Neill FranklinMajor Neill Franklin, a 34-year law enforcement veteran, retired from the Maryland State Police in 1999 after rising through the ran from undercover narcotics agent to a commander within the Bureau of Drug and Criminal Enforcement. After retirement, Major Franklin was recruited by the Baltimore Police Commissioner to command BPD’s Training Division and was soon after promoted to Chief of Human Resources. After realizing the great violence and other societal harms perpetuated by the failed war on drugs, Major Franklin stepped away from his law enforcement career to serve as the executive director for the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP). |
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Kassandra FrederiqueKassandra Frederique is New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA). Frederique cultivates and mobilizes powerful coalitions in communities devastated by drug misuse and drug criminalization. Her professional focus includes building a reparative justice framework that positions Black and Latinx leaders to create solutions that not only end and repair the harms of the drug war but also create accountability structures between policymakers and people who use drugs. |
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Rick DoblinRick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). His doctoral dissertation from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government was on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana; his undergraduate thesis at New College of Florida was a follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment. Rick was among the first to be certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner under Dr. Stanislav Grof. He works to develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise healthy people, and hopes to become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He and resides in Boston with his wife and their three children (when they’re not at college). |
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Gunnar Aas ‘15Gunnar Aas ‘15 (pronounced Oase) is a SSDP chapter leader at Hamline University (Saint Paul, MN). In addition to being an SSDP chapter leader, they serve on Sensible Minnesota’s Board of Directors, helped expand MN’s medical cannabis program to include PTSD and autism as qualifying conditions, and plans candidate forums and community dialogues around expanding legal cannabis access and drug policy reform. Gunnar is also a DanceSafe Visionary, and is working to establish the organization in the Twin Cities area. They also volunteer with Steve Rummler Hope Network, distributing naloxone and doing SIF advocacy. If you see them around, feel free to say hi! |
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Queen AdesuyiQueen Adesuyi is a policy associate at the Drug Policy Alliance’s Office of National Affairs in Washington, D.C., where she works to advance DPA’s federal legislative agenda. Her areas of focus include eliminating collateral consequences of drug convictions and the inclusion of racial justice in federal efforts to legalize marijuana. She worked closely with Senator C. Booker and Reps. B. Lee and R. Khanna around the introduction of the Marijuana Justice Act. Adesuyi, who hails from the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, is an alumna from Georgetown University, where she majored in American Studies and minored in Women’s and Gender Studies. |
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Jake Agliata ‘11Jake Agliata ‘11 is SSDP’s Outreach Coordinator for the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and International regions, where they are responsible for advising chapters and chapter leaders. Jake also oversees SSDP’s international program, including managing our engagement at the United Nations. Jake first got involved with drug policy when they co-founded the Dickinson College SSDP chapter in 2011. They spend their spare time defending the province of Skyrim from Alduin the World Eater, clinging on to hope that Kingdom Hearts III will still come out this century, and basking in the glorious afterglow of the Philadelphia Eagles’ first Super Bowl victory. |
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Betty AldworthBetty Aldworth joined the SSDP team in February 2014 as Executive Director and has since led the organization through its most substantial growth. Having worked in community relations and advocacy for medical cannabis since 2009, she served as spokesperson and advocacy director for Colorado’s 2012 Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol — the coalition responsible for legalizing, taxing, and regulating marijuana for adults in Colorado. Prior to her work in marijuana policy and medical cannabis, she was a volunteer leadership professional with some of Denver’s most well-respected nonprofit organizations, ultimately leading a team of 4,000 volunteers who contributed over 40,000 hours of service annually. |
