Azul DelGrasso, PhD (Romani), is a multifaceted scholar-practitioner, artist, and ceremonialist with over 30 years of leadership in public health and capacity-building assistance. His distinguished career includes pioneering national programs that advanced HIV prevention, social equity, and trauma-informed care—work now bridged into his current focus on psychedelic consultation, ceremony, and consciousness research.
Throughout his public health career, Azul provided national training and technical assistance in Social Determinants of Health, Community Equity, and Culturally Affirmative Care, supported through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Capacity Building Assistance programs. He championed sex positivity and harm reduction, spearheading the first rapid HIV testing program in Mexico in collaboration with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and CAPASITS Baja California. In 2010, as part of the Magic Johnson HIV Testing Tour, he tested high-risk individuals across all 48 continental U.S. states. Later, as one of Los Angeles County’s first PrEP Coordinators, Azul helped launch more than fifteen PrEP Institutes nationwide.
Having recently earned his Ph.D. in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies, Azul’s research explores 5-MeO-DMT, unitive consciousness, and ecological identity—framing psychedelics as catalysts for collective and personal transformation. His lifelong relationship with ceremonial medicine, rooted in his Romani lineage, has informed his approach to trauma-informed facilitation, ethics, and integrative healing since the age of eighteen.
With dual Master’s Degrees in Latin American Studies (California State University, Los Angeles) and Ecopsychology (Naropa University), Azul bridges public health, consciousness studies, and social justice. After more than a decade in Los Angeles, he now lives in Denver, Colorado, where he is fully dedicated to his consulting practice, ceremonial facilitation, and academic research through his platform, Ascended Voices. His work continues to help individuals and communities reclaim voice, presence, and wholeness through conscious, ethical engagement with altered states and integrative healing practices.
