Preeti is a Ferriss-Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow and Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, reporting on what it means to decolonize psychedelics and researching a book on South Asian mental health and psychedelics. She is an instructor in the Integrate Evolve Queer Psychedelic Facilitator Education Program and the CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research Psychedelic Facilitator Training. She has spoken on five continents at events including Psychedelic Science, the Global Landscapes Forum, WOMAD, Terra Madre, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

Simran has lectured on integenerational trauma and psychedelics, Asian mental health, biodiversity, climate change, and sustainability at institutions including the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Cornell University, the Commonwealth Club, the Sydney Opera House, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Smith College (which awarded her the 2009 Smith College Medal).

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

Keynote, Elizabeth Miller Lecture, Smith College (virtual, April 2021)

Speaker, The Commonwealth Club (San Francisco, CA, October 2016)

Moderator, Columbia University (New York, NY, February 2016)

Speaker, UniSA Planet Talks, University of South Australia (Melbourne, Australia, March 2015)

Presenter, Queen’s College (Melbourne, Australia, October 2013)

Presenter, TEDx Plaza Cibeles (Madrid, Spain, June 2012)

Presenter, James Beard Foundation Food Conference (New York City, NY, October 2012)

Keynote, University of Southampton’s Interdisciplinary Research Week (Southampton,
England, March 2014)

Moderator, Clinton Global Initiative (San Diego, CA, April 2011)

Presenter, TEDx Manhattan (New York City, NY, February 2013)

John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment Conference (Washington, D.C., March 2016)

Panelist, International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington, D.C., March 2018)