About Me

Alongside her work at MAPS, she served on the board of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She currently serves on the Lykos board advisory committee for impact and public benefit. She is a former advisor to the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative. Liana has offered consultation and advisory services pro bono to over a dozen organizations, companies, and funders in the psychedelic, humanitarian, and climate sector.

Liana has been a leading voice inside of the responsible integration of psychedelic practices into mainstream culture and business, as well as in the new economy movement as a featured speaker at SXSW,  SOCAP, TEDx, Summit Series, Future Frontiers, International Conference on Psychedelic Research, and many more. She has lectured MBA students at UC Berkeley and UCLA as well as Graduate School of Design students at Stanford. She was a core contributor to the creation of Psychedelic Science 23, the largest psychedelics conference in history. Prior to her work at MAPS, she helped build the prominent cannabis investor network and market research firm the Arcview Group.

Liana is a verdant student of the “New Economy” movement and believes that better business practice can drive social change. She has graduated from Lift Economy’s “Next Economy MBA”, John Fullerton’s “Regenerative Economics Course” and is an active member of the Denizens and Zebras Unite communities.

Liana Sananda Gillooly was named by Business Insider as one of the “16 Most Influential Women in Psychedelics”

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