IG: @Sunsoul_ary IG & FB: @solflowersconnect Desdemona "Dez" Smith, Founder/CEO of SolFlowers Holistic Apothecarium & Social Health Movement, career health care and business administrator, holistic wellness champion, community herbalist, creative and Renaissance Womxn. With a lifelong passion to become a physician and healer, Desdemona started SolFlowers to address the various gaps in the US healthcare system that leave BIPOC, LGBTQI and other marginalized populations further at a disadvantage in wellness and quality of life. It is their passion to bring about awareness of whole person wellness to effect changes in lifestyle that positively influence quality of life, healing processes and overall well being. They are an aspiring master herbalist, naturopath, sex educator & coach and tantric practitioner. Dez has traversed an wide array of experiences including: hospital and clinic administration, small business accounting and management, film and media production, supporting and providing sex positive spaces for POC/BIPOC, founder and administrator of SolFlowers Holistic Apotherium(@SolFlowersConnect). Dez has also published(2017) an erotic, love laced poetry book as alterego DesdemonaWorks entitled "As A Lion(ess) Thinketh: Closet Proetry;" and in 2019, Dez began a small poetry group - Formula69 - focused on writing poetry in motion short plays, followed by performing the inaugural group's first erotic poetry in motion short at the 2019 Sex Down South Conference. Dez's current film production focus is Afro-diasporic visuals, minority health, and integrative & holistic wellness. Dez enjoys both silence and solace as well as socializing and making new friends; the extroverted introvert. You can usually find them leading or supporting black, fem, sex positive and holistic wellness events or spaces....or doing other hippie bruja shyt.  In addition to various special interests studied throughout life, Desdemona holds three degrees: Master of Health Services Administration - Health Services Management & Leadership from The George Washington University; Bachelor of Business Administration - Management from Howard University; and Associate of Accounting from Capital Community College in Connecticut. Desdemona is also an ordained Minister. They are currently accepting new clients for holistic life coaching and spiritual support: [email protected] to schedule a free conversation.