A publication of the American Kava AssociationOpen access · Continuous publication · Established 2026

Editorial board

The editors are responsible for what the journal publishes. Every manuscript is accepted or declined by at least one of them.

Editor-in-Chief

Tyler Blythe

American Kava Association; Root of Happiness Kava, Rancho Cordova, California, USA

Editors

Jeffrey Bowman

American Kava Association; Nakava LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Travis Lowin

American Kava Association; Root of Happiness Kava, Rancho Cordova, California, USA

Competing interests

All three editors work in the American kava industry and have commercial interests in kava, and the editors also publish in the journal. How those interests are disclosed, and how manuscripts written by an editor are handled, is set out in the editorial policies.

Correspondence

The editors can be reached at editor@journalofamericankava.org.