Founder Zoe Wilder Public Relations & Liquid Culture Records

Named “Cannabis Empressaria” by Forbes, “35 Most Influential Women in Cannabis” by Entrepreneur Magazine and recipient of the 2024 Green Market Report Award for Public Relations, Zoe Wilder is a public relations professional specializing in lifestyle, culture and wellness. 

For over 20 years, Zoe has worked with hundreds of clients across a variety of industries to develop and execute inventive promotional content and campaigns that capture the attention of tastemakers and influencers from around the globe. Zoe holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the College of William & Mary and a Master of Social Work from Fordham University. 

Her team comprises over 50 years of forward thinking and purpose driven public relations expertise working with A-list celebrities, New York Times bestsellers, award winning film, television, radio, music, and consumer products, critically acclaimed podcasts, top brands and business leaders, and publishing oversight for several of the world’s leading peer-reviewed medical journals. 

A founding member of DoubleBlind Magazine, a media company covering the expansion of psychedelics around the globe, she also launched Liquid Culture, a revolutionary record label and artist collective redefining the intersection of music, visual art, and cultural innovation. Beyond that, she’s an ambassador for the Last Prisoner Project and Success Centers, advocating for justice and community empowerment; a strategic advisor at Psychedelics Design; and a member of the Association For Electronic Music.

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Writer, Editor, Practitioner & CEO of Enlightenment.Com

Jordan Gruber, JD, CEO of the active early online Enlightenment.Com community, has a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, and both a philosophy BA and public policy MA from Binghamton University.

After practicing law at Cooley Godward and focusing on IP law at NASA’s Moffett Field, and working at GNOSIS Magazine (a highly respected journal of the Western esoteric tradition), what emerged was “The Practical Wordsmith”—writer, ghostwriter, editor, practitioner, and sometimes coach of many transformational modalities.

As such, Jordan has co-created cutting-edge works on everything from forensic audio and financial services to health, wellness, psychology, and spirituality. His writing and editorial acumen, collaborative skills, and wide-ranging knowledge brings forth easy-to-read books woven with astute detail. Recent editorial contributions include a book on mindfulness for law students, a co-authored book on rebound exercise, a book on Jungian “shadow play,” and a guide to building a better physique.

Jordan has been close friends with Jim Fadiman since the early 1990s, when over time Jordan would regularly seek advice on his Enlightenment project. Jordan contributed to Jim’s 2011 book, The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide (2011), and in 2020 their co-authored book on healthy multiplicity—Your Symphony of Selves: Discover and Understand More of Who We Are (Inner Traditions)—debuted.

After that, Jordan and Jim wrote Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), which debuted on Feb 18, 2025, with a paperback coming in early 2026.

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Co-founder of Plant Media Project and Director of Media & Community Partnerships, Psychedelic Science 2025

Dedicated to maintaining lasting relationships with a focus on building community, Ms. Vensel is a hard working entrepreneur, events producer, creative marketing executive, and podcast host based in Pittsburgh, PA.

Ms. Vensel is the co-founder of Plant Media Project, a women-owned boutique agency specializing in plant medicine education and advocacy. PMP hosts the Vine: A Plant Media Project podcast discussing the changing landscape of cannabis and psychedelics. Learn more at PlantMediaProject.com.

In her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, she is the owner of Easy Street Promotions (EasyStreetPgh.com), an events and marketing company.

Ms. Vensel's philosophy in business is hard work, open communication, honesty, and an attention to detail. A strong communicator with a creative spirit that seeks to connect with professionals with similar ethics.

Professional services Include: Marketing, Event Production, Advertising, Publishing, Public Relations, Social Media, Digital Marketing, Writing (Creative + Copywriting), Sustainable Event Consultation, Event Coordination,, Event Marketing, Content Marketing, Content Planning Strategist, Promotions, Band/Art/Nonprofit Collaborations, Music Booking / Management, Digital Influencer Outreach, Business Development, Account Management, Video Direction, Commercial Direction, Health & Wellness, and Cannabis and Psychedelics Education + Advocacy.

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Creative Director for Hitachi Brand, Global Corporate Brand & Communications, Hitachi

With over 30 years of experience in the creative industries, Hector Pottie has worked across a global client base and multiple sectors. He currently serves as Creative Director for Hitachi Brand, Global Corporate Brand & Communications at Hitachi. His expertise is both broad and deep: in the past decade alone, he has led agency teams delivering global brand programs for Hitachi, Facebook, Hewlett Packard, Ubisoft, Google, and Samsung Galaxy, among others.

Hector works closely with strategic and development teams and is engaged in every aspect of running a contemporary, tier-one branding agency. His role is multi-layered: driving creative excellence, navigating complex stakeholder environments, collaborating with in-house client teams, partnering with executive and C-suite sponsors, and building alignment within global organizations that are often siloed and distributed.

