Michele Ross, PhD, MBA

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Dr. Michele Ross is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Aura Therapeutics, a plant-medicine therapy company focused on helping women. She has served on the medical advisory boards of many companies in the cannabis and wellness space and holds a PhD in Neuroscience as well as an Executive MBA.

She has authored 5 books including Kratom is Medicine, Vitamin Weed, CBD Oil For Health, and Train Your Brain To Get Thin. As both a patient with multiple chronic illnesses and a clinician, she has advocated for drug policy reform for over a decade. Dr. Ross was a founding member of the team that decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms in Denver, the first city in the US to do so.

Dr. Ross is known for breaking boundaries as the first scientist to star on a reality television series in the world, finishing 4th place on the hit CBS series Big Brother 11. She has been featured on the Today Show, The Doctors, Vice, and many other media outlets, and now lives in Oklahoma City, OK.

Read about her on Wikipedia.