Meet our talented and experienced team

Adriana Kertzer is a Brazilian-American attorney, born and raised in São Paulo. Adriana has a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, a B.A. from Brown University in Judaic Studies and International Relations, and an M.A. from Parsons The New School for Design.

She began her legal career as a corporate associate on Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Latin American capital markets team. Adriana has since drawn on her love of contracts as an entrepreneur in the fields of contemporary culture, real estate and cannabis, as well as in her role as Senior Advisor to the Senior Deputy Chairman at the National Endowment for the Arts under President Obama.

Adriana is on the board of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation, a member of the Psychedelic Bar Association, New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Drugs and the Law, and New York State Bar Association. She is the author of the book Favelization: The Imaginary Brazil in Contemporary Film, Fashion and Design, originally published by the Cooper Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian Institution).

She is passionate about Jewish psychedelic culture, leads the interfaith working group Faith+Psychedelics, and founded JewWhoTokes, an Instagram account that explores relationships with cannabis and psychedelics in the Jewish community.

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Jules Evans is a philosopher, researcher and author of several books including Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations, The Art of Losing Control, and Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency.

Jules is the director of The Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project and the author the substack Ecstatic Integration, that explores psychedelic culture and helps to “improve Western culture’s ecstatic literacy.” He is also an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London.

He has spent his working life thinking and writing about ecstatic experiences, how people find them and make sense of them, when they can be good or bad for us and for our societies, and how western culture can improve its ecstatic literacy and develop better maps, guides and containers for journeys beyond the self.

Corine de Boer, MD, PhD (She/Her) is a Dutch pediatrician, specialized in clinical research. She received her MD degree from the Radboud University Nijmegen (RUN) in and her pediatric license at the Radboud University Medical Center, the academic teaching hospital affiliated with the RUN. Subsequently she completed her pediatric nephrology fellowship at the same facility and joined the faculty as a junior member. In 1998 she moved to Amsterdam where she joined the pediatric faculty at the OLVG, one of the largest inner-city hospitals in the country.

After her PhD defense in early 2020 she moved to the United States where she started her biopharmaceutical career at Chiron Corporation. Initially she worked on a large Phase-3 clinical trial in HIV before she joined the Vaccine Business Unit where she was responsible for the Meningococcal B program, a vaccine that now has been approved worldwide. After a sabbatical she and her husband moved to Port Townsend WA, where she started her consulting business Tulip Medical Consulting LLC in 2010. There she advices a variety of clients (biologics, small molecule/polymer therapeutics and vaccines) from discovery to launch including successful regulatory approvals and commercial support.

In 2017 she assisted MAPS Public Benefit Corporation with the required (and now FDA-

approved) Pediatric Plan and in early 2020 she joined the organization where she fulfilled the role of Chief Medical Officer. She was instrumental in building the Clinical Development, Medical Affairs and Pharmacovigilance departments and oversaw all clinical trials including the two completed Phase-3 clinical trials in preparation for an upcoming NDA.

Corine is a Medical Advisor for Not Putting On A Shirt, a non-profit organization advocating for optimal surgical outcomes for women who choose to go flat after mastectomy. She is passionate about the potential of psychedelic medicine and is a firm believer that the challenges and ethical considerations should be discussed as much as the opportunities.

Joseph Holcomb Adams is a bioethicist, educator, and journalist. He serves on the City of Berkeley Community Health Commission, the Ethics Working Group for the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, and the Advisory Board for the William G. Nash Foundation. He received his BAs in philosophy and religious studies from UC Davis, and his MA in bioethics from New York University.

He has interned as an ethics consultant for Dr. Phil Wolfson and the Ketamine Research Foundation, and has written for DoubleBlind Magazine. In the fall of 2021, he delivered a presentation about the clinical ethics of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy at the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Annual Conference. A few months later, he gave a talk titled “Navigating the Ethics of Psychedelic Guidance Inside and Outside of the Medical Establishment” for Psychedelic.Support’s 2022 Webinar Series.

Much of his current bioethics work is focused on identifying and analyzing the many distinct ethical challenges involved in designing, conducting, and interpreting psychedelic research. Joseph was born and raised in Berkeley, California, where he currently resides. He has spent many years working with children and teens in his community, first through City of Berkeley recreation/ outdoor programs (including Adventure Playground), then later as a teacher in the Oakland public schools (one year of high school biology, one year of middle school special education science).

In his spare time, he can often be found hiking in the hills and forests of the SF Bay Area, tending to his garden, or hanging out with his dog Panama Red. He has a passion for improvisational music (both as a musician and a listener), especially when it synthesizes a variety of genres and influences.

Juliana Mulligan is a psychotherapist who is formerly opioid dependent, formerly incarcerated, and has been a working member of the ibogaine treatment community for eleven years. In 2011, with the help of ibogaine treatment, Juliana left opioids behind and set off on a path to transform the way drug users and their treatment is approached. She has a Masters in Social Work from NYU and was the Psychedelic Program Coordinator at the Center for Optimal Living for three years. She also runs Inner Vision Ibogaine, which supports people in preparation and integration around ibogaine treatment and offers consulting services. She has worked in multiple ibogaine clinics, presented at a number of psychedelic and harm reduction conferences, and is the author of the Guide to Finding a Safe Ibogaine Clinic and co-author of Fireside’s Warning Signs When Selecting a Psychedelic Facilitator. She has taught about ibogaine at Charite University in Berlin and Southwestern College in New Mexico and has written for multiple publications about ibogaine, including Double Blind Magazine and Chacruna. Most recently, her focus on abuse and ethics in the ibogaine space has led to her survivor advocacy and client support work.

Aaron D. Cherniak is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and rabbi. As a clinician, he works in the Jerusalem Mental Health Center, where he co-directs a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills training program. He has conducted workshops for mental health professionals and pastoral training programs on research on spirituality/religion, its clinical implications, and spiritually-integrated care to advance evidence-based, culturally competent psychotherapy.

As a researcher, he is a Doctoral Researcher at Stockholm University and a Research Fellow at Reichman University. He conducts empirical research on a variety of questions related to psychedelics, as well as a variety of topics, including mental health/well-being, spirituality/religion, psychotherapy, and relationships. He directs the Jewish Psychedelic Narrative Project, an in-depth study of Jews’ experiences with psychedelics and how they integrate those experiences into their lives with the aim of developing comprehensive guidelines for culturally competent therapeutic support.

Robin Kurland, MFT is a holistic psychotherapist and psychedelic integration therapist specializing in trauma and addictions. Her career as a therapist started in 2006 working in several non profits and hospitals with a variety of populations including end of life and homelessness before settling into private practice in Sacramento, CA. Here, her main focus is working with survivors of sexual abuse, broad spectrum childhood neglect and trauma, and combat veterans while healing process and substance addictions that people use to cope. Robin offers IFS, Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Expressive Arts, Brainspotting, Trauma Informed Yoga, Shadow Work and Ketamine Assisted Therapy and incorporating a formula she has crafted over 15 years with an emphasis on spirituality and the arts. In addition she takes great joy in offering harm reduction services in psychedelic spaces.

Robin is also passionate about teaching which includes classes with Tam Integration: Working with Repressed Memories of Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic Spaces, and Psychedelics Today: Getting started as an Integration Therapist.

She currently mentors and supervises other clinicians on their journey of becoming psychedelic integration therapists. Robin is a dancer, artist, CIIS alumni, Zendo volunteer, lover of all animals, activist and a survivor of abuse and addiction.