About Our Experts
As part of the “In Pursuit of” series, Among Other Things invites experts to speak about issues affecting women.
Latest Pursuit:
Plant-based medicine experts
In Pursuit of: Microdosing Through Motherhood
Ivana Lucas, The Travel Agency
Ivana is the General Manager at the 5th Avenue location of The Travel Agency, a BIPOC-owned cannabis dispensary. She is a seasoned professional in the cannabis industry, with a passion for innovation and community and a wealth of knowledge around products. She is also the proud Mom to her 11-year old daughter.
Kimber Arezzi, Chime & Chill
Kimber is a patient and caregiver advocate in the New York State Medical Cannabis Program. As the parent of a minor child in the state program, Kimber advocates for normalizing patient access to regulated plant-based medicine and reframing the conversation around consumption. She also founded the cannabinoid brand Chime & Chill as a way for her to microdose her way to wellness.
Sang Choi, Etain
Sang is the lead pharmacist and dispensary director for Etain. Etain is a medical dispensary with an elevated offering, from topicals to edibles with a focus on education and helping you find how cannabis fits into your health and wellness journey.
Miss Grass is weed for the times. A women-founded, community-first cannabis brand, Miss Grass is on a mission to help the world get good at weed. To contribute to an equitable industry. To offer products you can trust. to eradicate the stigma and create a safe and accessible space for anyone with a desire to know more—all in the spirit of conscious consumption.
Peter Grayson, LCDP, The Flow Initiative
Peter is the Owner of his private practice, The Flow Initiative, and Director of Addiction Recovery at Nushama. He has spent the last 20 years disrupting the mental healthcare space as an early adopter of psychedelic assisted therapy (think Mushrooms, MDMA, Ketamine). He is a new father to a beautiful daughter and an advocate of initiatives to destigmatize and advance psychedelic and plant medicine.
Past Pursuits:
Women’s health experts for “In Pursuit of: Reproductive Freedom” Event
Dr. Genevieve Tam is the Co-founder & COO of Vitala Global
Dr. Genevieve Tam (she/her) is a Canadian obstetrician gynecologist and has spent the last 15 years working in global women's health with various NGOs around the world, including Doctors Without Borders. In 2020, her global health experiences culminated in her co-founding Vitala Global with her friend and colleague, Dr. Roopan Gill.
Genevieve is the Chief Operating Officer for Vitala and is grateful for the opportunity to co-lead Vitala with an amazing, passionate, multidisciplinary, and global team. Together, they work to advance Vitala's mission to revolutionize sexual and reproductive self-care through co-designed, holistic, and localized digital solutions that meet women and girls where they are, empowering them to be agents of change.
Francelle Kwankam Toedtli is a public health specialist, a women’s health and rights advocate and a sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) expert.
She has over fifteen years of global health experience across international contexts and for nearly a decade l has committed herself to strengthening women’s health and rights.
In particular, she develops evidence-based technical guidance, provides strategic direction, delivers technical assistance and supports thought leadership on comprehensive abortion care as part of an integrated approach to ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights for individuals in all their diversity.
Francelle has worked with United Nations agencies including the World Health Organization, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Ipas as well as in the private sector.