Project Manager
Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan
Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan has over 20 years of experience in the NGO, UN, and private sectors in the Asia-Pacific and Greater Mekong Sub-region. He is a senior-level specialist in global health/emergency communications and advocacy, project management, and high-level management.
He has gained valuable experience serving in UN peacekeeping missions in East Timor and Ethiopia and has also contributed to The World Health Organization for 5 years, working on health emergencies. He also worked in humanitarian emergencies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Nepal for various international organizations providing essential health services and temporary shelter. In 1996, the Portuguese government recognized his outstanding contribution to human rights work in the region by awarding him the Order of Merit. He has authored a book titled East Timor: Blood and Tears in ASEAN (Silkworm Books, 1997), where he extensively used journalistic sources to shed light on the East Timor question. The book reveals the unfortunate display of backscratching within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and highlights the island’s poignant history.
Sonny has a Masters in Science (Humanitarian Studies) from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, where he graduated with distinction. He also holds professional qualifications from prestigious institutions like Johns Hopkins University and Erasmus University in using mathematical models to predict disease outbreaks.
Sonny is skilled in using Tarot for healing and offers regular Tarot readings by appointment. He is also a trained martial artist and a Vipassana meditation practitioner.
In Somaya, Sonny is leading the way with the Voices of Wisdom Keepers project, which will provide media fellowships to community journalists. This will help document the on-the-ground views of Indigenous Peoples, who have been overlooked in Western psychedelic research and assisted therapies. The increasing global demand for plant-derived psychedelics is leading to unauthorized research and drug development, which unfortunately contributes to rainforest deforestation. However, there is hope that we can find sustainable ways to meet this demand without harming our precious rainforests.
The community stories will celebrate the importance of Indigenous Peoples and their traditional knowledges within Western educational settings, research, and practice systems. There will be a strong focus on empowering their leadership and presence for the betterment of Mother Earth and all living beings.
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