Welcoming Nico Gusac to the PAREA team

PAREA is delighted to welcome Nico Gusac as our new Communications Officer!

Nico brings a multidisciplinary academic background to our team, with a BA in Economics and Global and International Studies from Bard College, NY. It was there that she first encountered the transformative potential of psychedelics as tools to reimagine how we approach mental health, healing, and our relationship with the world in the face of ongoing ecological and social crises. She is currently completing a Master’s in Medical Anthropology and Global Health in Tarragona, Spain, where her research explores the intersection of mental health, culture, and ethics.

Convinced that individual health is inseparable from the wellbeing of our communities and environments, Nico is committed to exploring not only the biomedical aspects of mental health, but also its cultural, relational, and systemic dimensions. As she puts it:

“Individual wellbeing cannot truly thrive in systems that pathologize human experience and foster disconnection. Storytelling is a vital tool for collective sense-making, especially as we confront the metacrisis shaping today’s global health challenges.”

At PAREA, Nico will support our communications efforts. Her expertise, passion, and dedication to creating supportive frameworks for integration will strengthen our mission to advance mental health and psychedelic research across Europe.