Meet the ERIE team!

Jen Bruce, ERIE Board

Jen Bruce ERIE Board Member: Informed by my own journey to wellness through my personal experience of addiction and recovery spanning over two decades, I have sought out the best instruction in the world in everything that I believe is essential for quality recovery, but that isn’t being utilized enough in addiction recovery in an effort to improve the outcome for people’s addiction treatment and quality of their long-term recovery. I hold advanced certifications in functional medicine nutrition, orthomolecular medicine for addiction and mental health, integrative nutrition health coaching, Himalayan kundalini yoga and meditation, raw foods culinary arts, and as a certified as a transformational recovery coach and psychedelic integration specialist. Over the past decade, through one-on-one and group settings, I have had the opportunity to serve hundreds of people whose lives have been affected by addiction and other traumatic experiences.

Brittany Bolton, ERIE Board

Brittany Bolton is a Board member of ERIE and co-founder of the Milwaukee Psychedelic Society. She also serves as co-director of Decriminalize Nature Wisconsin. Brittany holds a bachelor’s of science in Education and Sociology from Marquette University. She is now an educator in integration practices and is an avid practitioner of breathwork. Brittany’s mission in life is to build community by sharing the good news of hope & healing, paying forward the grace of psychedelic medicine, inspiring others to live healthy, happy, and strong, service-driven lives. She always strives to be a light in the dark for others seeking to heal and find relief from emotional and behavioral challenges.

Larry Norris, PhD, Executive Director and Co-Founder

Larry Norris, PhD, is the co-founder and executive director of ERIE 501(c)(3) dedicated to the development of entheogenic research and integration models. Larry is also a co-founder and Board member of Decriminalize Nature Oakland and helped to co-author the resolution which received an unanimous decision from Oakland City Council. Following Oakland’s success, Larry has been offering educational support to Decriminalize Nature USA and is currently in discussions with communities in over 100 cities nationwide. Beginning his studies in cognitive science as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, he is now a PhD candidate in the East-West Psychology department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. His dissertation reviews archived ayahuasca experiences to identify transformational archetypes that induce insights hidden within the experiences. As adjunct faculty at CIIS, Larry taught a graduate course called Entheogenic Education: Contemporary Perspectives on Ancient Plant Wisdom in order to discuss the concept of entheogens as educational teachers and cognitive tools. He was also an adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University teaching a class titled Paradigms of Consciousness.  A dedicated activist and proponent of cognitive liberty, Larry’s efforts are a contribution to not only change the Western legal status of these powerful plants, fungus, and compounds, but also to emphasize the potential sacred nature of entheogens given the right set and setting.