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“Beyond the Last Frontier”

Trisha Kulathungam

Trisha works as a preparation and integration support specialist at Soul Centro, an iboga retreat center in Costa Rica. She is an entrepreneur, certified yoga & meditation teacher, and mental fitness coach who has worked in the non-profit, social enterprise, and industrial sectors over the last 15 years. Trisha draws on 5+ years of personal work with ibogaine and Iboga and 2+ years as a Missoko Bwiti student facilitator. She is the founder and executive director of The Higher Learning Foundation Inc. Aside from dedicating her time to HLF, Trish is an active philanthropist that supports youth programs, community nutrition programs, and addiction and trauma recovery programs across Canada. Read Full Bio

Skipper Russell Shimek

Skipper Russell-Shimek is a peony farmer ​and Iñupiat tribal healer from Northwest ​Alaska. With deep wisdom and extensive ​experience in traditional healing practices, ​she offers guidance, spiritual healing, and ​remedies rooted in indigenous knowledge. ​As an elder, Skipper has a profound ​understanding of her tribe’s cultural and ​spiritual traditions. She has dedicated her ​life to enhancing the physical, mental, and ​spiritual well-being of those she serves.

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Sveta Yamin-Pasternak

Sveta, a cultural anthropologist, focuses on the interplay of food, environment, and spirituality in high latitude regions. With a PhD dissertation on ethnomycology in the Siberian Arctic, she has held a postdoctoral position as a National Science Foundation Polar Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University before joining the faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Currently, Sveta leads multiple interdisciplinary research initiatives at the Institute of Northern Engineering, while also teaching at the UAF Department of Anthropology and the Kuskokwim Campus Ethnobotany Program. Much of Sveta's work as a scholar and educator is done in collaboration with her main teammate Igor Pasternak. Read Full Bio

Igor Pasternak

Igor is a diversely practicing scholar and artist, whose research on foraging, farming, and aesthetics has been supported through multiple awards from the National Science Foundation. Fungi and their use in art, food, spirituality, and medicine has been one of the main directions of Igor's research over the past twenty-five years. The rich offering of courses that Igor teaches at the University Alaska Fairbanks are Ethnomycology, Indigenous Art and Culture, Inuit Art, and studio art. As an artist, he has co-created numerous multimedia and multisensory exhibitions in collaboration with culture bearers in communities around Alaska and his main teammate Sveta Yamin-Pasternak. Read Full Bio

Chelsea Phegley

Originally from Nikiski, Alaska, Chelsea now resides in Oregon. Following her involvement in the campaign for legal access, she emerged as one of the pioneering licensed psilocybin facilitators in the state. With a background in cultural anthropology and a decade of experience in intensive care and rapid response nursing, Chelsea integrates somatic tools to provide trauma-informed care through her business, Safe Passage Supportive Care, in partnership with Omnia Group Ashland. Chelsea is deeply committed to collaboration and holds a profound respect for existing wisdom traditions within the growth process.

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Michael Demolina

Dr. Michael DeMolina, brings an ​integrative approach to his practice at ​Wisdom Traditions. His background spans ​East & West, as Past President of the ​National Qigong Association to a masters ​in Adult Education and a doctorate in ​Archetypal Studies & DreamWork. Most ​recently he received a Certificate in ​Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from CIIS, ​and Lykos Therapeutics. He is a Master ​Trainer of Energy Psychology, and an ​Owner of the Society of NLP, providing ​Certifications in Trauma-Sensitive ​approaches to healing the Body & Mind. ​He has certified Life Coaches throughout ​the Americas and is an initiated Paqo in the ​Womanlipa healing lineage of Peru.

Kevin Matthews

Kevin Matthews led the 2019 campaign that made Denver the first city in the United States to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms and catalyzed a national plant medicine reform movement. In 2022 he was the co-chief proponent of the historic Natural Medicine Health Act, making Colorado the only state to fully decriminalize the personal and ceremonial use of plant medicine. He’s currently a speaker, advisor, and trainer and resides in Colorado with his family.

