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Strategist, Consultant

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Paula (she/they) is a movement strategist, community health worker, policy advocate and consultant conjuring transformation at the intersections of indigenous rights, racial, migrant, environmental justice and the healing arts. Paula is interested in the roles that plants, psychoactives, ceremony, ritual, music, dance, and collective experiences can play in building historical memory, advancing processes of conflict transformation, repair, and rematriation. They are currently working towards a Masters in Public Health at John Hopkins University, where they focus on the epidemiology of violence and policy design for violence prevention. Paula advocates for the rights of indigenous, immigrant, adolescents, and survivors within the psychedelic research & therapy ecosystem, and broader drug policy movement. Born and raised in the working class suburbs of Los Angeles, Paula descends from Mayan, Ashkenazi Jewish and Iberian ancestries.