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Psychedelic Capitalism vs Sacred Commerce - Creating a Regenerative Renaissance
with Graham Pechenik, Alexander Beiner, Kat Conour, & Shelby Hartma
As psychedelics become increasingly more mainstream, it is essential that we explore the topics of psychedelic capitalism and sacred commerce. This panel will explore the intersection of psychedelics and capitalism as it pertains to creating safe, equitable, and culturally-relevant access to psychedelic-assisted healing.
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You'll HEAR FROM:
Graham Pechenik | Registered Patent Attorney and Founder, Calyx Law
Prior to founding Calyx Law in 2016, Graham gained over a decade of experience obtaining and defending some of the country's most valuable patents, representing numerous companies in the agricultural, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech, and technology industries.
Graham has worked on litigation teams challenging high-profile patents in court, including Monsanto's patents on GMO crops, Apple's on touchscreen devices, Microsoft's on FAT file systems, and Amgen's on recombinant EPO.
Graham also worked on several landmark patent cases both at trial and on appeal, including Ariad Pharmaceuticals v. Eli Lilly & Co. (involving the written description requirement for biotechnology patents, with 26 amicus briefs before the en banc panel); Alice v. CLS Bank (patent eligibility of computer-implemented business methods); and Wyeth v. Dudas (successfully challenging the USPTO's calculation of patent term adjustment, and resulting in significant extensions of patent life, especially for biotech and pharma patent holders).
Graham's pro bono experience includes nonprofit incorporation and asylum representation, and he was part of a team that represented the governments of several foreign nations in a tax case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
An Oakland, California native, and a longtime advocate of cannabis reform, Graham was involved in the campaign for Proposition 215 in 1996, and has experience in cultivation starting from 1997.
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ALEXANDER BEINER | Co-Founder, Rebel Wisdom
Alexander Beiner is a writer, podcaster and facilitator. He is one of the founders of Rebel Wisdom, and an executive director of Breaking Convention. His book 'The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of the world' will be published by Hay House in 2023.
KAT CONOUR | Founder & Principal, Auryn Project
As cofounder, strategic advisor, and funder to various psychedelic non-profits in the field of psychedelics, Kat Conour, LMFT, is a psychedelic-assisted therapist and organizational consultant doing her best to be in service of creating accessible, culturally-relevant pathways to psychedelic healing for all who can benefit.
Through her work as Founder & Principal at Auryn Project, Kat focuses on incubating projects committed to centering equity, integrity, and regenerative approaches in the scaling of delivery systems for psychedelic medicines. She served as producer for the timely piece We Will Call It Pala, a dystopian narrative illuminating a future where psychedelics intersect with "business as usual" and which touched the hearts of many.
She also co-founded North Star and assisted in the development of Chacruna's Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative streamlining giving to frontline indigenous groups. As a MAPS' MDMA-assisted therapy trainee and ketamine-assisted therapist, Kat's approach is also informed by nearly 15 studying with various traditions in the healing uses of plant medicines. She currently serves as chair of Sage Institute and on the advisory councils of Chacruna and Psychedelic Seminars.
SHELBY HARTMAN | Co-Founder, Double Blind Magazine
Shelby Hartman is Co-Founder and CEO of DoubleBlind, a media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. Her work has appeared in VICE, Playboy, Quartz, LA Weekly, the Huffington Post, Thrillist, and Rolling Stone, among others. Shelby worked in broadcast news production for CBS News, covering presidential elections, protests, natural disasters, and other breaking news. Spurred by a passion for print, she transitioned to magazine writing, working as an editor at Pasadena Magazine and receiving her Master’s Degree in long-form journalism from Columbia University in 2015. Since then, Shelby has worked as a columnist at LA Weekly and an editor at Herb, with extensive features on post-traumatic stress disorder in the veteran community, the cannabis industry, psychedelics and mysticism, and the psychedelic research boom. Shelby has spoken and written on topics like psychedelics in the media, the ethics of mainstreaming psychedelics, and others at SXSW, Horizons: Perspectives in Psychedelics, Harvard Law School, and more. In 2020, she was named by Forbes as a female leader in cannabis and psychedelics.
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