This schedule is subject to significant change, please check back for frequent updates.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2018
5:00pm-8:00pm Registration
6:00pm-8:00pm Welcome Reception with light hors d’oeuvres and cash bar
6:30pm-7:00pm Opening Remarks
7:00pm-7:30pm Keynote Speaker: Maj. Neill Franklin (Ret)
8:00pm-10:00pm Congress I (students only)
8:00pm-10:00pm Alumni Gathering at Stacks, on-site restaurant at Embassy Suites
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2018
7:30am-9:30am Breakfast (provided by hotel, free for hotel guests)
9:00am-9:30am Peer Educator Meetup
9:30am-10:15am Keynote Speaker: Kassandra Frederique
10:30am-11:30am Breakout Sessions (4)
- Psychedelics and Health: Current research and how you can be involved
- Incubating Your Ideas: How to become an innovator in the advocacy sphere
- Campus Change Campaign: Identifying opportunities and getting results
- Cannabis and the NFL
11:45am-12:45pm Breakout Sessions (4)
- Psychedelic Harm Reduction
- Activism at the UN: Influencing international drug policy as young people
- Confidential Informant Reform: Learning from the lives of Andrew Sadek & Rachel Hoffman
- Advancing Harm Reduction Policy
12:45pm-1:15pm Lunch (provided for registered attendees)
1:15pm-2:30pm Congress II (students only)
2:45pm-3:45pm Breakout Sessions (4)
- Naloxone Training
- What Should We Vote On Next? Potential Ballot Initiative Campaigns Once Marijuana is Legal
- Post-Conviction Relief: Expungement, commutation, rights restoration, reparations
- Make Money Moves: How to fund your dreams
4:00pm-5:00pm DARE Plenary – Lived Experiences: Stories from the other side of the War on Drugs
5:00pm – 7:00pm Headshots
5:30pm-7:30pm Diversity Awareness Reflection and Education (DARE) Meet Up
8:00pm-9:30pm Awards Ceremony
9:30pm Group Photo
9:30pm-2:00am Live music and dance party featuring The Wets and Soohan, dance party, cash bar 8pm-midnight
SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018
7:30am-9:30am Breakfast (provided by hotel, free for hotel guests)
9:30am-10:15am Keynote Speaker: Rick Doblin, PhD
10:30am-11:30am Breakout Sessions (4)
- ACT UP: What we can learn from the radical history of harm reduction
- Silk Road, Cryptocurrency, and the Drug War
- Drug Education: Informing students and peers about drugs and drug policy
- West African Perspectives on Drug Policy
11:45am-12:45pm Breakout Sessions (4)
- Human Rights Challenge: Responding to extrajudicial killings in the Philippines
- Policy Responses to the Opioid Crisis: If you aren’t outraged, you’re not paying attention
- How To Be An Agent of Youth Harm Reduction
- Think on Your Feet and Start Making Sense
1:00pm-2:30pm Lunch + Lobbying Workshop for Beginners and Experts
2:45pm-3:45pm Breakout Sessions (4)
- Strange Bedfellows: Working with allies across the political spectrum
- Staying Woke II: How to talk about racism and the drug war
- Is your Community Ready for Supervised Consumption Spaces?
- “I’m Done with School. Now What?” Masters programs, careers and keeping it together
4:00pm-5:00pm Breakout Sessions (4)
- Mental Health and Drug Policy: Neurodivergent perspectives on drug policy reform
- Innovation in the New Jim Crow: Creating equity and access
- Decolonialism: A new strategy for Latin America
- The C-Word: Capitalism and the War on Drugs
5:15pm-6:00pm Plenary: The War on Drugs (and the fight against it) in Baltimore
6:00pm-6:30pm Closing Ceremonies
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2018
7:30am Board buses to DC
8:00am Busses depart Embassy Suites hotel
9:00am Busses arrive in Washington DC. Group photo at the Capitol
10:00am-4:30pm Lobby day meetings
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