Hi, I’m Vera Lee.

I’m an entrepreneur, author, certified master herbalist, and a rewilding woman.

I believe that meaningful systemic change happens at home, not on a stage.

I was born into a family I would later choose to leave behind, even changing my name in the process. I understand firsthand how systems of power and control operate at every level, from the intimate to the institutional.

I earned my Bachelor's degree in Business Management while working full-time, earning my master herbal certificate from The Herbal Academy of New England, and surviving an abusive marriage that began when I was 18. At 19, I launched my first business, which became my pathway to freedom. In 2019, I left that marriage, packed up my cat and three rescue dogs into a thirty-two-foot RV, and moved alone to the Oregon coast, where I planned to write a book on healing after sexual assault and hoped the ocean and the forest could help me heal.

Spoiler? Both things happened.

Since then, I've built multiple businesses and self-published three books, including two works of non-fiction and a feminist LGBTQ+ retelling of a classic fairytale that dismantles purity culture and challenges the romanticization of child marriage in Disney narratives. While working on my thesis project for my Master Herbalist certification and working with my friend Carly at The Habit Ayurveda, I deepened my connection to plant medicine and traditional healing practices.

Today, my work centers on making complex systems accessible, empowering people to understand power structures, and creating resources that meet people where they are.

Rewilding is personal, but it’s also political in the same way that everything is political (and in the same way that everything is poetry).

My commitment to activism is grounded in lived experience. I know what it means to come from nothing and to find community on the other side of survival. I've learned that rest and pleasure aren't indulgences—they're acts of resistance in a system designed to keep us exhausted and compliant. I draw inspiration from artists and activists who refuse to be confined by convention: Dolly Parton's gregarious generosity, Patti Smith's punk poetry, Hozier's reverence for the sacred in the secular, Selena Gomez's entrepreneurial courage, and Taylor Swift's refusal to play small or age out of an industry that doesn't treat women like human beings.

Through my writing and business work, I create spaces where people can examine systems critically without shame and where personal development is recognized as a key factor in collective liberation. I believe that understanding how wealth and oppression work isn't about becoming cynical—it's about becoming empow

Your existence makes you qualified. Your questions make you ready. Your joy is your resistance.