Peter Hendricks

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Peter Hendricks, PhD, is Professor and ​Director of Research in the Department of ​Health Behavior, School of Public Health, ​at the University of Alabama at ​Birmingham. He has been an active ​researcher in the psychedelic field since ​2014, publishing population studies ​suggesting psychedelics may be effective ​in preventing and treating substance use, ​criminal recidivism, and psychological ​distress, among other outcomes, as well as ​a number of systemic reviews and ​theoretical pieces. Read Full Bio

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Jason Harmon

Dr. Jason J. Harmon, ND FABNO, is a Naturopathic Doctor (ND), naturopathic oncologist, a leading researcher in infectious disease, and an experienced practitioner in support of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Dr. Harmon has spent considerable time studying plant medicines in Peru, Costa Rica, and elsewhere, cementing his understanding and commitment to furthering the advancement of psychedelic therapies for humanity. He is the director of integrative medical services for Aurora Integrated Oncology Foundation and the president of Avante Medical Center, LLC, in Anchorage, Alaska. Read Full Bio

Haley Maria-Dourron

Haley Maria Dourron is a PhD candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her work focuses on understanding how psychedelics can induce lasting changes in people’s lives from a neurophenomenological perspective and how they compare to other extreme experiences, particularly psychosis. Her work uses both brain imaging and in-depth interviews to understand the overlap and differences between psychedelic-induced states and psychosis. She is also utilizing real-time fMRI neurofeedback in the post-acute effects of psilocybin to understand more about how flexibility within key brain networks might change after psilocybin-assisted therapy. In addition to this, she also proposed Self-Entropic Broadening Theory as a potential transdiagnostic mechanism of how psychedelics can facilitate enduring change and also compare to psychosis.

Diego Ugalde

Diego Ugalde brings expertise in conscious leadership forged from leading special operations units and integrating elevated consciousness through meditation and psychedelics. As CEO of The Trident Approach, he mentors executives, athletes, veterans, and mental health clinicians toward conscious leadership and elite team performance. Diego's military background includes three combat deployments to Iraq, one advanced special operations deployment to the South Pacific, and over 250 highly classified clandestine operations. Diego's storytelling and keynote speeches delve into his unconventional leadership philosophy and personal healing journey showcased in his book, "Leading From the Deep: A Navy SEAL's Psychedelic Approach to Conscious Leadership."

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Markian Babij

Dr. Markian Babij is a naturopathic physician who obtained his medical degree from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in Arizona. With a background in medical research focused on natural agents and a comprehensive understanding of conventional oncology care practices, Dr. Babij approaches medicine as both an art and a science. He specializes in naturopathic oncology and functional medicine, aiming to optimize the cellular environment through lifestyle modifications and natural agents. Dr. Babij is committed to patient-centered care, partnering with his patients to develop individualized treatment plans that prioritize accountability and informed decision-making for optimized health outcomes. Additionally, he has completed a residency at a local primary care office and a fellowship with the Board of Naturopathic Oncology.

Osiris García Cerqueda

Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is an ​Indigenous Mazatec historian and ​sociologist from Huautla de Jiménez, ​Oaxaca, Mexico. From a very young age, he ​has dedicated himself to the study of the ​history of his community and the practice ​of the ancestral ritual with psilocybin ​mushrooms, of which Maria Sabina was ​renowned. In recent years, reciprocity and ​restorative justice are the basis of his work ​of conducting a needs assessment in his ​community and developing activities to ​strengthen the Mazatec bioculture. He is ​the author of the book Huautla tierra de ​magia, de hongos y hippies [Huautla land ​of magic, mushrooms, and hippies] (2014) ​and the independent magazine, Mirador ​Mazateco (2010–2015). Osiris seeks to raise ​awareness about the impact of the Global ​North on the Mazatec people in this new ​wave of the psychedelic renaissance. He is ​Program Coordinator of Chacruna’s ​Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the ​Americas (IRI).

Jason Brandeis

Jason Brandeis is Senior Counsel at the Anchorage law firm Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot. He has extensive experience with drug law and policy in Alaska. His current practice involves advising businesses and government entities on regulated substances, and he recently gave a presentation on attorney ethics and psychedelics to the Alaska Bar Association. Jason was formerly a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage where his research and publications focused on marijuana legalization. Read Full Bio

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