Journei Bimwala is an expert forager, clinical herbalist, and a Bronx community leader, who is passionate about educating local families on how to use native plants for health, nutrition, and well-being. She grew up in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she learned to forage alongside her grandmother, and continued to develop her skills in woods and meadows when she moved to France. Her background is a mix of ancestral knowledge, oral histories, observations in nature and formal courses in botany. Since 2017, she has been co-chair of the Bronx River Foodway at Concrete Plant Park, one of New York City’s rare sustainable food landscapes and its only edible food forest where people can still forage legally. She is CEO and founder of EachOneCarryOne, a school whose mission is to improve and sustain the health and wellness of Black families within the African Diaspora, and improve generational health & well-being by providing foundational living skills that rely on the resources provided by nature. There she teaches about apothecaries with tinctures, teas, salves, and syrups, foraging, and herbal medicine. She is an educator and has taught at the NY Botanical Gardens about Urban foraging: Food sustainability & Survival,  and educates the staff, partners, and volunteers at The Bronx River Alliance about the importance of medicinal and native plants and how to incorporate them into everyday life. During 2020, she led countless virtual tours of the Foodway and cooking demonstrations that brought nature and healing to hundreds of people who were isolated and often trapped indoors during the COVID pandemic. Journei Bimwala has being featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Thrillist, Creative Time NY, Bronx Net, and many more.