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2022 Assembly

The Psychedelic Assembly premiered its first event in NYC on September 10th & 11th, 2022.

Thank you to all of our incredible psyche-delegates
for gathering together.

Aaron Paul Orsini

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Author of "Autism on Acid" and co-founder of the Autistic Psychedelic Community.

Adam Strauss

NYC based comedian, writer, and performer based in NYC. Creator of the one-man-show & human monologue "The Mushroom Cure",

Brian Blomerth

Cartoonist and illustrator. Creator of two graphic novels, "Bicycle Day" (2019) and "Mycelium Wassonii" (2021)

Carlo Rovelli

DIGITAL APPEARANCE: Theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and founder of loop quantum gravity theory.

Charlotte James

Charlotte James

Harm reductionist and psychedelic explorer, co-founder of The Ancestor Project.

Chris Kilham

Medicine hunter, author, educator and ethnobotanist. The founder of Medicine Hunter Inc.

Courtney Barnes

Courtney Barnes

Devoted social justice and regulatory attorney & leading trailblazer in psychedelics policy reform.

Daniel Shankin

Psychedelic Integration Coach and Founder of the community-based organization Mt. Tam Psychedelic Integration.

Dennis McKenna

Ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. Founder of The McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy.

Ethan Nadelmann

ethan nadelmann

Founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs.

Hadas Alterman

hadas alterman j.D.

Founding partner of Plant Medicine Law Group, Founding Board Member of the Psychedelic Bar Association.

Ifetayo Harvey

Writer, advocate and speaker. Founder and board president of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective

Julia Mande

Managing Director at North Star - a nonprofit shaping psychedelic business around psychedelic wisdom.

Julia Mirer

Julia Mirer M.d.

Director of Strategy at Nushama - a network of medically supervised psychedelic wellness clinics based in NYC.

Juliana Mulligan

juliana mulligan

Psychedelic program coordinator at The Center for Optimal Living. Owner/ Recovery coach for Inner Vision Ibogaine Coaching.

Julie Holland

Julie holland m.d.

Psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, and bestselling author of "Good Chemistry The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics

William Leonard Pickard

Leonard pickard

Former clandestine LSD chemist & drug war prisoner. Author of "The Rose of Paracelsus", senior advisor to JLS Fund.

Lindsay Hoover

Managing Partner and Founding Principal of JLS Fund: providing investments at the Intersection of psychedelics and technology,

Maxi Cohen

Independent filmmaker, video and multimedia artist. Executive producer for “From Shock to Awe"

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Scholar of psychedelic literature and ethics at the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS). Founder of Psychedemia.

Nick Gillespie

Editor at large at Reason, the libertarian magazine of "free minds and free markets" and host of The Reason interview with Nick Gillespie.

Pammy Jackson

Founder and Executive Director of the Psychedelic Sisterhood, a community-based womxn-led psychedelic organization .

Sarah Rose Siskind

sarah rose siskind

Comedy writer, TV writer, science writer, co-founder of Hello SciCom, comedian, and psychedelic educator.

Satya Thallam

Longtime federal policy expert and advisor, lead author and negotiator for the federal Right to Try Act.

Sutton King

Internationally recognized Indigenous rights activist, published researcher and social entrepreneur .

Vince Kadlubek

Co-founder and a Director of Meow Wolf, an art collective that has become a remarkable experiential arts company.

Special Thanks To:

alexa lakey

ben hayes

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samuel swanson

sarah fernandez

sky cohen

yahav ben-shoan

Volunteers

Our deepest gratitude towards all of the wonderful people listed above, and to our amazing volunteers: Chanel Smith, Craig Spitzer, Dani Mayall, Hannah McCaan, James Maynard, Lucy Dhegrae, Ritesh Mantravadi, Sakura Meyers, & Victoria Santos. The 2022 Psychedelic Assembly would not have been possible without them all.

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