Hanifa Washington
Board Member
Hanifa Nayo Washington (she/her) is a healing justice practitioner, award-winning artivist, communications strategist, and certified psychedelic facilitator whose work sits at the intersection of mindfulness, collective care, and transformational systems change, grounded in the values of beloved community.
With more than 30 years of experience across nonprofit leadership, holistic wellness and well-being, and community-centered systems change, she currently serves as Co-Director of the Psychedelic Mental Health Access Alliance, where she focuses on building the body of evidence needed to support publicly fundable psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) care models, while cultivating a national alliance of partner organizations to carry this work forward across the country.
Hanifa is Co-Founding Team Emeritus of Fireside Project, where she helped launch the Psychedelic Peer Support Line in 2021, a nationally serving peer support service that has supported over 35,000 calls from people navigating psychedelic experiences. With a lively and adventurous spirit, she has participated in Burning Man and has volunteered as a Zendo Project volunteer. She brings to this work an ongoing compassionate inquiry: How do we learn to speak truth to ourselves first, so we can speak truth to one another?