PT 651 - Betty Aldworth & Ismail Ali: MAPS Co-Executive Directors on Leadership, Research, and the Future of Psychedelics
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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MAPS co-executive directors Betty Aldworth and Ismail Ali join Psychedelics Today to talk about leading one of the most visible organizations in the psychedelic field during a period of transition. The conversation covers their move into permanent leadership, how they work together, and how MAPS is thinking about research, education, policy, and movement strategy after a difficult period for the organization and the broader field.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore. Today we are joined by |
| 0:24.3 | Betty Aldworth and Ismail Ali, the co-executive directors of Maps. We talk about leadership, |
| 0:31.5 | transitions, the future of Maps, and how the organization is thinking about research, education, |
| 0:38.6 | policy, and movement building in the next phase of psychedelics. |
| 0:40.9 | It's a wide-ranging conversation about responsibility, collaboration, and what comes next. |
| 0:46.4 | So it's been a big set of changes at Maps over the past bit of time. |
| 0:51.8 | We get to learn about what's coming. |
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