ONLINE EVENT

Shalya, Amanda and Shelby come together to discuss hot topics within psychedelic journalism, moderated by Manoj Doss.

Shayla Love is a senior staff writer at VICE, writing features for Motherboard. She covers health, science, and psychology, and drugs. Her work has also appeared in Mosaic, Stat, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Gothamist, Harper’s Magazine, and more.

Amanda is a freelance multimedia journalist and author focusing on the intersections of business and culture in psychedelics and cannabis. Her first book, The Little Book of Cannabis was a Toronto Star bestseller and her second book on psychedelics is due for publication in the fall of 2022. Her byline can be seen in Forbes, The Dales Report, Leafly, Vice, and the New York Times, among others.

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.

Webinar Link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/91050819647