Gina Mostafa, MPH, founded queering existentialism in the winter of 2023. Their academic background is in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, and they earned their Masters Degree in Public Health Policy in 2021, where they focused on the intersections of bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, and equity in access to psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. 

Between 2015 and 2019, they worked as a political organizer for Planned Parenthood and as violence-prevention educator at the University of Iowa, facilitating workshops on consent, healthy relationships and dismantling rape culture, in addition to volunteering as an abortion doula for a local feminist clinic. After completing their MPH, they focused mental health interventions on a community level, volunteering for various organizations in the psychedelic space such as the Psychedelic Sisterhood and the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society. Professionally, they have experience as a researcher, facilitator, and educator at organizations such as the NYC Department of Health, Mount Sinai, and NYU’s School of Global Public Health, on topics including sexual health care access and education, as well as mindfulness as a mental health intervention. Currently, they work on the intersections of digital equity and access to critical services such as healthcare and education.

Logina draws from their lived experiences, intersectional identities, and professional background, to co-create containers for value-based community building and mutual aid through Queering Existentialism. Their goal is to co-create containers that explore practical and accessible ways to shift the way we live towards a harmonious and sustainable place, starting at a hyper local level.