Olivia Goldhill
New America (Jonathan Logan Family Foundation) Fellow, 2024
Olivia Goldhill is an investigative journalist at STAT, working on a narrative non-fiction book for Bloomsbury about the race to create and control the legal psychedelic market. She has reported on psychology, pharma, and mental health for more than a decade.
Goldhill’s book will explore the potential for psychedelics to transform both the existing mental health industry and our understanding of our own minds, while holding those controlling psychedelics to account. Goldhill’s work has been recognized as a 2022 British Journalism Awards finalist, 2021 EPPY finalist, and a 2020 Livingston Award finalist.
This bio reflects the fellow’s work and affiliations as of their fellowship year.
Selected Work
- A Millionaire Couple is Threatening to Create a Magic Mushroom Monopoly: An article for Quartz covering an investigation into the first for-profit psychedelics company and its efforts to control the market.
- Psychedelic Therapy Has a Sexual Abuse Problem: An article for Quartz on an investigation that revealed sexual abuse during a clinical trial on MDMA.
- ‘It’s Not Medical’: Oregon Wrestles with How to Offer Psychedelics Outside the Health Care System: A feature for STAT on the first state to legalize magic mushrooms and the debates over how to create therapeutic psychedelics outside the medical system.
- A Psychedelic Therapist Allegedly Took Millions from a Holocaust Survivor, Highlighting Worries About Elders Taking Hallucinogens: An article for STAT covering an investigation into a board member of a leading psychedelics organization accused of elder abuse.
Fellowships
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