Alondra Oubré is an American medical anthropologist. Born in San Francisco and raised in the Bay Area she currently resides in

Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most po ...

. Oubré earned her M.A. in anthropology and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in anthropology and medical anthropology from

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

. In 1992, she joined Shaman Pharmaceuticals as a staff scientist. She is the author of ''Instinct and Revelation'', and has written on plant drug research, pharmacology, and human biodiversity.

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Prominent African Americans: Past & Present (aawc.com)

Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni American science writers American anthropologists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-anthropologist-stub