Conference Contributors

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University San Marcos; School of Public Health, San Diego State University; Department of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego

Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East History at California State University, San Marcos, Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health at SDSU, and the Department of Visual Arts at University of California San Diego. He is the co...

Jamie Beachy

Psychedelic Therapy Practitioner/Researcher/Professional Chaplain, Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality

Jamie Beachy, MDiv, PhD, is a spiritual health educator, ethics consultant, and psychedelic therapy practitioner. She was a sub-investigator for MAPS Phase 3 clinical trials in Boulder, Colorado, researching the safety and efficacy of MDMA-assisted...

Natalie Bloch

Research Fellow, Lund University

Natalie Bloch is a research fellow in Hebrew Bible Exegesis at Lund University. Her research interests include Second Temple Judaism; Rabbinic Literature; Jewish reception history of mystical traditions; Psychedelics and religion; and contemporary Hebrew...

Jamie Clark-Soles

Professor of New Testament Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Director, Baptist House of Studies, Southern Methodist University; PULSE Affiliated Fellow

Rev. Dr. Jaime Clark-Soles is Professor of New Testament and Founding Director of the Baptist House of Studies at Perkins School of Theology, SMU in Dallas, TX. She holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Reanna Daniels

PhD Candidate, University of Saskatchewan

Reanna Daniels is a Ph.D candidate with the University of Saskatchewan. She is a passionate educator from the Little Pine First Nation. With two decades of teaching experience, she has dedicated her career to empowering students, particularly in the realm...

Kelly Daniels

Plains Cree, Sturgeon Lake, Sk. Traditional Nehiyaw Teachings

Kelly Daniels was raised in a traditional way on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation speaking his first language, Plains Cree. Old people chose to train him to carry on various ceremonies and sacred, traditional knowledge: as he grew other people shared...

Erika Dyck

Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Erika Dyck is a professor and a Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author or co-author of several books, including Psychedelic Psychiatry (2008); Managing Madness (2017); The Acid...

Shauheen Etminan

Researcher, VCENNA

Dr. Shauheen Etminan, co-founder of VCENNA and Ancestral Magi, merges ancient Eastern medicine and mysticism with modern science to revolutionize mental health through natural drug discovery. Specializing in phytochemical extraction, the neurochemistry of...

Joshua Falcon

Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida International University

Joshua Falcon is a visiting assistant professor of English and lecturer of anthropology with a background in Religious Studies and Philosophy. His research primarily focuses on the philosophical, political, and pragmatic dimensions of psychedelic drug use...

Ben Feinberg

Professor, Warren Wilson College

Ben Feinberg received a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, and has been a professor at Warren Wilson College since 1997. He has conducted research in the Sierra Mazateca region of Oaxaca, Mexico, for over thirty...

Mayanthi Fernando

Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

I am a Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and work on Islam and secularism; more-than-secular multispecies ecologies; histories of the body and consciousness; and gender and sexuality. I am the author of The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and...

Wael Garas

Integrative Physician/Psychedelic Researcher, Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines

Wael Garas, MD is a psychedelic-assisted therapy practitioner and board-certified internal medicine physician. Dr. Garas practices holistic and integrative approaches to health and healing and completed a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the...

Lisa Gezon

Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Lisa Gezon is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her areas of research interest have included various topics in environment and health. She has done research on the drug khat in Madagascar (...

Jacob Green

PhD Candidate, UCLA

Jacob is a PhD candidate in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at UCLA. His research focuses on the history of psychoactive drugs in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work explores how many of the same issues around...

Andrew Green Hannon

Lecturer at Emerson College, Chief Curator of Exhibit on Psychedelics and Society for the Mahindra Center at Harvard

Andrew Green Hannon has a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. He has taught history, American Studies, and labor studies at UMASS Boston and Emerson College. His research focuses on performance and politics in the American Counterculture. He is...

Francis Guerriero

Psychedelic Practitioner/Researcher, Psychedelic Therapy Boston

Francis Guerriero, MA, MSW, LICSW, is a musician, poet, and currently involved in national psychotherapy research exploring healing with psychedelics. His practice of facilitating the integration of non-ordinary states, both endogenous and otherwise...

Victoria Litman

Visiting Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law; Fellow in Psychedelic Law and Spirituality, Petrie-Flom Center

Victoria Grace Litman M.Div., J.D., LL.M. is a visiting professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where she teaches Torts, Cannabis Law, and Psychedelics Law. She is also a Fellow in Psychedelic Law and Spirituality at Harvard Law School’s...

Alisa Lozhkina

PhD Candidate, Central European University (Vienna, Austria)

Alisa Lozhkina is an art historian, curator, and a PhD candidate in Comparative History at Central European University. Her current research is focused on the role of psychedelics in Ukrainian art community after the collapse of the USSR. Lozhkina was the...

Mason Marks

Florida State University College of Law; Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School

Dr. Mason Marks is the Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor at the Florida State University College of Law. At Harvard Law School, he is the senior fellow and project lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom...

Maha Mian

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Suffolk University

Maha N. Mian, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Suffolk University. Her research focuses on harm reduction and uses mixed-method and community-based approaches to explore safety strategies for psychedelics and cannabis use...