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Advisors & Representatives
Advisor
Joaquin Orozco, MS
(He/Him)
Army Combat Medic, Founder of Decriminalize Nature Albuquerque & Board member of Decriminalize Psychedelics New Mexico. Instructor for cannabis health courses at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Psychology Department, co-facilitator for Psychedelic Legacy, an online, 10-week synchronous psychedelic incubator course for BIPOC folks. Joaquin is also a research assistant for UNM’s College of Population Health, developing interventions targeting key social determinants of health in New Mexico. Seeking to improve psychedelic ecosystems by promoting sacred and responsible relationships to plant medicines, and to support psychedelic networks that are generative for radical re-imagining.
Advisor
Zach Skiles
(He/Him)
Marine Veteran & lead therapist who worked on the first psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy trials at the VA & the first MDMA-assisted group therapy trials w/ MAPS at the Portland VA.
Advisor
Professor Hailey Maria Salazar (She/Ella/Aapo)
Artist, Activist, Medicine Keeper & Humanities faculty at Evergreen State College in the Native Pathways Program. Hailey Maria also serves as a board director of Copyleft Cultivars, a nonprofit working to preserve and protect vulnerable plants through copyleft, education, and research.
Advisor
Desireé B Stephens
(She/Her)
Desireé B Stephens is a trauma-informed decolonization counselor, educator, and founder of Make Shi(f)t Happen, a B Corp dedicated to liberation through decolonization and whole self-healing. With a mission to dismantle oppressive systems, Desireé leads initiatives like Liberation Education Academy, which offers resources and tools for holistic DEIA work, and collaborates on community healing practices and actionable allyship. Her work includes creating transformative content, courses, and podcasts, aiming to foster intentional intersectional communities. As an advocate for sustainable advocacy, Desireé emphasizes the importance of grace, empathy, and interconnectedness in her holistic approach to DEIA and mental health in activism.
Advisors
Dianna & Sharon Shankland
(She/Her, She/Her)
Dianna is a USAF Veteran and a 25-year Respiratory Therapist/ Educator. She and her wife, Sharon, have been together since 2005. They serve as mycological outreach advisors and proponents of plant medicine decriminalization. Their passion lies in educating the public to eliminate stigmatization and misinformation surrounding psilocybin therapies and promoting harm reduction. Both have been sober for decades: Dianna since 1998 and Sharon since 1983.
Representative & Leader of HAAVF Utah
Matthew Butler
(He/Him)
Army, 3rd Special Forces Group, Advocate for Decriminalization of Plant Medicine
Representative
Siobhan BarretT She/Her)
USAF Combat Veteran. Mental Health & Wellness Practitioner with a private practice in Seattle. who provides education, mentorship, therapeutic support & healing through trauma-informed, culturally competent, decolonized Medicine.
Representative
Kali Archipley
(She/They)
Navy, AE1 AW USN-Ret, Mother, Doula, Life & Fitness Coach and Natural Medicine Advocate
Representative
Bobby Carrasquillo
(He/Him)
Army Combat Medic, Advocate for the Legalization of Consciousness
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