Amicolle spent his teenage years as a "hardcore kid" on the Lower East Side in downtown New York. At the time, the Lower East Side was the epicenter of the hardcore punk music scene driven by the legendary CBGB music scene and the Halley Krishna vegetarian movement. At the time, she called herself "Hippie Skin" with her green bangs and shaved head.
At the age of 18, she traveled to Africa and the Caribbean and came across shea butter in an open-air market in Senegal. And in the 90s, she began to study herbal medicine, and in 1997 she founded Amikole's Shea Butter.
Amicolle, who has lived on the Lower East Side since 1986, has seen the change in the place and some of the things that have remained the same. As the times changed drastically, large corporations moved in, occupying community gardens and artists' homes, and displacing many punk friends. Since then, the city itself has changed, and vegetarianism and a holistic lifestyle have become mainstream.
In 2009, Amikole received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from New York University, becoming "Dr. Amikole." In 2016, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training course. Today, Amikore is a mother of three children who splits her time between New York and Belize (a country in northeastern Central America) with a lot of passion for teaching medical anthropology, herbalism, and vinyasa yoga.
"Amikole" is an organic brand originating from the Lower East Side, and the shea butter she represents is a unique product born from her passion and sincerity. Now, shea butter with her "love" is delivered all over the world.