Jeremy Narby, PhD, is a Canadian anthropologist and author focusing on Indigenous shamans and their knowledge of plant medicines, especially their use of psychedelics. He lived with the Ashaninca people of the Peruvian Amazon for several years, cataloging their use of Amazonian plants and their traditional knowledge systems in order to help keep them from losing their homeland to development in the 1980s. He has spent three decades as the Amazonian projects director for the Swiss nonprofit organization Nouvelle Planète.