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Meet the people who have presented at WVC events (alphabetical order) and view their WVC presentations and other material from their body of work that they wish to share. Each presenter is also listed as a topic in the Presenter Forum, where your responses and discussion are welcome.

Beginning with the 2019 Congress, the Women’s Visionary Council is making the archives available to all.

Tania Abdul

Tania is developing a nonprofit working for racial, environmental and climate justice by leveraging media that features community activism and performing arts, with interactive web technology. She's intrigued with community organization. (see more)

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Ismail Lourido Ali

As Policy & Advocacy Counsel for MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), Ismail supports strategies to create legal access to psychedelic substances in medical, sacramental, and personal contexts. (see more)

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Dr. Raquel Bennett

Dr. Bennett is the founder of KRIYA Institute and the organizer of KRIYA Conference, an annual international event devoted to understanding the uses of ketamine in psychiatry and psychotherapy. (see more)

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Maya Blow

Maya is a herbalist, classical homeopath, organic farmer and educator. She is the founder and director of Soul Flower Farm School of Earth Medicine for Herbal Studies and Permaculture Design. (see more)

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Scott Bodarky

Scott Bodarky is an independent researcher who has studied the history of opium for many years. He presented how opium developed and revealed some of the unsolved mysteries of one of the oldest plant medicines. (see more)

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Sophia Buggs

Sophia is reclaiming the sacred roots of farming as a fourth generation grower. Her mission is to Restore, Revamp and Revitalize her community with affordable, accessible local fresh foods and wellness products from her urban farm. (see more)

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Jennifer Dumpert

Jennifer is an author and consciousness-hacker who founded the Oneironauticum, an organization that explores dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. She teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming – surfing the edges of consciousness. (see more)

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Ifetayo Harvey

Ifetayo co-founded the People of Color Psychedelic Collective to highlight and engage the work of people of color in psychedelics. And, she plays an instrumental role in developing DPA's voice and perspective as its Marketing Coordinator. (see more)

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Sunshine Lencho

Sunshine is a graduate of Stanford Law School and cannabis law expert assisting companies, lawmakers and consumers in navigating the complex regulatory environment of medicinal and adult-use cannabis globally. (see more)

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Lanese Martin

As a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of The Hood Incubator, Lanese spearheads the organization's political strategy, including base-building, community organizing, and policy advocacy work. (see more)

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Madalyn McElwain

Madalyn is a lawyer and activist, drug policy reformer, and harm reductionist who serves as Deputy Director for DanceSafe. She advocates for the safer consumption of drugs and is dedicated to helping dismantle the racist War on Drugs. (see more)

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Eleonora Molnar

Eleonora, Executive Director of the Women’s Visionary Congress in Canada, is a psychotherapist, health care systems planner, and an independent researcher interested in public and primary health, drug policy reform, and consciousness research. (see more)

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Joy Moore

Joy has been a food activist for a long time and serves on many boards and councils. She teaches a garden based nutrition program and strives to provide access for low resource communities to be able to grow and eat organically. (see more)

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Annie Oak

Annie is the founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress and co-founder of the WV Council nonprofit. She is a science and technology journalist, a community organizer, and a developer of risk reduction and conflict resolution community protocols. (see more)

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Emma Sanchez

Chef Emma Dilemma focuses on feeding people with love, connecting traditional food techniques from around the world with the bounty of local harvests. She is passionate for access and education of local food resources for all communities. (see more)

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Danielle Schumacher

Danielle serves on the board of WVC. Her newest project, THC Staffing Group, is a boutique recruiting firm whose mission is to encourage diversity in the cannabis industry. (see more)

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Ann Shulgin

Ann has been a pioneer in the field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, co-author of seminal books, and an experimenter alongside her husband, chemist Sasha Shulgin. (see more)

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Christine Stenquist

Christine is a cancer survivor and medical cannabis advocate who organized diverse supporters in a conservative state to pass cannabis access legislation. (see more)

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Jane Straight

Jane, an ethnobotanist, has had a passionate relationship with sacred plants for decades and disseminates rare botanicals worldwide. (see more)

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Elise Szabo

Elise's primary areas of focus include youth advocacy and movement building, transformational justice and community-based conflict resolution, and drug harm reduction. She works for drug policy reform with SSDP. (see more)

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