Arianne Banda is a performance artist and practitioner of Afro-Indigenous medicine. Born and raised in South Africa and descendent of the Chewa and Shangaan people of Southern Africa, she has resided in the US in recent years and currently lives in New York City. She has a BFA from Boston University. Arianne is an avid forager and creator of herbal remedies and natural body products. She is in love with poetry, writing, painting, acting, and vocal performance, and has found that her artistic endeavors fuse well with the ideals of traditional medicine and forge a healing path. When we heal, we change—and art is change imagined, and enacted.