Jeffrey is a writer, social science researcher, and program developer whose work focuses on psychedelics and religion.
Jeffrey Breau, MDiv. is Program Lead of Harvard’s Psychedelics and Spirituality initiative. Since 2023, he has been conducting ethnographic research with “novel psychedelic churches”—new religious movements forming around communal psychedelic use in the United States. At Harvard, he coordinates public events, trainings, and research on psychedelics and religion, including psychedelic chaplaincy, Indigenous plant medicine traditions, and religious freedom.
Jeffrey is co-founder of the annual Psychedelic Intersections conference at Harvard and of the Harvard Psychedelic History Walking Tour. At Harvard Law School, he is a project affiliated researcher of PULSE (Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience) at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.
Jeffrey previously worked as a program manager at Google, as the general manager of a nonprofit religious organization, and as the Director of Wellness and Self Discovery at Harvard College. He is a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and lives in Cambridge, MA, with his partner and their many houseplants.
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