Diana Negrín is a geographer, writer and curator based in the Bay Area and Guadalajara. She is the author of Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism and the Right to the Mexican City (University of Arizona Press 2019) and Grandes maestros del arte wixárika (Secretaría de Cultura Jalisco; Wixarika Research Center 2019). Currently, Negrín is a professor in Geography at UC Berkeley. She is part of the Board of Directors and she helps run the Wixarika Research Center, a non-profit that supports archival, cultural and ecological projects with Wixarika communities. She sits in the Advisory Board of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. Since 2018, Negrín has actively participated in discussions surrounding psychedelics, Indigenous territorial rights and cultural extraction.