The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. Professorship Fund

Alexandra Cohen

Alex is the president of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the nonprofit organization that she and her husband Steve co-founded in 2001. She is the inspiration behind the Foundation, directing its giving toward Lyme and tickborne disease research, mental health, underserved communities, children, the arts, and sustainability. Alex is also the president of the Amazin’ Mets Foundation, which she created in 2020 after she and her husband Steve purchased the New York Mets. Alex was named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy” by Inside Philanthropy, serves on the Chairman’s Council of the New York Restoration Project, and on NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Dean’s Council.

Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 800 million downloads.

Antonio Gracias

Antonio Gracias is President of The Gracias Family Foundation. He is also CEO of Valor Equity Partners, a trustee of The Aspen Institute, a member of the board of visitors of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a member of the board of visitors of the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to founding Valor, Antonio was the Founder and Managing Member of MG Capital where he acquired and acted as CEO for several manufacturing and technology related companies. Antonio holds a joint B.S. and M.S.F.S. (Honors Degree) in International Finance and Economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Antonio also holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. 

Blake Mycoskie

Blake Mycoskie is an entrepreneur and founder of TOMS, the original One for One® business model, which uses business to improve lives by helping people in need with every product purchased. This simple concept has grown into a global movement with TOMS impacting over 100 million lives to date. In fall 2011, Blake released his first book, Start Something That Matters which became a New York Times best-seller. It is Blake’s hope that Start Something That Matters inspires others to turn their passion and dreams into a reality. In 2022, Blake donated a portion of his net worth in support of the Psychedelic Philanthropy space, demonstrating his commitment to helping people.

Claudia Turnbull

Claudia Turnbull has a Master of Arts Degree in Consciousness Studies from Goddard College. She has worked at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research investigating the results of psilocybin experiences had by religious professionals and long term meditators. Claudia  is a founder of B.More, a nonprofit whose mission is to make a prescription medicine of psilocybin for the treatment of substance use disorders, and a founding member of Ceruvia, a corporation whose mission is research and development of neurotransformational medicines. She is a Board member of Heffter Research Institute and a member of the College of the Atlantic Board of Trustees.

Carey Turnbull

Carey Turnbull is a serial entrepreneur who founded several financial services companies that were sold to publicly traded Fortune 500 companies. Prior to beginning his business career he lectured about and taught meditation for 10 years. Mr. Turnbull was for 10 years a member of the Executive Committee of the Trustees at Goddard College. He is Chair of the advisory board of the NYU Center for Psychedelic Medicine, and assisted in the founding of Yale University’s psilocybin research program. He is a member of the Board and President of Heffter Research Institute and was a member of the founding Board of Usona Institute. He founded Ceruvia Lifesciences, B.More, and Freedom to Operate.

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Kathleen Griffiths Farley

Worked for JP Morgan, Citi, and IDS from 1965-1977 and 1984-1987. Non-profit involvement: President and Board member YWCA of Minneapolis, Board member Women Venture, Board member Planned Parenthood, Board member Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Co-chair capital campaigns for YWCA and Abbott Northwestern Hospital Piper Breast Center, President and Board member HOA Cordillera, Colorado.

Ryan Zurrer

Ryan is founder of Dialectic, a family office focused on alternative assets and Vine Ventures, a bio-science venture capital firm focused on neurotech, psychedelics and longevity. He has built a reputation for being a hands-on, value-add venture investor with a uniquely global purview. Previously, he led the Regenerative Financing Vine to support MAPS and he was CEO of a Brazilian renewables firm.

Christiana Musk

Christiana Musk is Chairwoman of Unreasonable Group and host of the BBC podcast Unreasonable Impact: Food Solutions. Her background spans environmental and social entrepreneurship, investment, nonprofit and foundation leadership. She co-founded Zaadz.com and Green Mountain Energy. Her philanthropic work with her husband Kimbal Musk aims to catalyze human and planetary flourishing. 

Waking Up

Waking Up, a meditation and philosophy app created by Sam Harris, gives a minimum of 10% of its profits each year to the most effective charities through the Waking Up Foundation—guided by the belief that, for humanity to flourish, we must work to improve life in the present, while addressing many sources of long-term risk.