As the co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics, it is my aim to organize high quality training and experientials that support you in discovering your own relationship to practicing in the psychedelic space with clarity, humility, and integrity. With a background in research and academia, I value the scientific evidence base and maintain a critical eye towards issues of history, power, and ethics as they relate to the evolving psychedelic landscape. I also value other ways of knowing and being, namely, our own inner guidance systems, our inner healing intelligence, and the divine mystery of all that is unseen and unknowable. I strive to bridge these worlds in our trainings and retreats so that psychedelic practitioners, as a collective, have the skills, frameworks, and opportunity to build truly transformational practices for our world.

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For more than a decade, I had been a researcher and educator in Higher Education with a tenured faculty position at a State University. In 2017, I co-founded a Colorado-based non-profit, The Nowak Society, with a mission to build and organize psychedelic communities - particularly professional communities - to give voice to the essential values and pressing issues of the psychedelic movement here in Colorado. For years now my colleagues and I have successfully run monthly Psychedelic Professionals Meet gatherings across Northern Colorado, fiscally sponsored a range of advocacy projects (for example, Right To Try advocacy for patients facing terminal illness and Jamaica Grief Retreats for grieving parents who have lost a child), and brought community together for education, dialogue, and celebration through special events like our 2022 Emergence: Psychedelic Education Festival. I have completed trainings with the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (which I am also a founding member of) and Usona Institute's Psychedelic Immersive Program.

I have also had the good fortune to contribute to psychedelic policy and research through advisory committees and community-partnered research. I served as a non-voting member of the Qualifications, Training, and Licensing Subcommittee for Colorado's Natural Medicine Advisory Board. Our community-partnered research team recently published a qualitative interview study designed to elevate the voices and practices of "underground" psilocybin practitioners in the ongoing scientific and public discussion regarding psychedelic reform.