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 on the advisory council of PsychSems, 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.