He is particularly interested in what enables creative teams to thrive. His leadership centers on creating the conditions for great work to emerge, mentoring and supporting teams to achieve the best work of their careers.

Detail-driven and deeply committed to design as a positive force for change, Hector pairs clear vision with seasoned execution. In addition to brand and creative leadership, he has extensive experience commissioning and art directing work from photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, renderers, creative technologists, and other specialist collaborators.

Hector has worked with several leading global design and brand agencies, including Moving Brands, Method, Wolff Olins, Prophet, Marque Creative, Made Thought, Cartlidge Levene, and MetaDesign.

His work has been recognized with 7 D&AD Pencils, The Drum Awards, Art Directors Club of New York, Creative Review Annual, Fast Company Innovation Awards, and Scottish Design Awards. His personal work has been exhibited at London’s Design Museum.

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Design Director Airbnb & WhatsApp

Catherine Nygaard is a seasoned design leader with extensive experience across global digital products and brand experiences. She has held senior roles at major technology platforms — most recently as Director of Design at WhatsApp, and formerly at Airbnb, Spotify and Method — where she shaped meaningful products, services and user experiences.

In her work Catherine blends craft and strategy, designing with empathy, insight and a deep understanding of human-centred systems. Her career spans driving creative excellence, collaborating with executive teams, aligning multi-disciplinary stakeholders and mentoring design talent to deliver work of lasting impact.

Catherine is committed to using design as a force for positive change — whether that’s streamlining global brand experiences, enabling seamless digital interactions, or fostering environments where creative teams thrive. Her approach remains grounded in thoughtful innovation, attention to detail, and the belief that design should connect meaning with function.

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Founder of How Might We Design

Her work is driven by a passion to transform patient, provider, and caregiver experiences globally.

To achieve this, Tracy creates large-scale new business offerings and organizational transformation, from strategy and visioning, to design and implementation. Most recently, in the Fall of 2022, Tracy DeLuca, Elysa Fenenbock, and Dr. Gianni Glick co-taught Stanford d.school's first course in Psychedelic Medicine x Design.

For the previous two years, she helped lead the creation and launch of Ripple, a clinically-integrated behavior-change and condition management program in Singapore for people living with Type 2 diabetes.

Previously, as Design Lead for Sutter Health, one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the U.S., serving over 3.5 million patients, Tracy helped develop Sutter’s first Design & Innovation team, and led them through a multi-million dollar, system-wide new Primary Care of the Future offering. Implementation of TeraPractice, a more patient- and provider-centered approach to care, includes a new insurance and delivery model, and has so far scaled from pilot launch in April 2018 to 7 locations, with expansion plans for 40 more care teams. So far, these efforts have resulted in a consistent 28% reduction in total cost of care, and Tera earning “Sutter Health’s 2019 Quality Award,” for top measurement scores across the entire system.

Additionally, Tracy helped lead strategy and design for Sutter’s Mental Health Reimagined initiative, where her work focused on a human-centered deep dive into the Psychiatric Acute Care experience, and strategic development of an engagement platform to support youth 15-22, and their caregivers, as they transition out of formal care back into their everyday lives.

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Strategic Advisor, Altered-States Innovator, and Psychedelic Sherpa

Jalen is a seasoned senior leader and mentor who is passionate about creativity and its ability to catalyze and sustain meaningful change.

After a successful multi-decade tenure building and guiding design at the highly regarded LUNAR in San Francisco - receiving the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewett National Product Design Award in 2015, the same year it was acquired by the preeminent management consulting McKinsey & Co. – he became a Partner, and was responsible for ensuring the successful integration of design and for scaling the capability within McKinsey’s North American practice.

Over the course of his 30 years in industry, he embodied a unique marriage of Executive level Strategy and Storytelling, with deeply seasoned Product Development expertise.

At the start of 2020, a personal tragedy ‘ruptured’ life as Jalen (then Jeff) knew it. While he remained passionate about igniting the spirit of exploration to shape better futures for his clients, he was disenchanted by working for industry. He realized that meaningful impact comes when we first focus inwards and that truly authentic change must start there. He pivoted away from the only industry he’d ever known, and ventured into the new territory.

Since then, he has been on a journey to complement his 30 years of helping teams and companies innovate their way through change, by exploring the world of alter-states “inner” innovation. In 2024, he graduated from Psychedelics Today’s year long Vital training, and completed Internal Family Systems (IFS) level one equivalent training with the Moxie School.

In 2024, Jalen launched Altered, a project focused on weaving together insights, prinicples, and practices of altered-states and inner-expansion

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Founder of Sporesight

Jess Jorgensen is the Founder of Sporesight - a regenerative design consultancy and Social Enterprise working at the intersection of fungi, nature, culture and futures.

A foresight strategist with two decades leading global insight programmes, Jess has helped 100+ organisations - from global brands to grassroots initiatives - to embed cultural consciousness into strategic innovation. She now advises leaders on shaping regenerative futures by tuning into nature's intelligence, underpinned by an ongoing world research tour exploring fungi x futures.