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Irina Alexander ‘07Irina Alexander ‘07 is the Program Coordinator of At The Crossroads, an organization in San Francisco that helps unstably-housed young adults live happy and healthy lives. She is enrolled in graduate school at the University of San Francisco, studying therapy. In her spare time, she serves as a supervisor for the Zendo (a project of MAPS that helps people navigate difficult psychedelic experiences) and is in training to become an adherence rater for the MDMA trials. When she lived in DC, she was the Chair of SSDP’s Board of Directors from 2010-2012, worked for the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, volunteered as a team leader for HIPS, and advocated for DC’s Good Samaritan Law. |
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Ismail Ali ‘14Ismail Ali ‘14 is Policy & Advocacy Counsel for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), where he advocates to eliminate barriers to psychedelic therapy and research, develops and implements legal and policy strategy, and coordinates support for clinical research in Latin America and is Vice-Chair of SSDP’s Board of Directors. Ismail earned his J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he served as co-lead of Berkeley Law’s SSDP; he also worked for the ACLU of Northern California’s Criminal Justice and Drug Policy Project and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law. Ismail believes that psychedelic consciousness is a crucial piece of challenging oppression and that legal access to psychedelics is an essential part of a progressive drug policy paradigm. |
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Justine Balane ‘17Justine Balane ‘17 is an activist fighting for human rights and democracy in the Philippines. He has campaigned against oppressive policies such as forced drug testing in schools and the extrajudicial killing of people who use drugs or who are involved in the drug trade. He is also the International secretary of Akbayan Youth. |
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Will Beaton ‘16Will Beaton ‘16 is the former president and founder of both the University of North Dakota SSDP chapter and Psychedelic Club. Beaton’s hometown of Grand Forks, ND has been heavily afflicted by the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis, but Will, alongside allies, is making strides to reduce the community’s stigma associated with substance use to allow for positive policy reform and harm reduction. Having graduated last year from the wildlife biology program at UND, Beaton now hosts the Sandbagger News Harm Reduction Report, a weekly local radio show and podcast on the air at 88.3 FM in Grand Forks, ND and online on the Sandbagger News YouTube channel. |
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Leo BeletskyLeo Beletsky is an Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, where he is the founder and director of the Health in Justice Initiative and the faculty advisor for the law school chapter of SSDP. His expertise is on the public health impact of policies and policing, with focus on the opioid crisis.. |
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Lance BlockLance Block is a Florida attorney who worked to pass “Rachel’s Law” after the 2018 murderof Florida State University SSDP student Rachel Hoffman, who had been coerced into serving as an undercover confidential informant (CI) for police after being arrested for marijuana possession on campus. The legislation resulting from Block’s work is one of the very first attempts to reform police CI policies in the United States. Modeled after this legislation is North Dakota’s “Andrew’s Law,” which Block also contributed to and helped pass last year after the 2014 murder of ND college student Andrew Sadek. A passionate communicator of CI policy reform, Lance Block interviewed last year for a 60 Minutes documentary about the stories of Rachel, Andrew, and many other CIs whose lives have been endangered by insensible CI policies. |
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Juana A. Boateng ‘15Juana Akuamoah Boateng ‘15 is a founder of SSDP Ghana and a member of SSDP’s Board of Directors. She has four years experience in public relations and marketing and worked with State Protocol as a national service personnel; is a columnist in the Business and Financial Time newspaper (B&FT) where she writes on drugs, policies and human rights; is the assistant producer for Africa in Focus, a weekly radio magazine. Juana is a member of the West Africa Drug Policy Network and in 2016 launched an annual open forum on drug policy and human rights. She is a delegate of the Young Diplomats of Ghana 2016/2017 and is studying Psychology and human development at Regent University. |
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Ariefa Bockarie Kumara ‘17Ariefa Bockarie Kumara ‘17 is the founder of SSDP Sierra Leone chapter, and a proud citizen of his country. He has a deep passion for drug policy & harm reduction advocacy, universal access to education, and access to health care services. He believes in equal opportunities for people of all genders to achieve a fair and accessible quality of life. Ariefa is also the initiator of the Children’s Education Foundation, where he works to ensure that children living in deprived and vulnerable communities in have access to equal and quality education. |
