Meet the ERIE team!
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 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, studied biopsychology and cognitive science as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, and defended his doctoral dissertation at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. His dissertation reviewed archived ayahuasca experience reports to identify transformational archetypes and insights that could help inform developing models of integration (meaning-making). Larry is the co-founder and executive director of Entheogenic Research, Integration, and Education (ERIE) a 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in the San Francisco Bay Area. ERIE is dedicated to the development of community education, research, and integration models related to entheogens. 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. Larry is also a co-founder and board member of Decriminalize Nature (DN), which sprouted from Oakland in 2019. He advocates for the unalienable right to develop one’s own relationship with Nature and aims to support efforts to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi (e.g., ayahuasca, iboga, cacti, mushrooms). Larry is DN’s national outreach director, and supports many cities and states across the USA and internationally who are seeking to propose similar legislation. 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.