David B. Yaden, PhD, is the Roland R. Griffiths, PhD, Professor in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-being at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He studies the subjective and behavioral effects of psychedelics as well as related ethical issues. He is the author of over 50 academic articles and the author of a new book called The Varieties of Spiritual Experiences: Twenty-First Century Research and Perspectives with Oxford University Press. His scientific and scholarly work has been covered by mainstream media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and NPR.

Josh Hardman is Founder and Editor of Psychedelic Alpha, a website, newsletter and boutique consultancy firm where he spends most of his time exploring the curious intersection of psychedelics and business. There, he shares weekly updates on the space and works with a group of subject-matter experts to maintain a number of resources and datasets to help individuals and organizations make sense of this burgeoning field.

Shayla Love is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. Before that she was a senior staff writer at Vice News for five years where she wrote about health, science, psychology, and psychedelics. She has a master’s degree in science journalism from Columbia University, and her work has appeared in Mosaic, STAT, Undark, The Washington Post, the Kenyon Review, the Atlantic, Vice, Harper’s Magazine, Gothamist, and others. Shayla is a 2022 recipient of The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship.

Hosted by Jane C. Hu, an award-winning journalist. Hu is a contributing editor at High Country News and writes The Microdose, a newsletter about psychedelics edited by Malia Wollan and Michael Pollan. Her reporting has appeared in publications like Undark, Slate, The Guardian, High Country News, WIRED, the Washington Post, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Science, and others. Before becoming a journalist, she received a PhD in developmental psychology.