Meet the Team

  • Jennifer Dailey-Provost

    Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost

    Chief Sponsor (Democrat)

    Utah State Representative, District 22, Salt Lake County, House Minority Whip, Utah House of Representatives, Utah State Legislature; Began Legislative Service on January 1, 2019

  • Kirk Cullimore

    Sen. Kirk A. Cullimore

    Co-Sponsor (Republican)

    Utah State Senator, District 19, Salt Lake County, House Majority Leader, Utah Senate, Utah State Legislature; Began Legislative Service on January 1, 2019

  • Anya Ragnhildstveit

    Anya Ragnhildstveit

    Lead Scientific Policy Advisor

    Chief Executive Officer, Center for Psychedelic Research, Pneuma Science; Clinical Research Scientist, Cambridge Psychedelic Research Group, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge

  • Miriam Kaiyo

    Miriam Grace Kaiyo, Ph.D.

    Lead Scientific Policy Liaison

    Chief Impact Officer, Center for Psychedelic Research, Pneuma Science; Adjunct Instructor in Human Development and Social Policy, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, The University of Utah  

  • Benjiman Lewis

    Benjiman R. Lewis, M.D.

    Clinical Policy Advisor

    Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director of the University of Utah Psychedelic Science Initiative, Director of the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, The University of Utah School of Medicine

  • Kevin Murnane

    Kevin S. Murnane, Ph.D.

    Scientific Policy Advisor

    Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience, Director of Basic Science Research for Louisiana Addiction Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport

  • Lynnette Averill, Ph.D.

    Senior Scientific Policy Advisor

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Co-Director of the Ethical Legal Implications of Psychedelics in Society Program, Baylor College of Medicine; Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Veterans Mental Health Leadership Coalition 

  • Aspen Warden

    Scientific Policy Ambassador

    ACCESS Scholar, College of Science Ambassador, and H.B.S. Candidate in in Applied Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, Research Assistant in Topological Data Analysis, Crocker Science Center, College of Science, The University of Utah