Melissa Craven
Melissa Craven was born and raised in Virginia. After a short time living and working in Japan, she moved to San Francisco in 2001. She graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM). Melissa enjoys riding her bike, reading and cracking jokes. Thanks to David, she also can be found selling wonderful produce for Star Route Farms at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market on Saturdays.

David Lesseps
David Lesseps has lived in San Francisco since escaping Texas in 1994. He is a graduate of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a licensed acupuncturist (he prefers the term acupunk) and a certified massage therapist specializing in Tui Na.

He lives with his librarian wife, budding paleontologist and racecar-driver son, one cranky cat and hundreds of books in a tiny apartment in North Beach. He likes to cook pancakes, think about returning to aikido practice, reminisce about obscure punk bands, and has been seen selling produce for Star Route Farms.

Jennifer Holley
Jennifer Holley attended the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine with the hopes to one day provide affordable and accessible acupuncture for the people of San Francisco. Jennifer is a native of California and has lived in San Francisco since 1994. Prior to her working at Circle Community Acupuncture, she maintained a private practice at The Lotus Center in the Mission, and was a volunteer acupuncturist and herbalist for Charlotte Maxwell, a free alternative healthcare clinic for low-income women with Cancer. When not reading books about Chinese Medicine, she can be found riding her bike about town, drinking green tea at home with her cat Connor, or hiking Bernal Hill with her pit bull, Hooch. She found her path to Traditional Chinese Medicine through her yoga practice.

Rachel del RÌo
Rachel del RÌo is a licensed acupuncturist and graduate of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM). She is a native Californian from a small town at the southern tip of the Central Valley. She moved to San Francisco for school. After interning in the auricular clinic at ACTCM and an overseas opportunity in Shanghai, China, her experiences have helped reinforce the healing power of a community setting. Rachel believes this is the best way to practice acupuncture.

Aside from community acupuncture, Rachel has a love for all living organisms. You can find her in the Mission district walking dogs for the SF SPCA, in the Marin headlands banding migratory hawks for Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, or in the Sunset district looking for bugs in her neighbor's plants. She speaks Spanish pretty well and is fluent in Spanglish.