Shannon "Isabel" Meador

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Psychological Researcher, Cultural Writer, Translator, Digital Marketer

Isabel is a psychological researcher and writer whose work explores the intersection of culture, healing, and human relationships. With a background in research psychology, her studies have examined racism, sexism, gender development, morality, and the limits of empathy and perspective-taking in shaping human behavior.

Her work now extends beyond academic research into lived field experience across Latin America, where she studies traditional healing systems, cultural knowledge, and the social structures that support community wellbeing.

Isabel was first introduced to Amazonian medicines during a period of deep personal healing, where she experienced the transformative potential of traditional practices including Kambo and Ayahuasca. Since then, she has continued to return to the jungle to learn respectfully from Indigenous elders and medicine keepers, particularly within Shipibo traditions.

Through her writing and research, Isabel seeks to document and protect traditional knowledge while helping bridge understanding between Western psychological frameworks and Indigenous healing practices. Isabel also works as a Spanish/English translator, tutor and digital marketer for Medicine of the Peace.