Brian Pace, PhD, is a scholar and educator who examines how power, ideology, and institutions shape the modern psychedelic movement. Trained as an evolutionary ecologist, he lectures at The Ohio State University in Psychedelic Studies and topics within the Department of Plant Pathology’s Mycology Minor. A US Borlaug Global Food Security Fellowship recipient, his fieldwork has taken him to Southern Mexico, the Midwestern Tallgrass Prairie, and the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Brian is also a director at Psymposia, a nonprofit research watchdog. He is one of four principal authors of Psymposia’s recent major investigative report, The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry. His research situates psychedelics in the context of their ethnoecology, history, and political economy.