Background Info 

Julene Tripp Weaver (formerly June Arlene Eggler) has a B.A. in Creative Writing from the City University of New York. She chose Hunter College as her main school so she could study with Audre Lorde. In the CUNY program she also studied with Louise DeSalvo at Hunter and  Joan Larkin at Brooklyn College.

She moved to Seattle in 1989 and enrolled at The Leadership Institute of Seattle, an experiential, self-assessment learning program. She received her Masters in Applied Behavioral Science, orientated in Family of Origin therapy, in 1992. She worked for twenty-one years in HIV/AIDS services, with her LMHC she started a private therapy practice. She is now writing a memoir about her experience as a long-term survivor of AIDS.

She studied herbal medicine, with many herbalists, became a certified Green Witch in the Wise Woman Tradition through Susun Weed. She wildcrafts and makes herbal remedies.