Olivia Arévalo

Olivia Arévalo Lomas (February 1937 – 19 April 2018) was a Peruvian Onanya of Shipibo-Conibo Indigenous people of Ucayali region, a Ayahuasca plant medicine healer, and environmental and cultural rights activist. She advocated “for the recognition of indigenous communities' rights and the preservation of their ancestral territories.” She was also "considered a wealth of knowledge about Amazonian plants and native traditions."

Life and career Olivia Arévalo Lomas was born in February 1937 in the village of Victoria Gracia in Peru's central Amazon region of Ucayali. Between 2009 and 2011, Arévalo worked at the Temple of the Path of Light, a traditional medicine center in Peru.

She briefly appeared in films directed by Jan Kounen that made her known outside of Peru.