Description:
- Coordinate and staff harm reduction teams for events; medical team assistance; distributing educational and harm reduction resources/supplies
Examples:
- Executed and managed over 100 onsite harm reduction operations at underground and commercial events for NY DanceSafe between 2013 – 2019, training and overseeing over 50 volunteers during the tenure.
- Events include, but not limited to: Escape Music Festival, Mysteryland, Verboten: Stage One, Tipper and Friends ‘Tipsgiving’, Evolutions Music Festival, Sustain-Release, and more.
- Venues include, but are not limited to: Paperbox NYC (now The Meadows), Knockdown Center, The House of Yes, Nowadays, Kings Theatre, and more.
- Coordinated and trained drug checking services (colorimetric reagent and TLC) at AfrikaBurn 2018 and 2019 in Tankwa Karoo, South Africa, analyzing over 100 substances.
- Organized a large-scale awareness event designed as a 12 hour daytime music festival, enlisting the services of Drug Policy Alliance, Harm Reduction Coalition, Community Healthcare Network, Center for Optimal Living, Harmonium, and Brooklyn Defender Services, and more.
