Esenia Cassidy is a Graduate School Fellow at the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education at The Ohio State University. Esenia actively contributes to the CPDREʼs mission of exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, particularly in relation to questions of gender, attachment, trauma, aging, and end-of-life care. A PhD student in the College of Social Work (OSU), Esenia is a mental health academic and practitioner with a commitment to social justice and transtheoretical research. Beyond CPDRE/OSU, Esenia co-founded The Psychedelic Humanities Lab at The New School for Social Research with the goal of contributing to the interdisciplinary engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Esenia holds a Masterʼs degree in Psychology with a Concentration in Substance Use Counseling.