Carrying Sheri's legacy forward

Mariah has been sitting with mushrooms and other plant medicines for over a decade. She holds reverence for the journey, deep trust in the client's inner healing intelligence, and a peaceful presence for others in the room. Her approach is client-centered. What is most important to her is that the client feels like they are being supported in a way that feels authentic to them.

Mariah graduated with an interdisciplinary studies degree from the University of Hawaii in Community-Based Healthcare. She was lucky to study relevant coursework such as Advanced Ethnobotany, Mycology, and Psychoactive Drug Plants. She is data/research informed and also draws from her experience in ceremonial settings that she participated in while in Peru and Hawaii.

Mariah is also a mother who will bring nurturing care to your journey. She gives consideration to many aspects of safety (physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual) to support overall wellbeing. Mariah warmly embraces people from all walks of life, welcoming all into a space of acceptance. She is honored to co-create a space with clients so they may comfortably navigate the depths of their consciousness.

MEgan believes healing isn't a destination, it's a homecoming you keep choosing. She is the founder of Bodywise and creator of the BE ME Framework, a somatic roadmap to your authentic self. Weaving 36 years of experience in physical therapy, somatic psychology (Hakomi, IFS, RCS), and TRE® (Trauma Release Exercise), she brings a steady, attuned presence to facilitation, and a body-mind approach to preparation and integration. Her work empowers clients to tap their body's innate wisdom, cultivate the felt sense of safety to open to the medicine, the internal resource to meet what arises, and the embodied grounding to carry it into real, lived change.

David Kahl is an executive coach, Oregon-licensed psilocybin facilitator, entrepreneur, and retreat leader. Before moving into this work, he spent more than two decades building businesses, including founding Fully, a company that grew from a startup into one of the largest digital furniture brands in the world before being acquired by Herman Miller in 2019.

Today, David works with leaders and individuals from a wide range of backgrounds through coaching, facilitation, and retreat experiences. His style is warm, grounded, and direct. He is less interested in offering answers than in creating the conditions where people can discover their own.

As a gay man, David knows firsthand that many LGBTQ+ people have spent parts of their lives learning how to adapt, fit in, stay safe, or manage the expectations of others. While those experiences can build resilience and strength, they can also leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves or from one another. Because of that, he cares deeply about creating spaces where people can show up more fully as they are.

For David, one of the most meaningful aspects of retreat work is the opportunity to heal and grow in community. While each participant brings their own story, there is something powerful about gathering with others who understand, at least in part, what it means to move through the world as LGBTQ+ people. His hope is that participants leave feeling more connected: to themselves, to one another, and to what matters most in their lives.

Wendy Cliff is an Interfaith Chaplain who's served in hospitals, retirement communities, a state prison, hospice, and trained & supported mentors in the foster care system. She holds a Certificate in Trauma and Spiritual Care that guides her work serving people who live with the impacts of various personal, collective, and environmental traumas. She's a graduate of Seminary of the Wild's two-year program where she immersed herself in environmentally based spirituality and practices. Her Master of Divinity and identity as an Episcopal priest are not enacted in traditional church settings, but are rather related to her love of how story, ritual, and tangible things can bring us closer to mystery and meaning. Serving on the board of an interfaith council in the Bay Area was one of the favorite roles she's ever had. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley's Center for the Science of Psychedelics facilitator training program, she's currently doing group and individual eco-spiritual direction sessions with people wanting to incorporate practices with the natural world in their spiritual journeys.

Oscar Aleman is a first-generation Guatemalan American, Oregon-licensed psilocybin facilitator, certified personal trainer, and educator based in the Portland area. His work is guided by a deep interest in human growth, healing, and the connection between mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

Oscar completed his facilitator training through InnerTrek, one of Oregon's pioneering state-approved psilocybin training programs. Drawing from backgrounds in fitness coaching, education, and psychedelic facilitation, he brings a grounded, compassionate, and participant-centered approach to his work.

As the son of Guatemalan immigrants, Oscar values the importance of community, resilience, and increased accessibility. He is passionate about creating spaces where people feel safe to explore meaningful experiences, reconnect with themselves, and integrate insights into lasting positive change.

Danilo Escobar is an Oregon state-licensed psilocybin facilitator, educator, healthcare administrator, and musician. For more than a decade he has worked across the healthcare system, spanning psychiatry, behavioral health, mental health, and holistic medicine.

