Emily "Alice" M Lippold Cheney

Emily Alice works with a variety of substances (e.g., psychedelics) and practices (e.g., erotic play) as pathways for engaging the unmeasurable. In currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, she seeks to bring her expertise and knowledge into conversation with practitioners and scholars across disciplines and traditions. She leads a Psychedelics Beyond Psychedelics reading group and works as an assistant for a psychedelic historian. Her research projects include an investigation of psychedelic sex workers in the Bay Area, supported by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, as well as an exploration of those same intersections of psychedelics and eroticism within the context of midwifery, childbirth, and mothering. Most importantly, she is the mother of a brilliant and delightful almost-three-year-old.