Minority Trip Report Podcast

Jonathan Lu is the co-founder of VCENNA, a drug discovery company that creates mental wellness solutions from psychoactive plants used ceremonially in Ancestral Eastern traditions.  Jonathan is an engineer that has been studying 2000 year old Chinese texts in search of compounds, formulations, and rituals that have been lost to history. His team applies modern neurophysiological and computational tools to understand scientifically what our ancestors discovered millennia ago, and from which they developed the nootropic formulations for Magi Ancestral Supplements.

Sisi Li is the Senior Data Architect Lead at Porta Sophia, a non-profit online library for innovators and patent examiners to find relevant prior art in the field of psychedelics. She has a B.Sc in molecular and cellular biology and psychology from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin. Her doctoral research focused on the epigenetic and molecular mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety disorders. Sisi was previously a  Research Scientist at Gregor Diagnostics, a prostate cancer diagnostics startup. She co-founded the BioForward Woman in Biohealth (WiB) mentoring program and is on the WiB steering committee. Sisi is passionate about creating more connections among women in the biohealth community.

Ruby Singh is a multi award winning composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of  the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC.). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, memory, justice and fantasy. In 2022 he received the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in art and music. Singh believes in art’s ability to reimagine futures, to repurpose aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice.

Skander is an entrepreneur and digital nomad. He founded several ventures and projects including “Decentralize Impact”; the first Blockchain & Web3 Accelerator in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in partnership with IFC.

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Today's guest is Javid Jah. With a background in public art and an education in architecture, Javid Jah’s practice explores the traditional origins of sacred geometry.

Kowsheek Mahmood is a software engineer by trade, currently working at Adobe’s Substance 3D & Immersive Labs. Kowsheek joined Adobe through its acquisition of BRIO, where he was the Head of Technology for the web-based 3D presentation platform. Prior to this, Kowsheek served as CTO for several companies in the FinTech, transportation, and marketing automation spaces. In the ongoing pursuit of drive & fulfillment, personally & for his teams, Kowsheek explores various cultural, healing, meditative & ancient practices.

Sanjay Singhal is an Author and philanthropist best known for founding and selling Audiobooks.com. He is the author of the auto-biographical “Zero to Tesla”, and an active philanthropist with Nikean Foundation, founded in 2019 with the hopes of promoting psychedelic science and bringing to the forefront novel medicines for mental health disorders. Starting with psilocybin for eating disorders at Imperial University in London, the foundation is also funding treatment of PTSD, opiate addiction, depression, and end-of-life anxiety with a variety of molecules including psilocybin, MDMA, and 5-MEO-DMT. The foundation is now adding to its focus the education of the public on the benefits and proper use of psychedelics therapeutically with the launch of its psychedelic storytelling project, at www.nikean.org.

Today's guest is Manesh, a PhD researcher in Neuroscience at McGill University and lead or co-author on over a dozen scientific publications and book chapters on topics including psychedelics. He is also the Chief Research Officer at the psychedelic bioscience company EntheoTech Bioscience. In his free time Manesh runs a YouTube channel called The Psychedelic Scientist where he discusses the latest findings in psychedelic science in an easy to understand but nuanced form.

Today my guest is Aminah Vasco. Aminah is a plant medicine advocate, clinical herbalist, and founder of Amita Earth. 

Raad Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of Lawtrades as well as an angel investor, writer, and musician. In 2011, Raad started myfbcoverphoto, one of the first apps in the Facebook app store that grew to over 30 million hits per month, while attending law school.

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Mary Lin is the cofounder of Odin, a startup that builds powerful tools allowing people to invest together in anything. Long term, Odin’s vision is to drive systemic change, by creating better ways for people to connect, collaborate and create value.

Adam is a doctoral candidate in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry. He is an active member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) and has spent close to 5 years living and working in the Peruvian Amazon, facilitating workshops and retreats while conducting extensive fieldwork and qualitative research. He is currently the Director of Therapy and Integration for Rē Precision Health while maintaining a private practice with individual clients and online groups, offering a unique approach to mental and emotional health that blends insights from Psychology, Art, and Integrative Psychotherapy all rooted in a grounded relational framework.

Sherry Rais is the CEO of Enthea, a benefit plan administrator that provides health plan benefit for psychedelic healthcare. Sherry believes in living and working in alignment with purpose and is currently focused on alleviating human suffering. Before this, Sherry consulted for over 10 years with the UN and World Bank.

Today my guest is a wonderful human who goes by the persona, Chubbicorn80 on Twitter. Chubbicorn80 works at the intersection of mental health and Web3. 

Today's guest is Kim Haxton (Potowatomi) from the Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario. She takes her place among thought leaders in the area of decolonization, particularly as it applies to language, art, economics and gender.