He offers legally regulated psilocybin facilitation for individuals, couples, and groups, along with microdosing support, ceremony, retreats, and workshops. His practice is grounded in a trauma-informed, culturally rich, and person-centered approach, creating safe and supportive containers for healing, self-discovery, and growth.

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Full bio coming soon.

Tal Sharabi is a Licensed Professional Counselor (Oregon and Colorado) and one of the first cohort of state-licensed psilocybin facilitators in the country, she went on to teach the first class of government-licensed facilitators in the United States.

Through her practice, Interbeing Psychotherapy, she weaves together somatic, mindfulness-based, and trauma-attuned approaches, holding space at the pace each person's nervous system needs. A graduate of CIIS's Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies program and trained in MDMA-assisted therapy through MAPS and in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Tal brings more than two decades of mindfulness practice and a deep reverence for community, the earth, and the interconnection of all beings.

She was a featured speaker at TEDxPortland 2025 and serves as a lead educator at InnerTrek.

Seth Mehr, M.D., is a state-licensed psilocybin facilitator and the founder of Cascade Psychedelic Medicine. Board-certified in Emergency Medicine, he spent two decades as an emergency physician, with deep experience in medical and psychiatric emergencies and the safe administration of medicine, before dedicating himself to psychedelic care.

He served as the Health & Safety Director for InnerTrek's psilocybin service center and is a study physician on a clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for social anxiety. Seth came to this work after traditional treatments failed a member of his own family, and he brings particular attention to individualized medical safety, preparation, and care.

Lisa Snyder is a state-licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon (and a natural-medicine facilitator in Colorado) and the founder of Liberadiate, offering trauma-informed psilocybin journeys and integration support.

A graduate of InnerTrek, the nation's first state-approved facilitator school, Lisa brings more than eighteen years of community building and healing advocacy to her work. Her path into this field began in her twenties after losing both parents to cancer, an experience that shaped her devotion to helping others find meaning in life's hardest moments.

She specializes in supporting people navigating grief, burnout, self-doubt, and life transitions, and works especially with LGBTQ+ adults, women, creatives, entrepreneurs, and neurodivergent individuals exploring authenticity and belonging. Her work is rooted in compassion, curiosity, and the courage to turn inward.

Tom co-founded the Sheri Eckert Foundation and, with Sheri, set in motion the law that made it possible. A seasoned psychotherapist, he and Sheri built the Innerwork counseling practice and a Better Man program addressing intimate-partner and family violence, before turning their shared fascination with consciousness toward psychedelics.

Together they conceived and led Oregon's Measure 109, with Tom as its chief architect, assembling the coalition and the roughly 165,000-signature campaign that, in 2020, helped reverse five decades of psilocybin prohibition. He served as the founding chair of Oregon's Governor-appointed Psilocybin Advisory Board during its pivotal first year, and is Founder and Executive Director of InnerTrek, the first state-licensed psilocybin facilitator school.

Tom continues to write, teach, and advocate for a thoughtful, therapeutic approach to psychedelics, and carries Sheri's vision forward on SEF's board.

David Bronner is Cosmic Engagement Officer (CEO) of Dr. Bronner's, the family soap company founded by his grandfather, which he has helped grow into one of the country's most committed activist businesses.

A longtime champion of drug-policy reform and psychedelic-assisted therapy, alongside regenerative organic agriculture, fair trade, and animal advocacy, David and Dr. Bronner's provided crucial support that helped carry Oregon's Measure 109 to victory. He brings that movement-building experience and conviction to SEF's founding board.

Nate co-founded the Sheri Eckert Foundation with Tom Eckert and serves as its Executive Director and a founding board member. A systems-change organizer behind Oregon's Measure 109 and the world's first legal psilocybin healthcare model, he guides the foundation's strategy, funds, and research, and originated the ORCHID study. His full biography appears with the team above.

Dr. Adie Rae (who publishes as Adie Wilson-Poe) is a neuroscientist whose research spans the benefits and risks of psychedelics and cannabis. An Assistant Scientist at Portland's Legacy Research Institute and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, she co-directs the Open Psychedelic Evaluation Nexus (OPEN).

OPEN is the team behind Oregon's first federally funded psilocybin study, a $3.3 million NIH-supported project measuring real-world outcomes across the state's psilocybin system of care. Her peer-reviewed work has appeared in leading journals, including Neuron, and she brings rigorous, real-world science to SEF's board.