Bioneers Presenters: Ecological Medicine

Robyn Benson

Dr. Robyn Benson is the founder of New Mexico's Santa Fe Soul Health and Healing Center, offering a comprehensive range of complementary health-care services. She has 16 years of professional experience specializing in pain management, women'...

Charlotte Brody

Charlotte Brody is the executive director of Commonweal, a Bolinas, California based organization that works on health and environmental issues. She was a founder and executive director of the Health Care Without Harm campaign, the organizing directo...

Rick Doblin

Rick Doblin is the founder (in 1986) and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a non-profit psychedelic and medical marijuana pharmaceutical company. His dissertation in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy ...

Joseph Guth

Joseph H. Guth, J.D., Ph.D, is the legal director of the Science & Environmental Health Network. He has a J.D. from New York University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. Joe's principal legal work is to advocate for t...

Joel Kreisberg

Dr. Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA, is the founder and executive director of the Teleosis Institute, an institution dedicated to reducing healthcare’s footprint while broadening its ecological vision. Joel is currently an adjunct professor at the School of...

Sage LaPena

Sage LaPena is a clinical medical herbalist, ethnobotanist, lecturer, teacher, and gardener specializing in both Native American and Western herbal traditions. She started her herbal education at age seven, working with local medicine people from her...

Michael Lipsett

Michael Lipsett, MD., one of the world’s leading experts on air pollution, currently serves as chief of the Exposure Assessment Section of the Environmental Health Investigations Branch of the state of California. This award-winning public servant ...

Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integrative Studies (CIIS), conducted studies of psychedelic drugs at Harvard in the 1960s and co-authored the classic work, The Psychedelic Experience. His...

Elise Miller

Elise Miller, M.Ed. is founder and executive director of the national Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH) based in Freeland, Washington. ICEH's mission is to foster collaborative initiatives that help minimize environmental f...

Valerie Mojeiko

Valerie Mojeiko has worked with MAPS–the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies-since 2000, facilitating research of the healing potentials of MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, Ibogaine and other psychedelic medicines. In her work leading MAPS...