Our Story & Team
The heart and hands behind AZILI
We are a collective of healers, earth stewards, and cultural wellness advocates committed to bringing the healing power of nature into everyday life while elevating the voices and experiences of Black and Brown communities.
Jazzay H'Armani Buncom
Founder, Land Steward, and Cultural Wellness Advocate
Jazzay H'Armani Buncom is a dedicated steward of the earth, culture, and healing. Currently training to become a registered herbalist at the School of Indigenous Wisdom, she blends ancestral knowledge with hands-on experience to nurture wellness that honors both people and the planet.
Her passion for seed saving grows from the understanding that preserving seeds means preserving stories, heritage, and resilience; acts of care that protect the future. Jazzay approaches farming and gardening as powerful ways to restore balance and reclaim connection to the land, culture, and community. Together with her team and community, she is committed to healing and reshaping farming, healing, and food systems that have long ignored or erased Black and Brown voices.
At AZILI, Jazzay dreams up holistic health ecosystems that bring together regenerative farming, herbal wisdom, and cultural care. She creates spaces and products that invite healing on many levels and uplift the experiences of Black and Brown communities. Her approach to regenerative farming and wellness is grounded in lived experience and a willingness to learn through trial and reflection. She believes that true growth (whether in the soil, the body, or community) comes from embracing change, honoring cycles, and trusting the wisdom gained from both success and setbacks.
Jazzay leads with honesty, humor, and a fierce commitment to nurturing wellness that is both deeply personal and profoundly collective. Through her work, she offers rooted partnership in transformation and invites others to reclaim their health, heritage, and connection to the natural world.
Lucie Cishugi
Herbalist | Creative Curator | Climate Caregiver
Lucie Cishugi is a community organizer, herbalist, and climate caregiver devoted to nurturing ancestral memory, ecological stewardship, and creative healing. Born in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and raised in Southern California, Lucie bridges these landscapes through land-tending, cultural remembrance, and sustaining honor to Indigenous communities. Her path is shaped by study, service, and sacred awareness, nurturing the land with reverence while honoring the stories and traditions that guide her journey.
Her work lives at the intersection of earth stewardship, cultural memory, and artistic ritual. Lucie is currently deepening her path as a clinical herbalist through the Well of Indigenous Wisdom School, while grounding her practice in lived experience and immersive land-based learning. Her journey has been shaped by programs with Soul Fire Farm, Regla Soul, Wild Willow Farm, and her ongoing role as Program Manager and Education Lead at S&S Friendly Ranch, where she uplifts education in regenerative farming, herbal cultivation, and sensory healing. Her offerings blend ancestral knowledge, earth science, and a commitment to collective restoration.
As a creative curator and artist, Lucie channels sacred energies and earth-rooted expression across multiple projects and initiatives. She is the visionary behind Ra Sasa: The Resonance Realm, a living prayer and creative sanctuary devoted to Indigenous-inspired expression and the reclamation of our first lands: the body, the earth, and the spirit. Through immersive art, ritual, and storytelling, Ra Sasa uplifts creativity as a sacred birthright and a source of inspiration, guidance, and protection. Sculpting is one of many mediums through which Lucie expresses this devotion, offering art as a portal for cultural memory and collective healing.
At AZILI, Lucie helps steward a decolonial vision of wellness that centers root-cause care, ancestral memory, and earth-based restoration. Her presence invites a return to what nourishes at the deepest level: land, lineage, ritual, and relationship. Through plant medicine, intentional creativity, and communal healing, she co-creates spaces that honor Indigenous knowledge and restore right relationship with the sacred source.
Drym Davis
Ayurvedic Wellness Consultant & Community Carekeeper
Drym is a caretaker of both people and the land, embodying a lineage of healing that is relational, ancestral, and deeply grounded. With over a decade of experience as a gerontology advocate and caregiver for individuals in the I/DD community, she brings compassion, presence, and a trauma-informed approach to every offering.
As an Ayurvedic wellness consultant, trained in Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Drym weaves ancient principles with accessible, community-rooted care. Her work centers the rhythms of nature, the wisdom of the body, and the spiritual richness of tradition, helping others return to balance through personalized healing protocols and culturally grounded education.
At AZILI, Drym co-stewards the vision of decolonial wellness by offering integrative consultations, leading rituals of remembrance, and shaping practices that honor the brilliance of Black and Brown healing. Her commitment is simple but powerful: to help others feel whole, held, and connected in body, spirit, and community.
Our Collective Approach
Land-Based
Our work is rooted in relationship with the earth, honoring cycles and seasons
Community-Centered
Wellness is collective: we heal together, grow together, thrive together
Ancestrally Guided
We honor the wisdom of those who came before, carrying their knowledge forward
Join Our Journey
Connect with us as we build wellness ecosystems that honor tradition, nurture community, and celebrate the healing power of nature.
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