
About Dr. Diana Quinn
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Diana Quinn ND (she/her)
Diana Quinn, ND is a licensed naturopathic doctor, culture worker, 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.
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 and A Sacred Passing.
As an activist and culture worker in the field of psychedelic medicine, Dr. Quinn has served on several boards, advisory committees, and working groups for organizations shaping the future of the psychedelic field, bringing a grounding in equity and social justice to this spaces. Historically these have included: Board of Psychedelic Medicine and Therapies (Co-chair DEI Committee), Source Research Foundation (Chair of Community Grant Program), American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, Chacruna Institute Racial Equity and Access Committee, Research to Reality Global Summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine.
In 2021 she 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 facilitates decentralized spaces for community support, and provides information about psychedelics in an approach grounded in social justice.
Dr. Quinn developed and oversaw psychedelic facilitation training as Director of Clinical Education at Naropa University Center for Psychedelic Studies, and as Director of Education of Alma Institute. She served as mentor for University of California Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, and taught as a guest instructor at InnerTrek, Integrate Evolve, and GatherWell.
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 she stands in solidarity with the Native American, Aboriginal, and Indigenous Peoples of the world in protecting their sovereignty, culture, language, land, and ways of life, which includes defending against the extractive practices rife within the psychedelic movement.