Jamilah R. George, M.Div., M.S., a Detroit native, singer, dancer, and actress, obtained her dual bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, her master's degree from Yale University, and completed post-graduate training on the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit in the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She is now a Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate at the University of Connecticut and is currently completing her Psychology Residency at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Jamilah served as a psychotherapy co-therapist on a MAPS-sponsored phase 3 MDMA-assisted clinical trial focused on treating racism-based trauma among people of color. She holds various professional leadership positions, including Advisory Board Member of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. Her program of research includes posttraumatic stress, racism-based trauma, and associated chronic health conditions, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, the neurological underpinnings of these disorders, and the potential promise of psychedelic medicine to effectively treat these disorders. Jamilah’s passion for social justice and equality issues fuels her work as she advocates for the mental and holistic well-being of socially disenfranchised groups, including women, people of color, impoverished domestic and international communities, and the intersections therein.