Mitchell Gomez from DanceSafe and Maggie Seldeen from High Rockies Harm Reduction lead a talk on how to stay safe while hitting the town. Learn about psychedelic safety, drug testing, and lessons learned from over two decades of on-the-ground, at-the-party harm reduction efforts.

Mitchell Gomez is a graduate of New College of Florida (whose Alumni included the founders of Erowid, MAPS and the Zendo Project), and has his Masters from CU Denver. Mitchell joined Dancesafe as their National Outreach Director in 2014, and he was promoted to Executive Director in March of 2017. He is a Harm Reduction Consultant at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, has volunteered with the Burning Man organization, SSDP and other small harm reduction projects for many years, and is a passionate advocate for reality-based drug policy and harm reduction.

Maggie Seldeen is the founder and director of High Rockies Harm Reduction, a rural nonprofit committed to reducing overdose deaths and other negative consequences of substance use through the expansion of evidence-based treatment in rural Colorado. Maggie was raised in Carbondale, Colorado and lost her mother to a heroin overdose as a teenager, at which time she was also an injection drug user and polysubstance abuser. Now a person in active and sustained, non-abstinence-based recovery, Maggie has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from Colorado Mesa University and is a Certified Colorado Peer and Family Specialist. Maggie has trained hundreds of people all over the country on Narcan, harm reduction strategies and the current overdose/fentanyl epidemic.