Karina Bashir is a regulatory compliance attorney and research scholar at UC Berkeley School of Law.

Karina’s work will play a critical role in advancing industry growth and safe and equitable access to psychedelic medicine. She is leading a regulatory initiative focused on best practices and developing an industry-led voluntary disclosure tool to build public trust and enhance industry accountability and transparency.

Karina’s focus on ethics and best practices in the psychedelic arena is driven by her experience as a human rights advocate and as a regulatory compliance attorney at a large globally renowned international law firm, where she developed her ESG expertise.

Karina’s legal practice encompasses emerging issues in the psychedelic arena alongside ESG regulatory, enforcement, and litigation issues, AML and FCPA compliance and internal investigations, as well as international human rights considerations for financial institutions. Karina is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and the American Health Law Association.

She sits on the Board of Directors of the Psychedelic Bar Association, where she is also a steward of the Religious Use Committee. Karina is a Fulbright Scholar and Gates Cambridge Scholar and received her JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and BA from the University of Michigan.