Dr. Glauber Loures de Assis is a researcher of sacred plants and their traditions and a psychedelic dad. He has a Ph.D in sociology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of the book Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices (Synergetic Press). Glauber is the founder and president of Céu da Divina Estrela, a legal and tax-exempt Santo Daime ayahuasca church in Brazil. He has 15 years of experience with ayahuasca and other sacred plants and has led more than 500 ceremonies in Brazil, Europe and the United States, and has built this practice in dialogue with his local Brazilian ayahuasca community and with the blessings of Indigenous elders and activists in Brazil. He is also the co-founder of Jornadas de Kura, a plant medicine center in Brazil that promotes an alliance between the ceremonial use of sacred plants, public education on plant medicine and psychedelic science. He is an Indigenous rights activist and the Director of the Psychedelic Parenthood Community. He is father to 3 children and lives with his wife Jacqueline Rodrigues in Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.Glauber is driven by the desire to collectively co-create a plant medicine community in which all families are safe, welcome and integrated into the psychedelic field. A community in which diversity is embraced, children and elders are taken seriously, ancestral Indigenous traditions are honored, and where all kinds of families can coexist in solidarity.

Jacqueline Rodrigues is a Brazilian woman of color, psychedelic mother, and master’s degree holder in anthropology. For 24 years, Jacqueline has been a dedicated ayahuasca practitioner and co-founder of a tax-exempt ayahuasca church in Brazil. She also facilitates cacao and ayahuasca ceremonies, with a special focus on empowering women.Jacqueline’s research delves deep into Brazilian spirituality around ayahuasca, and for the past four years, she has been part of a support network for women in Brazil who use ayahuasca in ritual contexts. With a background in the performing arts, she’s also an actress, and a specialist in healthy eating and medicinal plants. Her work is rooted in reconnecting people with nature through music, art, and plant medicine, while building strong support networks for mothers and caregivers.As a mother of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, Jacqueline has channeled her experiences into supporting mothers and caregivers of neurodiverse and differently-abled children. She is passionate about creating ceremonial and educational spaces where psychedelic mothers can share their journeys.Jacqueline’s vision for PPC is to build a community that amplifies women’s voices, challenges “traditional” family roles, and fosters balanced, secure, and healthy relationships for all.

Adana Omágua Kambeba is a Brazilian Indigenous medical doctor, educator and activist. Adana Omágua Kambeba belongs to the Kambeba people, also known as the Omágua people, which means “People of the Waters”. These people are present in the Peruvian, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Brazilian Amazon. Adana comes from the state of Amazonas. She was born and raised between the two worlds (indigenous and non-indigenous) and has dedicated herself to studying the cultural identity of her people alongside Western academic studies. At the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) she was the first indigenous woman from the Amazon to graduate in medicine and became the first indigenous woman to sit on one of the CFM’s commissions, the Commission for the Integration of Border Doctors, which dealt with the relationship between Traditional Indigenous and biomedicine. She is a member of the Indigenous Movement and has been active in various organizations in Brazil and abroad as well as being socially active among her people in the Brazilian Amazon. As a doctor, she has worked in the field of Family and Community Medicine, childbirth, women’s health, maternity and newborn care, and also as a “Cannabis Prescriber” in Brazil and abroad.She is currently undergoing shamanic traditional training. When invited, she works as an educator, lecturer and film actress. At the PPC, Adana acts as Director of Community Health.

Emily Sinclair is an anthropologist of ayahuasca shamanism (PhD.(C) whose research focused on developing gender dynamics and cosmology in mestizo ayahuasca shamanism, Iquitos, Peru. Emily lived in the Iquitos region for eight years from 2014 – 2022 where she lived and worked with a local mestizo shaman, ran his retreat centre facilitating all retreats, and worked as a facilitator in another centre while conducting her anthropological research. She has worked actively to raise awareness of sexual abuse in ayahuasca settings and was a co-author of Chacruna Institute's safeguarding guidelines for participants and several articles and book chapters on this topic. Emily is now a single mother of three-year - old daughter Aeva - a ‘medicine baby’ who was conceived between a tobacco purge and tobacco dieta. Aeva received ayahuasca in the womb and participated in ceremony with her mother and father, an English ayahuasquero, during her first year of life. Through her journey with Aeva Emily has become interested in the intersection between motherhood and healing and passionate about making psychedelic community spaces including ceremonies and conferences open to children and families. As well as uniting ‘psychedelic parents’ across the globe to share knowledge and experience, and to celebrate their varied cultures, she envisages Psychedelic Parenthood Community as a catalyst for transforming cultural consciousness and education around psychedelics and parenthood.