About Me
Strategist, ethicist, and field builder working at the intersection of psychedelics, AI governance, and the broader transition to a regenerative economy.
I am often drawn to ideas before their full potential is obvious to others.
Most transformative ideas don't fail because they're wrong, they fail because they lack the relationships, strategy, and infrastructure needed to take root. My work sits at that intersection: helping founders, movements, and organizations translate bold visions into durable institutions through fundraising, partnership development, strategic counsel, and narrative design. I care as much about how something grows as whether it grows, because the foundations laid early determine what becomes possible later.
Over a decade in drug policy reform and advancing psychedelic therapies built that instinct early. I built credibility in rooms that weren't quite ready for those conversations. I sharpened my skills there, and now I bring them to the pro-human AI movement and the broader push toward a more humane, regenerative economy.
I’m entrepreneurial by nature. I've founded three organizations, served on two boards and as a trusted advisor to numerous companies and projects. I'm a regular presence in the TED, Summit, SOCAP, Nexus, Denizens, EarthKind, and Davos communities, less for the networking than for showing up wherever a field's next evolution is actually being worked out.
Business Insider named me one of the 16 Most Influential Women in Psychedelics. I have been a featured speaker, advisor, and contributor across numerous significant events in the psychedelic, AI governance, and new-economy spaces.
I'm also a certified death doula and permaculture designer, trainings that shape nearly else I do in terms of what it means to accompany, and metabolize, the many griefs of the times we live in, and what it means to build something that is truly emergent and durable.
I'm based between the San Francisco Bay Area and New York.
Chacruna Institute’s Psychedelic Liberty Summit: Ethical and Equitable Psychedelic Business with Liana Gillooly and Kat Conour
Public Speaking
Psychedelic Science 2024: Building Culture for Human Flourishing: A Conversation with Burning Man CEO Marian Goodall and Liana Gillooly of MAPS
TedX: Is There a Better Way to Die? by Liana Gillooly, certified Death Doula
Psychedelic Science 2023: An old new dream: rebuilding society in the light of mystical insight with Justin Rosenstein & Liana Gillooly
Women’s Visionary Congress 2023: Liana Gillooly on her origina story, MAPS/ MAPS PBC update, & where we go from here.
Psychedelic Science 2025: Ketamine Reality Check: Miracle, Mirage, or Misused? with Gita Vaid, Hamilton Morris, and Liana Gillooly