She speaks internationally on 'how to think like fungi', and serves as Board Vice Chair for refugee-led nonprofit HODARI Foundation.

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Author & Psychedelic Scholar

Jahan Khamsehzadeh, PhD earned his doctorate in the Philosophy, Cosmology, Consciousness program at CIIS. His research was on psilocybin mushrooms and it was published at the book “The Psilocybin Connection: Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution of the Planet—An Integral Approach” by North Atlantic Books in 2022. He has undergone numerous trainings, including graduating from the Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy Comprehensive program and has been a part of eight psychedelic therapy training—ranging from the roles of student to teacher. He works as a minister with the Congregation of Sacred Practices where he mentors and supervisors other ministers. Psychedelics have been a passion of his for 25 years and has read over 85 books on the topic. He has worked with many organizations in the field, has held about 700 professional ceremonies, and been a guest on about a 100 podcasts.

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Brand Designer & Art Director

Carla creates influential and provocative brand experiences. Her work cultivates more meaningful connections between progressive brands and socially conscious audiences with high expectations.

Working as an independent freelance designer and art director, Carla works predominantly with beauty, fashion, food and lifestyle brands from all around the globe. With an extensive creative network, Carla forms specialist teams that cater to the individual needs of her clients, resulting in strong collaborations and more impactful results.

From conception to outcome, Carla uses finely-tuned processes in conceptual design and strategic thinking to execute on aesthetically striking visual identity systems, boutique packaging and thought-provoking advertising.

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Founding Partner & Registered Patent Attorney at Calyx Law

Graham Pechenik is a registered patent attorney and partner at Calyx Law LLP, where he specializes in intellectual-property strategy for the psychedelics, cannabis, and emerging biopharmaceutical sectors.

With a focus on the frontier of legal innovation, Graham helps early-stage ventures, established companies, and academic innovators navigate patent protection, regulatory frameworks, and commercialization pathways. He is widely recognized for his expertise in the complex intersection of patent law, public policy, and transformative plant- and molecule-based medicine.

Graham is also a frequent speaker, panelist and author on topics including ethical IP practices, de-risking psychedelic innovation, and balancing indigenous knowledge with global commercialization. His commentary has appeared in outlets such as Law360, Wired, and STAT News.

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Co-Founder of Kei

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Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Psychedelic Research and Neuropsychopharmacology

Dr Rayyan Zafar is a Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Psychedelic Research and the Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, where he leads research into the neuroscience of psychedelics, addiction and mental-health transformation.

With a foundation in neuropsychopharmacology and a strong commitment to bridging rigorous science and therapeutic potential, Dr Zafar has presented at major conferences and published on topics such as neuroplasticity, harm-reduction and psychedelic interventions.

He brings together academic insight and real-world relevance, exploring how psychedelic-assisted approaches may reshape treatment for addiction and promote deeper healing.

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Founder Portier & Creative / AI Strategist

Koen Oosterbroek is a creative AI strategist and the founder of Portier, a design-driven essentials brand inspired by ritual and everyday presence. He has held strategic roles at Nike, VICE Media, and Ahold Delhaize, working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and cultural innovation. Koen collaborates with leaders and teams to navigate emerging digital systems, helping them translate AI and media shifts into thoughtful, measurable action.

He is also the winner of the 2025 Psychedelics Design Award in the Products & Services category for his work with Portier, recognized for its sensory sensitivity and wellbeing-focused design approach.

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Founder of Wavepaths

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Artist, A&R at Liquid Culture, Founding team member of DoubleBlind Magazine

Nutritious is an artist, creative visionary, and cultural alchemist known for blending innovation and artistry across music, media, and community projects. A founding team member of DoubleBlind Magazine and former A&R at Liquid Culture, his work has been featured by The Whitney Museum of American Art, Rodarte, The New York Times, and more. He is also a contributing author to the New York Times bestseller Living Well with Montel Williams.

His 2022 album Blurs (Paper Recordings, UK)—featuring iconic cover art by John Van Hamersveld—reached Beatport’s Top 5 and led to performances at venues and events including the Whitney Museum (supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation), Ultra Music Festival, New York Fashion Week with Rodarte, Le Bain, Cielo, and Pete Tong’s Evolution XM. His music appears in films executive-produced by Danny Aiello, and his DJ sets have been commissioned by American Apparel, W Hotels, and SiriusXM.

A longtime community advocate, Nutritious has helped raise over $150,000 for the National Down Syndrome Society and supports organizations including The Bailey House, the MS Foundation, Success Centers, and the Last Prisoner Project. Trained at the Natural Gourmet Institute, he integrates holistic nutrition into his creative and consulting work with celebrities and cultural leaders. Known for dynamic, improvisational performances on three to four turntables, he bridges genres with a signature approach that blurs the line between live instrumentation and electronic music, making him a distinctive voice in contemporary electronic performance.

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