2024 Speakers

April Pride is CEO & founder of SetSet.

She is a Seattle-based serial creative entrepreneur whose work has been featured in Forbes, Vice, and The Guardian. She’s developed brands and products for 20 years. In 2015, April turned her visionary focus to cannabis with the launch of Van der Pop, a cannabis lifestyle brand acquired by Canopy Growth within three years. As the CEO Founder of SetSet, April created the world’s first clinician-approved platform for safe, accessible psychedelic education and integration for women. This member-driven community includes clinician-backed courses and guides plus a directory of vetted practitioners, retreats, and experts to support women’s specific needs.

Barine Majewska is an attorney with Vicente LLP.

She co-leads the firm’s Psychedelics and Emerging Therapies Practice Group. Her respect for psychedelics led her to intern in psilocybin studies at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine earlier in her career, where firsthand experience working as both a research assistant and guide in psilocybin sessions gave her clear insights into the potency and pitfalls of psychedelic work, which continues to inform her legal practice today.

Bill Levers is the co-founder of Beard Bros Pharms.

As co-founder of the award-winning, California-based, multinational cannabis brand Beard Bros Pharms, and the world’s most trusted source for cannabis news Beard Bros Media, Bill Levers draws from a full spectrum of relevant business experience – from the grow room to the board room – to keep an ever-growing audience and client list on the leading edge of the rapid convergence of culture and industry. With a hard earned understanding of the cannabis plant and the community at her roots, BIll brings a uniquely informed voice and undeniable authenticity into any consultation, conversation, or business venture. You can learn more at BeardBrosPharms.com

David Rahn is VP, Client Services at R&A PSYINS (a division of Rahn & Associates).

He is an independent insurance broker specializing in custom insurance solutions for businesses operating in highly-regulated industries. David has been at the forefront of the ever-evolving cannabis industry, establishing S2S Insurance Specialists in 2017. He leveraged his knowledge and experience in cannabis to expand into the burgeoning Nutra-Health Life Sciences areas of psychedelic and natural medicine. He co-founded R&A PSYINS in 2021 to provide psychedelic ventures throughout the ecosystem with access to critical business liability insurance coverages.

Henry Winslow is the founder of Tricycle Day.

Tricycle Day is a free twice-a-week newsletter that covers the latest developments in psychedelic research, policy, and business. By writing in a playful tone, he blends entertainment with education to make psychedelic knowledge accessible to anyone. Prior to launching Tricycle Day, Henry began his career as a marketing and branding strategist for healthcare clients. Meanwhile he developed a dedicated yoga practice, eventually serving as a traveling yoga teacher and teacher trainer for five years. Today, his interests in biomedical science and esoteric spirituality are converging at this pivotal moment in the history of psychedelics.

Jodi Green is the managing partner of Antithesis Law PC.

She is a leading corporate and regulatory attorney and entrepreneur, passionate about helping business owners navigate the complex psychedelics and cannabis ecosystems. Named a California “Super Lawyer” and Top 200 Psychedelics Lawyer, Jodi is also a sought-after writer and speaker for organizations such as Bloomberg and MAPS Psychedelic Science. Jodi obtained her Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law, magna cum laude, and completed Certificates in negotiation and ESG at Harvard Law School and UC California Berkeley. On top of founding Antithesis Law PC, Jodi co-founded a psychedelic integration technology company and is completing a Certificate in Integrative Psychedelic Studies with Psychedelics Today.

Joe Moore co-founded Psychedelics Today in 2015 with Kyle Buller. As CEO, Joe has created one of the world’s best known psychedelic podcasts, blogs and training platforms. Joe combines twenty years of avid research and training in psychedelics with twenty years of experience in software and multinational project management. Joe is an expert in transpersonal breathwork and much sought after international speaker on the intersecting subjects of psychedelic medicine and healing, breathwork, drug policy, medical innovation, international justice and environmentalism.

Joel Stanley is the founder & CEO of AJNA Biosciences.

As the inaugural CEO of Charlotte’s Web, he played a pivotal role in evolving the company from its beginnings in 2012 to over $75M in annual revenue, culminating to a successful IPO in 2018. His tenure at Charlotte’s Web fueled a deep passion for botanical healing, paving the way for his latest venture in botanical drug development at AJNA BioSciences. Joel transitioned from Board Chairman of Charlotte’s Web in early 2021, to focus on pioneering botanical drug development as CEO of AJNA. Under Joel’s leadership in the few short years since AJNA’s inception, the company has successfully raised more than $26M to advance AJNA’s drug development.

