Dr. AZA Stephen Allsop, MD, Ph.D.

AZA Stephen Allsop, MD, Ph.D., is an artist, neuroscientist, and psychiatrist who conducts research at the intersection of social cognition, music psychology, and psychedelics.

AZA studied Biology, Philosophy, and Jazz Studies at North Carolina Central University, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT, and was an Emerson Scholar at Berklee College of Music. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at Yale and is currently an Assistant Professor in Yale’s Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Collective Healing at Howard University.

He teaches meditation, yoga, and music and co-founded Renaissance Entertainment, Mefreely, and Brain, Bias, and Being, companies that combine arts, science, and community building to drive socio-cultural change.