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2026 Hollers & Horizons Virtual Town Hall Dates

Last Monday of every month

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  • February 2, 2026: The Psychedelic Frontier in Appalachia: Policy, Public Safety, Opportunity (Recording Available)

    Speakers: AppCoLab Co-Founders Justin Moore, M.S. CMHC & Ali McGhee, Ph.D.

  • February 23, 2026: Coming Back to Myself: Addiction, Ibogaine, and Hope in Appalachia (Recording Available)

    Speaker: Jessica Allen, LMSW

  • March 30, 2026:Drug Policy at a Crossroads: Cannabis, Psychedelics & Justice in America (Recording Available)

  • Speaker: Jason Ortiz, Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Last Prisoner Project, Policy Committee Chair for the Puerto Rican Psychedelic Collective

  • April 27th, 2026: rescheduled: August 31st.

  • Speaker: Susan Ousterman, Vilomah Foundation

  • May 25th, 2026: A Veteran’s Transformation: from Soldier to Sound in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (Recording Available)

  • Speaker: Veteran Rogers Masson, Psysonics

  • June 29th, 2026: Psychedelics, Faith, and Healing in Rural Communities
    (recording available to community sustainers)

  • Speakers:

    Carrie Griffin, DO: Holistic Physician, Trauma Therapist, and Psychedelic Medicine Practitioner

    Hunt Priest, M.Div: Founder of Ligare: A Christian Psychedelic Society

Carrie Griffin, DO, a native of eastern Virginia, was educated at Virginia Tech and trained in medical residency in Asheville, North Carolina, who now serves rural and underserved communities in Humboldt County, California. Board certified in family and addiction medicine and fellowship trained in maternal and reproductive health, her path to medicine began with her own healing journey and years as a yoga teacher and therapist. She brings prenatal care, women’s health, newborn care, and addiction medicine to federally qualified health centers, tribal clinics, and residential treatment settings — meeting people where they are, in the fullness of their lives. A graduate of the MAPS MDMA Therapy Training, her work weaves together osteopathic medicine, somatic therapies, and psychedelic-assisted healing at the frontier of whole-person care for those most often left behind.rotations in Asheville, NC and means to practice medicine where

Hunt Priest, M.Div., is a native of Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where "the bluegrass meets the mountains." As a younger person, he spent signficant amounts traveling with his family in Eastern Kentucky and as an adult visits with friends in in Abingdon and Damascus, Virginia any chance he can get. He is the founder of Ligare: A Christian Psychedelic Society and a participant in the landmark 2016 Johns Hopkins/NYU Psilocybin Study for Religious Leaders. A priest in The Episcopal Church for 20 years — most recently rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Savannah, Georgia where he still lives — Hunt resigned his ordination in 2025 to dedicate himself fully to Ligare’s mission. His work lives at the crossroads of psychedelics, contemplative Christianity, end-of-life spiritual care, and mental health. 

Together, Carrie and Hunt ask what all of this might mean for rural and Appalachian communities—places where suspicion, faith, resilience, and suffering often sit side by side. This presentation is for anyone interested in honest, hopeful, and practical conversations about how psychedelic healing can honor local culture while opening new possibilities for care.

  • July 27th, 2026: At-Risk Entheogenic Plants - The Forgotten Ones

  • Speaker: Susan Leopold, Executive Director, United Plant Savers

  • (recording available)

    Susan Leopold, PhD, is an ethnobotanist and passionate defender of biodiversity. Over the past 20 years, Susan has worked extensively with indigenous peoples in Peru and Costa Rica. She is the Executive Director of United Plant Savers and Director of the Sacred Seeds Project.

    Prior to working at United Plant Savers, she worked as a librarian at the Oak Spring Garden Library, specializing in digitizing rare herbals and botanical travel manuscripts. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Botanical Dimensions and the Center for Sustainable Economy.

    She is an advisory board member of American Botanical Council. She is a proud member of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia and the author of the children’s book Isabella’s Peppermint Flower, teaching about Virginia’s botanical history.

    She lives on and manages a productive farm, the Indian Pipe Botanical Sanctuary with her three children in Virginia, where she raises goats, peacocks, and herbs. She is an avid recreational tree climber, in love with the canopy just as much as the herbs of the forest floor.

  • August 31st, 2026:Opioid Settlements: The Money, the Aftermath and the Systemic Betrayal

  • Speaker: Susan Ousterman, Vilomah Foundation

    On International Overdose Awareness Day, we’ll hear from Susan Ousterman.

    Billions of dollars moved through opioid settlements meant to repair what the crisis destroyed. Where that money actually went, and who it left behind, is a harder story to trace. Susan Ousterman has spent years pulling that story apart, tracking the funds, the process, and the systems that decided who got heard and who didn't. This session lays out what happened, what's left of the money now, and the systemic betrayal running underneath both.

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