Minority Trip Report

Today my guest is Nikhita Singhal who is a fourth year psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto. Nikhita completed her undergraduate degree and medical training at McMaster University. She is passionate about engaging in advocacy work, empowering individuals with lived experience, and contributing to medical education. Nikhita hopes to combine her clinical interests in addictions, eating disorders, and psychedelic-assisted therapy to work with underserved and marginalized youth.You can follow Nikhita at:https://twitter.com/nikhita_singhalSend us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

Today my guest is Dr. Ishrat Husain who is Head of the Clinical Trials Unit and Lead of the Mood Disorders Service at Center for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Treatment Innovation in Mood Disorders. Dr. Husain's research program focusses on advancing the understanding and treatment of mood disorders across populations through biomarker-driven clinical trials of emerging pharmacological and psychosocial interventions including psychedelic therapies.You can follow Dr. Ishrat Husain at:https://twitter.com/IshratHusain_Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

Today my guest is Heesoo Cho who is the co-founder of SABI Mind, a psychedelic-assisted therapy clinic group based in Calgary AB. In seeing the devastating impact of serious mental health challenges on friends and family, Heesoo put his energy and expertise towards opening up safe access to psychedelic treatment, with a focus on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. As Managing Director of SABI Mind, Heesoo is responsible for ensuring that SABI clinics provide best-in-class patient care in the treatment of chronic mental health and pain.You can follow Heesoo and Sabi Mind at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/heesoo-chttps://www.sabimind.comSend us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

This is the last episode of season 1 and includes a short reflection of the journey so far. Thank you, the listener, for hopping and staying with us the last 8 months. We're very excited for Season 2. 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. You can follow Jon Lu at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanalu and https://twitter.com/AncestralMagi.Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

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.You can follow Kowsheek at https://twitter.com/kowsheek.Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

Today my guest is Mary Lin. Mary 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.You can follow Mary at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-yizhi-lin.Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

Today my guest is Sisi Li, 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.Connect with Sisi Li at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sisiliphd.Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

Today my guest is Sanjay Singhal who 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.You can learn more about the Psychedelic Storytelling Project at https://nikean.org and follow Sanjay at https://www.instagram.com/ssinghal.Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

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. You can learn more about Adam's work on his satire page: https://www.instagram.com/healingfromhealing Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic

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.You can find learn more about Ruby Singh at www.rubysingh.ca and find him at https://www.instagram.com/rubysingh_. Send us a textSupport the showFollow MTR: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritytrip Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@minoritytripreport Subscribe to Quarterly Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/missionclub-mosaic