About

Natasha (Natty) Camille is a Black, queer, non-binary Relationship & Sex Therapist born, raised, and based in the New York Metro Area. They are a first-generation Haitian-American, proud Libra, and lover of tiny dogs. In their therapy practice, Wildest Dreams Therapy, they work with BIPoC & LGBTQIA+ individuals, partners, & families to transform painful generational patterns into the cultivation of intimacy & deeper connection with self and others. Their approach invites the mind, body, & spirit to heal in tandem through a combination of attachment, somatic, and psychedelic-assisted therapies. Natty's work is rooted in and guided by the traditions of Black, queer feminism & healing justice.

Ifetayo Harvey is the executive director of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective. In 2022, Open Society Foundations named her a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow. Ifetayo’s experience of growing up with her father in prison brought her to drug policy reform work at the Drug Policy Alliance. In 2013, Ifetayo was the opening plenary speaker at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver, Colorado. Ifetayo briefly worked at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in 2015 where she was inspired by Kai Wingo’s Women and Entheogens Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Ifetayo worked at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) for five years because of her passion for ending the war on drugs. While at DPA, Ifetayo penned the piece Why the Psychedelic Community Is So White in 2016 and began organizing other folks of color and allies in psychedelic circles. Ifetayo comes from a family of seven children raised by her mother in Charleston, South Carolina. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Smith College in history and African studies.

Mara is a queer transformative justice practitioner, decolonizing therapist and imaginatrix, born and raised by the mangroves in Miami. They focus on healing justice for survivors, popular education, pleasure activism, land rematriation, DIY mental health and mutual aid efforts beyond borders. Mara facilitates RJ mediations and workshops to build the skills to get free together at care workers cooperative Spring Up. They run art therapy based mutual aid at the Aurora Loving Kindness Project alongside musician Raveena. They are a steward for others' healing journeys by providing narrative-art therapy at Axis Mundi and land-based healing at Bueno Para Todos Farm, since 2018. Mara utilizes ancestral plant medicine methodologies to build community autonomy when it comes to reproductive justice. Mara is a monthly resident on dublab radio, exploring diasporic dance sounds as Discoteca 3ala Mars.

Jade has lived all over her hometown of Minneapolis, MN and is a passionate advocate for the lifestyle that has supported her path of self discovery. Her journey of psychedelic activism was ignited through free-range experimentation starting in 2014. This independent study led her to an academic exploration of Psychology, Environmental Sustainability Studies, and AFRO Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her time as Vice President of the Association of Black Psychology Students and Mental Health Advocate for adults with severe and persistent mental health matters, aided her search for improving Western healthcare and wellness systems. As an experiential learner, she enjoys exploring the diverse range of truths in this world. She's always learning, integrating, and evolving with the help of her plant medicine friends. These teachings motivate her passion for sparking introspective conversation and organizing spaces such as Big Psych, an activist and education organization that supports community in cultivating a direct relationship with plant medicine.

Lorena is an educator, working with environmental justice, urban forestry, community engagement, and data empowerment. Originally from Brazil, Lorena moved to Portland, OR to pursue a Ph.D. in Urban Studies. In her dissertation, she described the Western criminalization, acculturation, and cultural appropriation of Black and Indigenous values regarding cultural ecosystem services. Cultural ecosystem services include knowledge systems, spirituality, and recreation, such as the values promoted by entheogen substances. These values have been perpetuated in Black and Indiginous ancestrality, but law enforcement and drug war criminalized traditional rituals in communities of color. Lorena’s interests in the drug policy field include safe entheogen accessibility and equity on the regulation of psychedelics to rescue ancestral values in communities of color. As a geospatial data analyst, she is looking for opportunities that include education, research, and support of new narratives for entheogen accessibility.

Soma Phoenix is the board president of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective. She is a psychedelic researcher and integration consultant who works with individuals seeking healing from trauma and spiritual transformation. Soma provides private integration support services and is the founder of Psillygirls.com, a site devoted to community building, spiritual support, and discourse around psychedelic experiences and insights.

Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) is an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and noetic (r)evolution. As performer, curator, and broadcaster, Bushmeat Sound has been an integral part of an emergent radical music community bridging avant garde jazz, electronic noise, and empire-bashing beats. Dr. Stanley is assistant professor in George Mason University’s School of Art where he teaches classes in sound art, sound studies, and critical theory. Stanley theorizes an affective dimension to our experience of historical flow that can be accessed and activated by audio culture. In the musical practice of Black improvisation, Stanley has found ways of engaging historical epochs the world has yet to fully enter. Stanley’s lectures and performances activate our migration out of stagnant historical narratives of oppression and exclusion.

Bianca (she/her) completed her BA in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and Clinical Neuropsychiatry Master of Sciences at King’s College London. She has served as a Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, Oregon Health & Science University, and is currently a Research Coordinator in the Social Neuroscience and Psychotherapy Lab based at the Portland VA. She is currently working towards a career in psychedelic science with the goal of becoming a licensed clinical psychologist in the field of psychedelic research and medicine. She is interested in the potential therapeutic application of psychedelic assisted therapies as a transdiagnostic approach for mental health conditions including anxiety and depression, PTSD, substance use and addiction, and exploring altered states of consciousness. She is passionate about diversity, access and equity in the psychedelic space aspiring to help bridge the treatment gap between conducting research and implementing clinical interventions with an interest in trauma informed and culturally competent care for BIPOC individuals. She volunteers with the Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network (IPN) as Board Director for PsychedelX 2025, has been leadership team member, talk coach mentor and participated in PsychedelX 2022 presenting on “The Racial Inequalities in Psychedelic Clinical Trials.” She has also been a mentee in Student’s for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) Psychedelic Career Development Pipeline Program and featured in SSDP’s blog 30 under 30 Women in Psychedelics. She is a social justice and harm reduction advocate and volunteers with the People of Color Psychedelic Collective and Fireside Project as a psychedelic peer supporter.