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Kaitlyn BoeckerKaitlyn Boecker is a policy manager at the Drug Policy Alliance’s Office of National Affairs in Washington, D.C., where she works to advance drug policy in the DMV area and at the federal level. Kaitlyn’s interest in drug policy issues stems from witnessing the devastation the drug war has wreaked on families and communities, and from her commitment to promoting social and racial justice and ending the inequities in the US criminal justice system. Before joining DPA, Kaitlyn worked in government affairs at the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc. (a boutique lobbying firm). |
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David Borden ‘98David Borden is founder and executive director of StoptheDrugWar.org, where he led early online drug reform efforts. Borden oversaw work to repeal the Higher Education Act’s drug provision while launching SSDP into a national organization. He initiated the John W. Perry Fund scholarships, the Out from the Shadows conference series, the organization’s work on UN drug policy, and work to stop the Philippine drug war killings. He is a member of the SSDP Advisory Council, and the namesake of the “Dave Borden Friend of SSDP Award.” Borden attended Princeton and New England Conservatory (prior to the founding of SSDP). |
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Shamah Bulangis ‘17Shamah Bulangis ‘17 is one of the leaders of SSDP Philippines. She is a Filipina feminist and activist currently building a movement against the human rights abuses and state-sponsored killings brought about by the murderous war on drugs through Youth Resist, a coalition convened by young feminists against old men politics. On the side, she is (trying to be) a singer-songwriter, professional hippie, the angriest woman in Silliman University, and a “temperamental brat” who will change the world. |
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Scott Cecil ‘10Scott Cecil ‘10 is SSDP’s Operations Associate and serves as the Outreach Coordinator for HBCU campuses. He served as the Outreach Coordinator for the Southeast and Southwest Regions from 2014-17 and California in 2017. Since entering college in 2009 as a returning student, Scott has been heavily involved in student activism, turning his efforts toward drug policy and criminal justice reform after he was arrested for marijuana possession in Arizona in 2010. He was the co-founder of the first chapter of SSDP in the state of Arizona at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and elected to SSDP’s Board of Directors in 2013, a role in which he served until joining the SSDP staff in June of 2014. |
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Sam Chapman ‘09Sam Chapman ‘09 is the founding member of New Economy Consulting LLC, a firm based in Portland Oregon focused on advising entrepreneurs and investors in the cannabis industry. Sam founded Safer Spaces Portland, a coalition of Portland community members, including people who use drugs, advocating for Safe Consumption Space. Sam sits on the Minority Cannabis Business Association Policy Committee where he works on crafting and implementing model ordinances to ensure equity in ownership and employment in the cannabis industry. Sam has been working with businesses in the Kratom industry over the past year to lobby for reasonable regulations at local, state and federal levels. He holds a baccalaureate degree from the University of Oregon in Philosophy and Political Science. |
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Patricia Eugenia Chulver Benitez ‘17Patricia Eugenia Chulver Benitez ‘17 es activista por la reforma en política de drogas en Bolivia. Es artista acreditada por el Ministerio de Culturas del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, es gestora cultural y columnista del periódico digital Oxígeno.bo y directora de la Fundación Acción Semilla y presidenta de EPDS Bolivia. Estudia Comunicación Social en la Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo. Diplomada en Política de Drogas, Derechos Humanos y Salud Pública en el Centro Investigación Docencia Económica – México y Actualización en Políticas de Drogas y Nuevas Tendencias en la Región con el Centro de Estudios Seguridad Ciudadana – Universidad de Chile IDPC. Articulista, ensayista, y analista en prensa nacional e internacional. |
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Stacia Cosner ‘05Stacia Cosner ’05 has her dream job as the Deputy Director of SSDP. Since being inspired to end the war on drugs after being arrested for less than a gram of cannabis on campus at University of Maryland in 2006, she has held nearly every available role within SSDP including chapter member, chapter leader, intern, board member, outreach coordinator, associate director, deputy director, and interim executive director. Stacia is the proud captain emeritus of The One Hitters softball team, and has not missed a softball season in 23 years. The only things she loves more than SSDP are her cat Addy and her partner Chris. |
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Randon Davis ‘16Randon Davis ‘16 is an undergraduate senior at Kent State University studying Biochemistry and Business Management. He plans to continue his education in the field of molecular pharmacology focusing on drug discovery and drug design. Randy got involved with SSDP during his sophomore year at Kent State and has been the chapter president for this academic year. His primary interest with SSDP is to spread awareness about harm reduction and educate others about proper harm reduction practices. |
