Tatiana Luz Quintana
Co-leader, DNS; Co-Director, PMAW; Founder, The Zome
Founded The Zome — a 'grow-gather-gift' equity-focused alternative to commercial and church-based psilocybin distribution.
Biography
Tatiana Luz Quintana co-leads Decriminalize Nature Seattle, co-directs PMAW alongside Kody Zalewski, and founded The Zome — a Seattle psychedelic community group focused on nature-based discussions and equity in entheogen access. The Zome promotes a 'grow-gather-gift' model: a non-commercial framework where individuals cultivate, collect, and freely share entheogens rather than purchasing them.
This model represents a distinct alternative to both commercial dispensary models (Oregon, Colorado) and church-based distribution (Oakland, Santa Cruz). It directly challenges the commercialization trajectory many psychedelic movement observers consider inevitable, while staying within the legal boundaries created by Washington's decriminalization framework. Together with Zalewski, Quintana drove the evolution of DNS into PMAW in 2021 to push statewide legislative change.
Organizations
Why They Matter to the LearnShrooms Community
Quintana represents the equity-focused, anti-commercialization wing of the psychedelic movement. The 'grow-gather-gift' model she's built through The Zome is one of the few well-articulated alternatives to the commercial-or-church binary that dominates legal psilocybin access.
Legal Context
For the legal landscape where Tatiana Luz Quintana operates, see psilocybin laws in Washington.