Missi Wooldridge
Missi Wooldridge earned her B.S. in Community Health with a concentration in Sexual Health and her Masters in Public Health with a concentration in Social Behavioral Sciences and Community Health. Prior to launching Healthy Nightlife, LLC, she served as executive director of DanceSafe, a non-profit organization promoting health and safety in the nightlife and electronic music community.
She has been featured in The New York Times, Billboard Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Vice, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, among many others – with appearances on talk radio shows across the country and television shows including Katie Couric Show and Al Jazeera: Tech Know. She’s organized and been featured on many conference panels at conferences and has also managed outreach services and organized harm reduction and peer eduction teams at 100+ electronic music events including EDC Las Vegas, TomorrowWorld, Mysteryland, Electric Forest Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival, Detroit Electronic Music Festival / Movement, Lightning in a Bottle, Backwoods Music Festival, Summer Camp Music Festival, among others.
She’s served on commissions, coalitions, and other professional workgroups including Denver Drug Strategy Commission, Los Angeles County Electronic Music Task Force Education and Best Practice & and Electronic Music Community Subcommittees, Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse & Mass Gathering Medical: Stakeholder Workgroup, Preventing Alcohol- and Drug-Related Harms at Music Festivals, NEXT LEVEL, Nightlife Empowerment Well-Being Implementation Network, and Nightlife Harm Reduction of the Americas.
Missi is a leader, community organizer, and a visionary with the expertise your company needs to expand its health promotion and drug education efforts.
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