Mia Cara Cosco

Mia Cara Cosco is passionate about studying the long-term effects of childhood trauma and grief. She worked as a research assistant at the University of British Columbia Peer Relationships in Childhood Lab (PEARL) while co-leading the first UBC Psychedelic Club with Manesh Girn. Upon graduating, she worked with venture capitalists and toured psychedelic labs as a project manager at Perception Medicine Foundation. Mia went on to volunteer with MAPS Canada and The Zendo Project at Burning Man in both 2019 and 2022.She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and works as both a model and research assistant with Quantified Citizen, studying how psychedelics (among other things) affect women’s premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder symptoms. She hosts support groups for grief both online and offline through her membership platform, The Beauty of Grief, and sometimes in partnership with Daybreaker at The Belong Center Boston. She also writes freelance on mental health, New Age spirituality and psychedelics.