Kat Thompson is the CEO of Fractal Soul Service Center.

She leads the team with over 20 years of high tech and entrepreneurial experience in strategy and operations, consulting and management roles at Nike, Twitter and Intel. A lifelong student of mental health, Kat began her relationship with psilocybin through microdosing during her corporate career, which helped her manage heavy workloads. She began using conscious-altering doses to heal generational trauma and process grief, and now communes with psilocybin for business guidance and purpose work. She enjoys working with business leaders, particularly in areas of anxiety, purpose/path, and showing up authentically.

Keyaira Adewunmi is the founder of Spice & Sage.

She is a brand strategist, storyteller, and conscious creator with a decade of experience helping brands like Twitter and Meta translate internal wisdom into external influence. As the founder of Spice & Sage, she helps conscious entrepreneurs transform life stories into magnetic messages and embodied businesses. After an evolutionary plant medicine ceremony called her to help expand psychedelics’ inclusive reach, she began leading research on psychedelic messaging and co-founded Kellogg’s Business of Psychedelic Therapies Conference, earning the Kellogg Innovation Award. Keyaira also serves as Entrepreneurship Director of Northwestern’s The Garage SF, cultivating a 1,000+ alumni network of founders, operators, and investors.

Lisa Gora is a partner with Epstein Becker & Green PC.

She is a health law attorney specializing in healthcare, cannabis, and psychedelic law. She provides regulatory guidance and handles transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. Lisa represents healthcare providers, ketamine clinics, and researchers, helping them navigate the legal complexities of the emerging psychedelic industry. As a cannabis law expert, she advises on licensing and compliance. Lisa co-chairs the Psychedelic Subcommittee of the New Jersey Bar and frequently discusses cannabis and psychedelics on Epstein Becker Green’s podcast. She edited Health Care and the Business of Cannabis, exploring legal questions in the cannabis industry.

Reggie Harris is the founder and owner of Oakland Hyphae/Hyphae Labs.

With over a decade immersed in political campaigns, from local city council races to steering presidential elections, Reggie has a proven track record of effecting change to the intersection of politics, advocacy, and the burgeoning field of psychedelic and medicinal fungi.

Ricardo Baca is a 20-year veteran journalist and drug policy architect. He was appointed The Denver Post’s first-ever Cannabis Editor in 2013 and founded news vertical The Cannabist, where he extensively covered the advent of the U.S. adult-use cannabis market and related issues around the world, as seen in the feature documentary Rolling Papers. Ricardo launched Grasslands: A Journalism-Minded Agency in 2016 to work directly with business leaders in cannabis, psychedelics and spirits. In 2023, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis appointed Ricardo to the state’s first-ever Natural Medicine Advisory Board to contribute to policy development around the state’s eventual psychedelics framework.

Rome Shadanloo is the Founder & CEO of Mycology Psychology.

She is a psychedelic therapist specializing in CPTSD and attachment injury. She studied holistic psychology and has a focus in psychoneuroimmunology working to ease chronic pain rooted in the emotional life of the mind. Rome’s practice includes the various modalities of internal family systems, reparenting work, quantum healing and she is a certified death doula. Her unique empathy for the individuality of each nervous system laid the ground for her practice which supports the healing of the individual not just from their psychology outward but through a fully embodied approach to the restoration of a healthy life. Her desire to be of service led her to a life in mental health and from an early age Rome found herself called to be in connection with those in struggle. Rome went on to do extensive work in the field in a variety of roles at Proposition 36 rehab facilities that specifically serve the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, including on the spot counseling for those in urgent crisis.

Sue Sisley, MD is the President & Principal Investigator of the The Scottsdale Research Institute.

Dr. Sisley is a Montana/Arizona-based physician practicing Internal Medicine & Psychiatry & serves as Principal Investigator of Scottsdale Research Institute for FDA-approved randomized controlled trials examining safety/efficacy of her own DEA-licensed lab-farmed psilocybin mushrooms & cannabis flower for managing chronic pain/opioid reduction/PTSD as well as synthetics like LSD for treating depression/anxiety.

Zach Dorsett is the founder of Wonderbags.

He is an award winning product developer that has worked in the health and wellness space for over 15 years. In 2022 he founded Wonderbags which seeks to make research, education, and cultivation of mushrooms more accessible to everyday people. He is passionate about Natural Medicine and psychedelics and has been deeply affected by them personally.