Speaking & Consulting
I speak and consult on drugs, policy, and prisons.
Three ways to work together: hands-on consulting and training for organizations and research teams, expert keynotes, and a few story-driven talks I love to give.
Speaking & Consulting
Three ways to work together: hands-on consulting and training for organizations and research teams, expert keynotes, and a few story-driven talks I love to give.
Hands-on engagements for organizations and research teams — workshops, training, and ongoing advising.
Lived Experience as Expertise
Bring people who use drugs onto the team as true co-researchers — not tokens — with real infrastructure to recruit, support, and retain them, and real models for compensation, co-authorship, and power-sharing.
Research teams · universities · funders · workshopStorytelling as Advocacy
Turn findings into policy: how to write and place op-eds in the national press, plus the calculus of disclosure — when and whether to name your own incarceration or substance-use history in public, and what it costs. Make a number tell a human story.
Researchers · advocates · comms teams · keynote / workshopAgentic AI for Research
Put agentic AI to work across primary- and secondary-source research — discovery, extraction, and synthesis — to accelerate the grind without outsourcing judgment. Grounded in daily working use.
Academics · research teams · workshop / trainingGenerative AI for Comms & Social
Science communication and social media that doesn't suck to make or to view — using AI to do the boring work so you can do the real work, where it matters. Plus the ethics: when generative AI is appropriate, when it isn't, how to disclose it, and how to keep rigor and your own voice intact.
Researchers · nonprofits · comms teams · workshopSupporting Formerly Incarcerated Scholars
Help formerly incarcerated people build research careers — and help institutions actually recruit, support, and retain them. From a federal cell to research across the world.
Universities · fellowships · justice & DEI initiatives · keynote + advisingWhere my day job endsMy research at UCLA — drug checking and the science that comes from it — is my salaried work, and it stays there. Consulting engagements are independent: training, storytelling, and AI. I don't sell drug-checking services or contract research; drug checking is a free public service through Drug Checking Los Angeles.
On brand dealsI'm not a paid shill — so don't ask. I'm not hawking pimple patches or knockoff thermoses. But if you've got something actually aligned that I might be into? Hit me up.
Subject-matter talks for conferences, agencies, universities, and clinical audiences.
The Synthetic Opioid Era
What the illicit supply is really made of, what drives overdose, and what prevents death — including the first US detection of BTMPS in fentanyl. Research across six countries; a study visit with the EU Drugs Agency in Lisbon.
Clinical · academic · government · internationalMethadone Without Borders
A comparative analysis of methadone across seven countries — Portugal, Lithuania, Estonia, Ireland, the UK, the US, and Mexico — merged with lived experience as a patient in three of them. The US lags painfully behind. Why, and what does it mean?
Clinical · policy · recovery · internationalLessons from Measure 110
Oregon's decriminalization and recriminalization — the policy, the data, and the failures, real and imagined — from inside the Measure 110 Oversight & Accountability Council.
Policymakers · public health · universitiesThe War on Drugs, in the Long View
How federal drug laws built the carceral system — the historical through-lines connecting prisons and the war on drugs, and where substance use and incarceration meet. Grounded in a federal cell and two academic book chapters with Columbia and Rutgers University Press.
Universities · policymakers · justice · public healthNaloxone at the Function
Overdose prevention in nightlife and music — what worked taking Beats Overdose across 35 states in partnership with Rhymesayers Entertainment.
Events · music industry · public healthUniversities, agencies, legislatures, and movement spaces.