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Rebecca Dayan ’15Rebecca Dayan ‘15 became involved in SSDP in the spring of her freshman year when she founded Sarah Lawrence College’s chapter. She served as a Policy and Campaigns intern at the Katal Equity and Justice Center, where she worked on the Close Rikers campaign and New York state criminal justice reform, and as a community services intern at Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, where she worked in the syringe exchange and conducted street outreach. She is an HIV and Hepatitis C tester at St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction in the Bronx, where she specifically focuses on how women use their knowledge and self-empowerment to navigate sexual and substance use related risks. |
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Stephen Duke’ 09Stephen Duke ‘09 is a life-long SSDPer who first got involved with SSDP in 2009. Over the years he’s been an SSDP Chapter Leader, intern, member of the Board of Directors, and a proud member of the Alumni Association and the Sensible Society. He met Lyn Ulbricht in 2016, where he was immediately inspired by her resolve and started working with her to get students involved in fighting for her son Ross’ freedom. He now resides in Ross’ hometown of Austin, TX where he works at a digital marketing agency and continues to support the drug policy reform movement in his free time. |
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Brooke Elliott ‘15Brooke Elliott 15’s interest in harm reduction and drug policy originated in high school when several of her friends made risky drug decisions and ended up in a medical emergency. Upon coming to college and learning about SSDP, she has been able to expand that interest and has engaged in harm reduction education, supplying the school with testing kits, establishing a trip sitting hotline, hosting a naloxone training, and working with a local syringe exchange program. In the future Brooke hopes to work with US cities on Safe Consumption Spaces and other ways to mitigate the harms of current US drug use and policy. |
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Sonia EspinosaPrior to graduating with Harvard’s class of 2016, Sonia Espinosa helped co-found the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA), an organization which strives to involve underrepresented communities in the legal cannabis/hemp industry in New York. Currently Sonia is focused on the Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council, MRCC, seeking to bridge the gap between communities and local legislators. Sonia also runs www.EatMe.Land, a cannabis, femme, art, tech collective. Sonia has worked in Vice Magazine’s editorial department and NH dispensary Temescal’s edible department, and for Women Grow. |
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Orsi Fehér ‘16Orsi Fehér ‘16 earned her MSc in Communication Science at the University of Vienna this winter, where she founded the local SSDP chapter and has been our correspondent to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Orsi works as a Research Associate at her University where her projects are mainly concerned with intra-EU mobility and the psychedelic stigma in Central-Eastern Europe. She is also a board member of the Psychedelic Society of Vienna and is co-ordinating the PsyCare project. |
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Matthew FoggMatthew Fogg is a retired Chief Deputy United States Marshal. He is a speaker for Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), a nonprofit organization made up of thousands of current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities as well as non-law enforcement members who are speaking out about the failures of our existing drug policies. Matthew is also the National Second Vice President of Blacks In Government (BIG) a world class organization comprised of Federal, State and Municipal government employees. Matthew is a native of Washington, D.C., where he currently resides. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Marshall University. |
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Vilmarie Fraguada Narloch, PsyD ‘09Vilmarie Fraguada Narloch, PsyD ‘09 earned her M.A. in Counseling from Saint Mary’s University and a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University where she provided research support, co-authorship, and event planning for the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy. Her interests in drug education, access to treatment, and harm reduction have led her to numerous projects, including the provision of therapy and harm reduction services in various settings. Additionally, she has taught post-secondary courses in psychology and substance use disorders. She is the Drug Education Manager at SSDP, and the Manager of Training and Technical Assistance at Heartland Alliance Health, where she develops training for state-funded substance use disorder treatment providers. She co-facilitates psychedelic integration groups, and is co-organizer of the Chicago Psychedelic Club. |
