Deborah Thorne is the founder, Co-owner, and Clinical Director of Medicina del Sol Integrative Healthcare in Las Cruces, NM. Also, CEO and Medical Director of Sol Medicine (Sol Tryp), a 501(c)(3) non-profit ensuring affordable and safe access to psychedelic medicines. She holds degrees and certifications in exercise science, manual therapy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, yoga, meditation, wellness coaching, and integrative psychiatry. She is licensed as a Board-Certified Physician Associate and Doctor of Medical Science. trained and certified in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and psilocybin-assisted therapy, currently completing a
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Practitioner Certification through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in Colorado. She is deeply rooted in First Nation healing traditions of her community in Manitoba, Canada. She honors the teachings and sacred songs and medicines that were passed on to her by the Elders and medicine people in the community. Guided by the ancestral voices of the past and present, she is dedicated to honoring the medicines in a reverent and respectful manner.

Dr Lerma is an Internal Medicine Physician, Chief Operating & Financial Officer for Sol Tryp, and a Co-Founder of Medicina Del Sol. He earned his medical degree from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Guadalajara Mexico and facilitated his Internal Medicine Residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center at Richmond University Medical Center in New York City, Veterans Affairs in Salem, Virginia, and LewisGale Hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia. Early in his career, Dr Lerma attended the University of Houston and acquired his Doctor of Pharmacy degree. In his spare time, Dr Lerma enjoys spending time further understanding the various psychedelic entheogens and medicinal therapies to further advance the betterment of patient outcomes. Both Drs Lerma and Thorne have treated hundreds of patients with ketamine for the management of treatment-resistant depression, suicide, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and bipolar disorder. These experiences have been both enlightening and transformative for the majority of patients.

LeeAnn Meadows, born and raised in Humboldt County, California, now calls New Mexico home. She lives on the outskirts of Las Cruces with her artist/husband Glenn Schwaiger and two dogs in an old adobe motor court surrounded by pecan trees. Psychedelic medicine helped LeeAnn to heal from CSA and C-PTSD. She feels passionately about the power of psychedelics and believes in making plant medicine more accessible. After a career in pediatric physical therapy, LeeAnn now enjoys writing poetry, calligraphy, bookbinding, and gardening.

Professor Michael W. Collard received his PhD in Biochemistry from Washington State University in 1987, and has served on the medical school faculty at Southern Illinois University, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and at the American University of the Caribbean, Sint Maarten. He has over 40 years of research experience in the fields of medical biochemistry, molecular biology and molecular genetics.

Valerie began working with the Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico in 2001. We ran our first Medical Cannabis Bill “Lynn Pierson Compassionate Use Act” in 2001. We passed “The Lynn & Erin Compassionate Use Act in 2007. Worked on and passed many other progressive bills throughout the years.Began working on The Cannabis Reform Act in various forms in 2012. Passed the CRA in 2022. Essentially I spent 21 years on passing these Cannabis bills.I have been a part of the NM Industry town halls as we reach out to the Industry for data gathering and teach folks to become advocates for their Industry in New Mexico.Deputy Director at El Paso NORML.

Mat is a Brazilian-American chemical engineer passionate about creating equitable access to compassionate mental health care. Having worked at the frontier of biologic therapeutics as a scientist during the COVID pandemic, Mat underwent training on psychedelic medicine in hopes of building a more informed, connected, and integrated world. During 2021, Mat worked as Support Staff for a men’s substance-use-disorder Recovery Residence in Somerville, MA and volunteered in Hospice care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Moving to Las Cruces in 2023, Mat aims at changing how New Mexico can prioritize mental health, shed stigma, and spur collective action to grant access to life-changing medicines.

Fernanda Quevedo was born and raised in the border metroplex, El Paso – Ciudad Juárez. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience with a minor in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin (UT). While at UT she first got involved in supporting mental well-being, conducting undergraduate research on a pre-clinical model of post-traumatic-stress-disorder (PTSD). Fernanda served as Program Manager for a clinical and translational research program in Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She found strength in supporting rare disease research for underrepresented groups and quality of life research for those living with a chronic illness. More recently, while working at MAPS PBC, Fernanda supported MDMA-Assisted Therapy as a treatment for PTSD. Fernanda feels passionately about working to destigmatize and improve access to psychedelic substances to help those who are overburdened by their symptoms and help us connect to ourselves and each other in more meaningful ways.