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Derek BeresWriter | Editor | Podcaster | Speaker
Derek Beres is a multi-faceted author, speaker, and podcaster based in Portland, Oregon. He has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He regularly speaks on science and media literacy. Derek is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and founder of Siris Health.
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📚 Books: Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat | Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music | Hero's Dose: The Case for Psychedelics in Ritual and Therapy
✒️ Writing: 40+ publications, including The Guardian, Time, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Teen Vogue, Salon | Full catalog of 1,000+ Big Think articles here
🎤 Speaker: Oregon Library Association's 2023 Keynote Speaker | World Health Organization | IDEA World Fitness Convention | Shape Michigan 2017 Keynote Speaker | Harvard University | NYU | University of Arizona | University of Alabama | Powell's Books | Creative Mornings
🏋🏻 Fitness: Group Fitness instructor, Equinox Fitness, 2004-2020. Taught yoga, studio cycling, kettlebells, & main studio formats. Online library @ Yogis Anonymous. ACE, AFAA, Schwinn, & Kettlebell Athletics certified. Currently a road & gravel cycling enthusiast: Strava
🎧 Music: Co-founder, EarthRise SoundSystem. Produced records for Six Degrees Records & Vieux Farka Toure. Toured with Globesonic. Former Kollektiv w/Karsh Kale & Turntables on the Hudson. DJ’d w/Jamiroquai, Ojos De Brujo, Sidestepper, Brazilian Girls, Yerba Buena, Antibalas, Cheb i Sabbah. Music supervisor for DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Mixes: Spotify
📸 Photography: National Geographic, Urb, Remix, Relix, XLR8R
🎯 Fun Facts: Former crossword puzzle magazine & international music magazine editor. Co-founded Flow Play @ Equinox, a music/yoga/neuroscience training program & group fitness class. Served as the Creative Director of the Tadasana Festival of Yoga & Music. Cut his teeth as a religion reporter at Rutgers in 1993, and as a news and entertainment reporter at a variety of New Jersey-based newspapers.
📰 Press: CNN | Good Morning America | NY Times | LA Times | NY Mag | NY Review of Books | NBC News | GQ | Time | Wired | Fast Company | VICE | Guardian | Harper’s Bazaar | KCRW | CBC | Inc | Rolling Stone | Associated Press | The Cut | The Daily Beast | Cosmopolitan | NPR | BBC
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✒️ Writing: 40+ publications, including The Guardian, Time, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Teen Vogue, Salon | Full catalog of 1,000+ Big Think articles here
🎤 Speaker: Oregon Library Association's 2023 Keynote Speaker | World Health Organization | IDEA World Fitness Convention | Shape Michigan 2017 Keynote Speaker | Harvard University | NYU | University of Arizona | University of Alabama | Powell's Books | Creative Mornings
🏋🏻 Fitness: Group Fitness instructor, Equinox Fitness, 2004-2020. Taught yoga, studio cycling, kettlebells, & main studio formats. Online library @ Yogis Anonymous. ACE, AFAA, Schwinn, & Kettlebell Athletics certified. Currently a road & gravel cycling enthusiast: Strava
🎧 Music: Co-founder, EarthRise SoundSystem. Produced records for Six Degrees Records & Vieux Farka Toure. Toured with Globesonic. Former Kollektiv w/Karsh Kale & Turntables on the Hudson. DJ’d w/Jamiroquai, Ojos De Brujo, Sidestepper, Brazilian Girls, Yerba Buena, Antibalas, Cheb i Sabbah. Music supervisor for DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Mixes: Spotify
📸 Photography: National Geographic, Urb, Remix, Relix, XLR8R
🎯 Fun Facts: Former crossword puzzle magazine & international music magazine editor. Co-founded Flow Play @ Equinox, a music/yoga/neuroscience training program & group fitness class. Served as the Creative Director of the Tadasana Festival of Yoga & Music. Cut his teeth as a religion reporter at Rutgers in 1993, and as a news and entertainment reporter at a variety of New Jersey-based newspapers.
📰 Press: CNN | Good Morning America | NY Times | LA Times | NY Mag | NY Review of Books | NBC News | GQ | Time | Wired | Fast Company | VICE | Guardian | Harper’s Bazaar | KCRW | CBC | Inc | Rolling Stone | Associated Press | The Cut | The Daily Beast | Cosmopolitan | NPR | BBC
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