New York, Potsdam and also serves on the boards of The Biodynamic Association and the Soul Fire Farm Institute. Claudia is also a writer, poet, and visual artist, and a single mother who has shared the delights and adventures of her global travel with her four children.