Dayne Rayford holds a B.S. in psychology from Sacred Heart University and works as a postgraduate associate at the Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and at the AZA Lab within Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry. His work centers around holistic, inclusive, patient-centered health approaches for underserved communities. At the AZA Lab he has focused on music and psychedelic based therapies as a means for studying and fostering social connection. At PRCH he has worked primarily studying substance use disorders and financial well-being. Dayne is passionate about the treatment of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders, the use and efficacy of psychedelic assisted therapy, and health as a social and environmental consequence. He is also interested in process philosophy, panpsychism, and parapsychology.