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Kevin Franciotti’ 08Kevin Franciotti ‘08 graduated from Northeastern University in 2013 with a degree in neuroscience. As an undergraduate he completed an internship as a research assistant at Harvard Medical School working on the Phase 2 dose-response study investigating the therapeutic potential of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment of cancer related anxiety. Kevin was also one of the founders of the Northeastern chapter of SSDP, and in 2009 the group hosted and co-sponsored the Boston Ibogaine Forum. He now lives in New York City where he is enrolled in a clinical psychology graduate program at The New School for Social Research, conducting studies involving psychedelics. |
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Albert Garcia-Romeu ‘17Albert Garcia-Romeu, Ph.D. is a member of the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he studies the effects of psychedelic compounds in humans with a focus on psilocybin as an aid in the treatment of addiction. He received his doctorate in 2012 from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology where he researched self-transcendence and meditation. His current interests include clinical applications of psychedelics drugs, mindfulness, and altered states of consciousness and their underlying psychobiological mechanisms. |
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Kyle Gentle ‘15Kyle Gentle ‘15, the former Chapter Leader of SSDP at Virginia Tech, is now an alumnus working in the technology industry. During Kyle’s first year in leadership, SSDP@VT passed a Medical Amnesty policy for their campus and crafted a viral social media post to spread awareness of the change, reaching more than 35,000 social media hits in the days following its announcement. He studied system dynamics of drug prohibition during a summer research position in 2016, with a special focus on Portugal and the systemic effects of national decriminalization. Kyle believes in building empathetic community around drug policy reform, and cares for a small garden of houseplants in his apartment. |
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Nick GillespieNick Gillespie is editor at large of Reason Magazine, the libertarian magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets,” and served as editor in chief from 2000 to 2008. Gillespie is co-author of “The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America,” published in 2011. Gillespie’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Slate, Salon, Time.com, and Marketplace, among other publications; he is a frequent commentator on radio and television networks such as NPR, CNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and PBS. |
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Joseph Gilmore ‘16Joe Gilmore ‘16 is a senior studying economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. As Founder and President of SSDP at UMB since 2016, Joe mobilized students to pass and implement the successful marijuana legalization initiative. The chapter has educated their campus on the changes in marijuana legislation and responsible marijuana consumption to increase awareness, safety, and compliance on campus. They are working to implement on-campus changes to the UMB Code of Conduct policies to equalize penalties for marijuana and alcohol and allow medical marijuana on campus. As Co-Founder and Community Outreach Director for the Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council, he works with community members interested in becoming involved in marijuana policy at the state and local level. |
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James Gould ‘15James Gould ‘15 is founder of CanIExpunge, a nonprofit that provides assistance with expungement, an intern with SSDP and an intern with the Drug Policy Alliance, a contractor doing web development work with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, and chapter leader of SSDP at the University of Colorado Boulder and Psychedelic Club of Boulder, as well as a frequent volunteer with the Harm Reduction Action Center and Zendo Project. He has been a professional web developer and programmer for nearly half a decade, and is now transitioning to working heavily in drug policy. |
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Rajani GudlavalletiRajani Gudlavalleti is community organizer for Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, coordinating BRIDGES, Baltimore’s grassroots movement for safer consumption spaces. She received her master’s in public policy from Hopkins, focusing on gender-specific and racially equitable approaches to criminalized issues such as drug use and sex work. For over a decade, she has worked at the intersections of social justice, public health, and the legal system. Rajani has conducted this work through the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore City Health Department, and Open Society Foundations. |
