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Our Mission
To build community around psychedelics.
Our Goals
Educate the public about psychedelic history and culture, therapeutic and spiritual uses, and responsible use.
Advocate, promote, and conduct scientific research around psychedelics.
Help connect people with therapeutic support related to preparing and integrating psychedelic experiences.
Provide information to promote harm reduction related to set and setting, drug laws, and safe, responsible and legal uses.
Help community members engage with and cultivate their own relationship with psychedelics.
Our Policies
Do not engage in illegal activities during our events. This group is designed as a sober space to reduce harm/maximize benefits of those using psychedelics on their own accord.
Conduct yourselves with sincerity, openness, and respect with each other and while representing the Psychedelic Society of Minnesota.
Do not bring, buy, sell, trade, or arrive on any illegal substances, or discuss or recruit to underground ceremonies and/or facilitators.
Violations of these rules can result in being banned from future events.
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Our Board of Directors
Jessica Nielson, PhD - President
Jessica is a transplant from California since 2017, and is a neuroscientist and psychedelic researcher that has been exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics for over 10 years. She has led several psychedelic research studies at the University of Minnesota (UMN) aiming to understand how psychedelics like ayahuasca and psilocybin may help with post-traumatic stress and depression, mechanisms for how psilocybin changes the human brain, and survey studies about the unique perspectives of marginalized groups often excluded or not represented in psychedelic clinical trials. Jessica also is trained in the neurobiology of trauma and machine learning and has led federally funded projects and published extensively on spinal cord and brain injury, as well as computational psychiatry studies focused on PTSD, depression, and substance use disorders (former lab website). In addition to being the founder and President of the Psychedelic Society of Minnesota, she is also the Innovation Alchemist at Big Psych, co-founder of the DecriMN Coalition that recently advised Mayor Frey on the Executive Order to deprioritize entheogenic plants and fungi in Minneapolis, and was appointed by Governor Walz and elected to serve as Chairperson on the Psychedelic Medicine Task Force, and recently contracted to help write a legislative report for the MN Office of Addiction Recovery for the Task Force on Holistic and Effective Responses to Illicit Drug Use. Jessica recently transitioned out of a tenure-track role at UMN into an Adjunct role to focus more on passion projects and consulting work for the broader field of neurotrauma research, psychedelic science, and drug policy reform efforts. Jessica is also preparing for the LSAT and is hoping to go to law school someday after attending the first Harvard Psychedelic Bootcamp in 2024, and receiving a certification for the Zero-L course taught by Harvard Law School.
Christine Diindiisi McCleave, BS, MA, PhD(c) - Vice President
Christine is a scholar and an activist. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Nation and has been working in Indian Country at the national level for more than 10 years. Most recently, as the CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, she advocated for truth, justice, and healing for the ongoing trauma from the genocidal policy of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. Prior to that, she was the Communications Officer for the Indian Land Tenure Foundation advocating for #LandBack in the U.S. With a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies and a Master of Arts in Leadership, she conducted her master's thesis on Native American spiritual leadership and the intersectionality of Native spirituality and Christianity in the spectrum of Native spiritual practices today. Christine is currently a doctoral student pursuing her Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where her dissertation is focused on using traditional entheogenic plant medicines to heal Indigenous historical trauma. Her scholarship and advocacy continue to concentrate on the intersection of cultural, political, and spiritual agency for global Indigenous Rights and the neuroscience of healing historical trauma as a generational survivor of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools and genocidal, settler-colonial violence. She is dedicated to prioritizing Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in all sectors and communities, particularly decolonizing spaces in psychedelic research pertaining to Indigenous plant medicines.
Brook Martin, BFA - Board Member
Brook is an artist, photographer and boat builder. He is an explorer of natural places and interior spaces. He has long term involvement in several facets of underground communities, as well as involvement in western esoteric traditions.
Brook is interested in the use of psychedelics and entheogens for healing as well as deeper human transformation.
Brook holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.