Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 from 12:00-1:30pm PST

After many months of dreaming and planning, Fireside Project’s Affinity Integration Peer Support service is live! Callers to the Psychedelic Peer Support Line who are BIPOC, transgender, and/or military veterans now have choice to process past psychedelic experiences with a support-line volunteer sharing that aspect of their identity. Affinity Volunteers, after completion of their year of service on the line, receive access to resources like scholarships, paid internships, and grants to propel themselves into the psychedelic eco-system.
 
Join us in this forum with Hanifa Nayo Washington, who is a social entrepreneur, cultural producer, and healing justice practitioner with 20 years in nonprofit leadership, and Joshua White, who is a lawyer, risk-reduction activist, aspiring psychedelic researcher, and founder of Fireside Project. Come learn about Fireside Project’s Equity Initiative, how it works, and visions for the ongoing development of this offering.

Hanifa Nayo is a social entrepreneur, cultural producer, and healing justice practitioner with 20 years in nonprofit leadership. Hanifa works at the intersection of mindfulness, place making, and social justice to create organizations, gatherings, spaces, and experiences rooted in the values of beloved community. As the co-founder and the Chief of Strategy for Fireside Project, Hanifa supports the design, facilitation, and communication of Fireside Project’s mission, vision, initiatives, and strategic partnerships. Hanifa is also the Co-founder of One Village Healing. She serves as an advisor for Reconsider, and East Forest’s latest project Journey Space. In 2022 Hanifa was appointed as a Founding Member of the Global Wellness Institute Psychedelics & Healing Initiative.

Joshua White is a lawyer, risk-reduction activist, and aspiring psychedelic researcher who believes in the power of peer support and the role of support lines as foundational components of an equitable mental-health ecosystem. Prior to founding Fireside Project, Joshua volunteered for many years as a counselor on Safe & Sound’s TALK Line and a psychedelic peer support provider for the Zendo Project. Before devoting his life to the psychedelic movement, Joshua spent more than a decade as a Deputy City Attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where he focused on suing businesses exploiting vulnerable communities, serving as general counsel to City departments, and co-teaching a nationally renowned clinic at Yale Law School. He also clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced civil litigation at Conrad | Metlitzky | Kane.

This talk will be recorded and immediately available for rewatch for all attendees.

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