Meet the Team
Mike Margolies is a psychedelic community catalyst and conversation creator. He has started and contributed to a number of projects as an event and media producer, connector, and advisor.
Mike is the Founder of Psychedelic Seminars, an educational conversation series deepening awareness of the benefits, risks, and complexities of psychedelics.
Mike founded the Baltimore Psychedelic Society and has sparked and mentored similar groups around the world from San Francisco to DC to Portugal.
He is also Co-Founder of the CryptoPsychedelic Summit and former Co-Director of Psymposia.
Tessa Levine wears many hats across the worlds of anti-oppression political organizing, mental health, and psychedelic community building and access. She is a leadership team member and event producer with the Graduate Student Association for Psychedelic Studies while pursuing a degree in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is also a trainer, strategist, and campaigner supporting activists combatting white nationalism and fighting for immigration and criminal justice reform across the United States. She does not see these bodies of work as separate, and is excited to be supporting Mycelia as a producer and facilitator.
Ayize Jama-Everett holds three Master’s degrees: Divinity, Psychology, and in Fine Arts, Writing. He blends these degrees in all his work, often identifying as a guerilla theologian, a community-based therapist, and an afro-futurist in the same breath. He’s taught at the graduate, undergraduate, and high school levels for over twenty years in subjects as diverse as the history of substance use in the United States, the history of Sacred Plant medicines in the Maghreb, the religious roots of political violence from Ireland to the Middle east, educational arts pedagogy, and Afrofuturism. He’s the author of three novels and one graphic novel. His shorter works can be found in the LA Review of Books, The Believer, and Racebaitr. Ayize is an adjunct professor at Star King School for the ministry. He is a Board member of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, leading their initiative to look at the role of psychedelics in the mental health of People of color and poor people. He also serves on the Board of Psychedelics Today.
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