Board of Directors
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Founder and President
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and his Master’s thesis on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana vs.…
Vicky Dulai, Board Chair
Independent Voting Member Vicky Dulai is an independent psychedelic philanthropic consultant. She advises philanthropists and foundations about emerging opportunities in psychedelic research, treatment, and therapist training. Vicky is the founder of Compassion For Addiction, a non-profit dedicated to a trauma informed and psychedelic medicine approach to treating addiction. She was the first female board member…
John Gilmore, Vice Chair of the Board
Independent Voting Member John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, early free software and open source author, and co-created Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Usenet’s “alt” newsgroups. He’s spent 40 years doing programming, hardware and software design, management, advocacy, philosophy, philanthropy, and investment. Along…
Staff
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Founder and President
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and his Master’s thesis on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana vs.…
Betty Aldworth, Co-Executive Director
Betty Aldworth serves as the Co-Executive Director of MAPS, working with colleagues and allies across the drug policy reform movement toward legal and equitable access to psychedelics for healing and personal growth in a post-prohibition context. She most recently served in the role of Director of Communications & Education at MAPS. With the Communications team,…
Ismail L. Ali, J.D., Co-Executive Director
Ismail Lourido Ali, JD serves as MAPS Co-Executive Director. Ismail has been actively participating in the drug policy reform movement for over a decade, informed by half a lifetime of diverse personal experience with psychedelics and other substances. Previously as the Director of Policy & Advocacy at MAPS, Ismail supported the design, building, and implementation…