Madison Margolin

About Madison Margolin

Madison Margolin is a journalist covering psychedelics and spirituality. She is the author of Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass & Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground. Also the host of the Be Here Now Network\'s Set & Setting Podcast, as well as the co-founder of both DoubleBlind Magazine and the Jewish Psychedelic Summit, she has written for publications like Rolling Stone, Playboy, VICE, High Times, Lucid News, and Jewish publishing house and production studio Ayin Press, where she works as an editor curating psychedelic stories and interviews. With a master\'s from Columbia Journalism School and a bachelor\'s in rhetoric and linguistics from UC Berkeley, Madison has traveled everywhere from pot farms in the Emerald Triangle to the shores of the Ganges River and all over Israel|Palestine exploring the role of entheogens in religion, health, and conflict resolution. With a decade\'s worth of experience covering psychedelics, cannabis, and religion/spirituality, Madison\'s work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, KCRW, and other outlets. She offers classes, workshops, and consulting on the topic(s) of Judaism and psychedelics, and has presented at conferences like SXSW, Horizons: Perspectives in Psychedelics, the Association of Alternative News Media, and more.Best way to contact me is through the contact form on my website: madisonmargolin.com

Experience

1. Co-founder

   Doubleblind

   Dec 2018 — Present

   DoubleBlind is a media company and education platform at the forefront of the rapidly growing psychedelic movement. With contributors around the globe, DoubleBlind covers stories from South America’s ayahuasca tourism industry to the microdosing trend and the groundbreaking research at leading universities. At the core of DoubleBlind’s reporting are some of the most important issues of our time: the depression epidemic, the corporatization of medicine, and the aching people feel for spirituality or some other collective sense of meaning—all presented in visually compelling, rigorous long-form features, poetry, art, and photo essays. In addition to its print and online journalism, DoubleBlind offers a membership program, DoubleBlind+, a definitive resource for psychedelic education and community building. The program includes intimate conversations, a library featuring dozens of educational videos only available to members, webinars with the world’s leading psychedelic experts, and much more. DoubleBlind+ is the one-stop-shop for people who are just beginning to explore psychedelics, and don’t know where to begin, as well as people who are looking to go deeper into their healing journeys.

Education

• Columbia University

  Master of Science (M.S.)

  2014 — 2015

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.A.

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Editing
• Editorial
• Creative Writing
• Publications
• Media Relations
• Microsoft Word
• Photography
• Social Media
• Facebook
• Web Content
• Community Organizing
• Data Journalism
• Journalism
• French
• Research
• Writing
• Storytelling
• Microsoft Excel