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Steve Rolles is the Senior Policy Analyst for the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, where he has worked for over 20 years on drug policy and law reform analysis and advocacy, promoting more just and effective drug policies that center public health, human rights and sustainable development. This work includes lead authorship on numerous reports, academic papers, and books, including How to Regulate psychedelics: A Practical Guide. He has served as an adviser and lead drafter for the Global Commission on Drugs, and is acting as a consultant on drug policy and regulation for several European Governments and UN agencies.
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Anne Kiehl Friedman is an award-winning author, founder, and communications expert based in Washington, DC. She recently published Higher Love: A Psychedelic Travel Memoir of Heartbreak and Healing, which debuted as a #1 New Release on Amazon in Medicine & Psychology. Called “a memoir that’ll have you traveling, tripping, and seeing yourself in the passenger seat of a meaningful story of discovery,” by the Independent Book Review, it is changing the conversation on women and psychedelics.
Anne began her career in communications as a speechwriter/ghostwriter for prominent names in politics and Hollywood before starting Bold Ink, a strategic communications consultancy for non-profits. She graduated from Stanford University with honors and obtained her MBA from ESADE University in Spain. Anne is a passionate advocate for holistic well-being and spiritual growth and was ordained as an Interfaith Minister and Reverend after attending seminary at the Berkeley Chaplaincy Institute.
In 2023, identifying an unfilled need for better mainstream understanding of psychedelics and their healing potential, Anne co-founded The Psychedelic Communications Hub, a non-profit public engagement organization focused on public education and advocacy.
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Dr. Glauber Loures de Assis is a researcher of sacred plants and their traditions and a psychedelic dad. He has a Ph.D in sociology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and the co-editor of the book ‘Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices’. Glauber is the founder and president of Céu da Divina Estrela, a legal and tax-exempt Santo Daime ayahuasca church in Brazil.
He has 15 years of experience with ayahuasca and other sacred plants and has led more than 500 ceremonies in Brazil, Europe and the United States, and has built this practice in dialogue with his local Brazilian ayahuasca community and with the blessings of Indigenous elders and activists in Brazil. He is also the co-founder of Jornadas de Kura, a plant medicine center in Brazil that promotes an alliance between the ceremonial use of sacred plants, public education on plant medicine and psychedelic science.
He is an Indigenous rights activist and the Director of the Psychedelic Parenthood Community. He is father to 3 children and lives with his wife Jacqueline Rodrigues in Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Ali Stoddard is a mom, functional medicine health coach and online entrepreneur. She is changing the practice of medicine from managing disease to improving wellness by calming the nervous system supporting the immune system and rewiring our health. Her background is 25 years in the operating room, focusing on orthopedics, spine surgery, and oncology and her main focus today is nutrition and reversing disease.
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Emerson expresses directness, naturalness, and the end of seeking. He simply points out to the freedom from all ideas of freedom and the ineffable. A former meditation junkie and an ex-spiritual teacher, he does weekly Zoom meetings and offers one on ones.
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Ash Ritter is an ethnobotanist, multi-disciplinary animist, herbalist, writer and an educator with over 20 years of study in clinical, traditional, academic and directly relational terrains. She is a devotee of curiosity and especially savors the study of history through the woven threads of fungi, people and plants.
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Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home’ (North Atlantic Books) and ‘We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak’, Bayo Akomolafe is the Visionary Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’.
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Mario Alonso Cordero a.k.a “Oneiros Speculum” (The Dream Mirror), was born and raised in Mexico. He is a writer, therapist and an expert in Dreams and Visions, with abundant experience in supporting sacred plant ceremonies and guiding psychedelic integration. He has a master's degree in The Philosophy of Religion and complementary training in Transpersonal Psychology.
Mario has collaborated in different educational and research projects on Psychedelics and Expanded States of Consciousness such as MINDSURF (Psychonautic Education) and is the founder of VIA SYNAPSIS (Academic Congresses) and NIDO (Psychedelic Care in Festivals) and researcher at NIERIKA (Entheogenic Research and Intercultural Therapy).
He has done fieldwork with the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico, and research on traditional mushroom ceremonies and indigenous perspectives on healing and entheogenic cosmology.
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Dr. Manesh Girn is a postdoctoral neuroscientist at UCSF and a dynamic educator in psychedelic science. Known for his brain imaging research on the psychedelic experience, he has been lead or co-author on over 20 scientific publications related to psychedelics, brain networks, and abstract cognitive processes. As the driving force behind ‘The Psychedelic Scientist’ on Instagram and YouTube, Manesh brings cutting-edge psychedelic research to the public in an engaging and accessible manner, distilling complex science in a digestible way.
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