Diana Quinn, ND is a licensed naturopathic doctor and healing justice practitioner with over 20 years of service to marginalized communities including people of the global majority (BIPOC), 2SLGBTQIA+, and people living with disabilities and chronic illness. She holds a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on ritual, religion, and ethnobotany. Dr. Quinn trained at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, Oregon (2005) and is a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies Psychedelic-assisted Therapies and Research program (2021).

As a healing justice practitioner, Diana is a former partner with HealingbyChoice!, a community of women and gender nonconforming people of color practitioners offering a range of healing modalities for community care and the reduction of racial harm in mind, body, spirit, and institution. Additional lineages of training include generative somatics, Resmaa Menakem’s Abolitionist Somatics, Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, The Upledger Institute (CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release), and the Usui system of Reiki. She is trained as an End of Life Doula care (Lifespan Doulas, A Sacred Passing).

As an activist and culture worker in the field of psychedelic medicine, Dr. Quinn has served on numerous boards, advisory committees, and working groups for organizations shaping the future of the psychedelic field, bringing a grounding in equity and social justice to these spaces. Her contributions to the field have included: Board of Psychedelic Medicine and Therapies (co-chair DEI Committee), Source Research Foundation (board member, Chair of Community Grant Program, grant recipient), American Psychedelic Practitioners Association (Ethics Working Group), Chacruna Institute Racial Equity and Access Committee, Healing Hearts Changing Minds (grant recipient), Research to Reality Global Summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine (selection committee).

In 2021 Diana co-founded Psychedelic Liberation Collective, a group of queer, BIPOC-led facilitators working collectively to create spaces for healing and transformation for these communities. PLC facilitated decentralized spaces for community support, and provided information about psychedelics in an approach grounded in social justice.

In her appointment at Naropa University Center for Psychedelic Studies, Dr. Quinn oversaw the training of over 400 psychedelic therapists and facilitators. While at NCPS she served as the Director of Clinical Education, developing curriculum for facilitators in both clinical and Colorado state regulatory spaces. In Oregon, she developed curriculum in her role as the Director of Education of Alma Institute. She served as mentor for University of California Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. She has taught as a guest instructor at InnerTrek, Integrate Evolve, and GatherWell.

A longtime student of astrology, Diana has studied with Adam Elenbaas (Year One and Two, Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic, Year Two Advanced Hellenistic Astrology) and has learned from the work of many astrologers including: Chris Brennan, Demetra George, Diana Rose Harper, Kira Ryberg, Leisa Scheim, and Patrick Watson. She has been formally studying astrology since 2012 and practicing since 2022.

Dr. Quinn was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, territories of the Anishinaabe Council of Three Fires, Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatami. As a mestiza descendent of interrupted Indigenous lineage from Mexico, they stand in solidarity with the Native American, Aboriginal, and Indigenous Peoples of the world in defending their sovereignty, culture, language, and ways of life, which includes defending against the extractive practices of the psychedelic industry and advocating for LandBack.