Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, Cooked and This Is Your Mind on Plants. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, he is a professor of practice at Harvard and the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley.

His book How to Change Your Mind, later adapted into a Netflix documentary series, brought the science of psychedelic-assisted therapy to a mainstream audience, including its use in easing existential distress in people with life-threatening illness. He is a co-founder of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. TIME has named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.