Jennifer Medway

Class – Foundations of Palo Mayombe

Sunday, February 28 at 8:15 pm in The Enchanted Parlor

Bio for Jennifer Medway

Jennifer Medway descends from generations of Angelenos raised in Lynwood, CA, which is next to Compton. Jennifer began practicing the occult and esoteric arts at a tender young age when her mother gave her a tarot deck. Rootwork and hoodoo run in Jennifer’s family in Louisiana. Her mother’s cousin, Maybelline, was a professional rootworker whom locals called The Swamp Witch. Jennifer carries on her family tradition and works as a rootworker, Reiki Master, witch, ceremonial magician, and Sancista at her company Serpentine Spiritual Arts. She has celebrity clients (including New York Times #1 bestselling novelists, award-winning musicians, poets, models, artists, scientists, and winners of RuPaul’s Drag Race) and international clients as far as South America, Europe, Africa, Canada, Australia, and Thailand. She trained with some of the top occult professionals internationally and is a member of Ordo Templi Orientis. Jennifer presented Working with La Santa Muerte during the Dr. Daisy L. Machado lecture at Vanderbilt University. She is researching the occult sciences and folklore while a master’s candidate. Jennifer attended Stanford, UCLA, and UC Berkeley, where she earned her BA in English. She has published spiritual poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction in several journals, including Cornell’s Rainy Day and Goddess and the Moon Metaphysical Journal. Jennifer is also a successful equestrian with many championships, and her students have won five state championships. Jennifer has given occult presentations at Starwood, Pantheacon, WitchCon, Gather the Witches, Kaleidoscope, Paganicon, Sirius Rising, DragonFest, WitchesFest, The Witches Gathering, Pagan Unity Festival, Los Angeles Pagan Pride, Philadelphia Pagan Pride, Chicago Pagan Pride, Puget Sound Pagan Pride, Nashville Pagan Pride, and New Orleans Pagan Pride.

Jennifer was adopted and raised Jewish, but she recently completed extensive genetic testing. She is teaching the spirituality and religion of her ancestors who are the following:

Puerto Rican, Mexican, Spanish, African Caribbean (including Taino), Colombian, Italian, African (Nigeria), Indian, Peruvian, British, Chinese, Japanese, and Slavic.

Jennifer’s professional values, professional ethical principles, and ethical standards are similar to those of a licensed professional counselor.

Visit Jennifer Medway online at serpentinespiritualarts.com