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Nelson Guerrero ‘16Nelson Guerrero is a bilingual Ecuadorian-American who is an alumnus of City University of New York, Lehman College. In 2015 Nelson used his entrepreneurial skills to pursue a different passion: cannabis. After successfully educating his traditional, Latin family about the benefits of cannabis, Nelson co-founded the Cannabis Cultural Association in 2016. Through the CCA Nelson works to end the stigma around cannabis use by educating all people, both in English and in Spanish, about the benefits that cannabis offers. The CCA achieved §501(c)(3) non-profit status in February 2017 and, among other things, emphasizes criminal justice reform, promotes access to medical cannabis, and advocates legalization for adult-use of cannabis. |
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Ifetayo HarveyAs Communications Associate with the Drug Policy Alliance, Ifetayo Harvey focuses on developing new systems and enhancing existing ones that foster communication and collaboration across DPA’s communications team and other departments. Ifetayo came to the Drug Policy Alliance after previously interning in the media department in 2013 and later opening the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver, Colorado with a speech that focused on her experience of growing up with a parent incarcerated. Ifetayo has spoken about her experiences on National Public Radio and HuffPost Live. She is a native of Charleston, South Carolina and has a B.A in History and African Studies from Smith College. |
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Heather HasseHeather Hasse is the chair of the New York NGO Committee on Drugs, organized under the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the UN (CoNGO), which promotes global NGO participation in UN processes around drugs and helped lead efforts to form the Civil Society Task Force for UNGASS 2016, giving a voice in UNGASS to drug policy NGOs from all over the world. Heather frequently speaks and writes about civil society advocacy and international drug policy reform in the Americas and Europe. Heather holds a law degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law and is currently earning an LL.M degree at Columbia Law School, concentrating on international law & diplomacy, public health law and drug policy. |
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Mikayla Hellwich ‘10Mikayla Hellwich ‘10 was a chapter leader at the University of Maryland, College Park for 3 years before putting down roots in Washington, D.C. She’s now the Speakers Bureau & Media Relations Director for the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, an organization of criminal justice professionals who advocate for drug legalization and criminal justice reform. She’s the founder and executive director of DrugStory, a new web-based harm reduction tool for drug consumers. She graduated in 2010 with a B.S. in Plant Sciences. |
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Todd HerremansTodd Herremans attended Saginaw Valley State University, a small Division II school, where he studied Kinesiology and played football. Todd is an 11 year NFL veteran, playing his first 10 years in Philadelphia where he was drafted in 2005. In 2012, Todd started a multi-charitable organization called the Herremans Foundation with a mission “to help where help is needed…”. Todd retired after a brief stint with the Colts in 2015, but he had witnessed the policies of the NFL drug program for 11 years, making him a vocal cannabis advocate. He is a founding member of Athletes for C.A.R.E. and a member of the NFL Steering Committee with Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. |
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Amy Hildebrand ‘16Amy Hildebrand ‘16 is finishing up her undergraduate degree at DePaul University in Chicago, where she majors in American Studies and History. Following a year of investigating wrongful convictions cases with Chicago Innocence Center, she re-established the SSDP chapter at DePaul in 2016 and began an internship with the Illinois Cannabis Industry Association. Since then she has happily allowed SSDP to consume her existence, leading the chapter to host the Midwest Regional Conference in 2016 and investing her time in campus and statewide outreach. Amy is now an SSDP State Policy Intern working on the cannabis legalization effort in IL. |
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Robert Hofmann ‘16Robert Hofmann ‘16 is a field organizer for Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s reelection campaign and currently serves on SSDP’s Board of Directors. Rob joined the drug policy reform movement in 2016 as a member of the SUNY New Paltz chapter, and has engaged in several lobbying efforts with New York State SSDP chapters and community action groups. Rob currently spends his spare time exploring Providence and finishing up The West Wing. |
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Andrew Hood ‘15Andrew Hood ‘16 is a mathematics student at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been heavily involved in the UT Austin chapter for three years. Some of his accomplishments include coordinating volunteering with the local underground needle exchange, the Austin Harm Reduction Coalition; organizing harm reduction kit making parties; a 4/20 medical amnesty awareness bakesale; an overdose awareness poster campaign; and setting up fundraising parties in West Campus every semester which have made thousands of dollars in profit. |
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Eleanor Martha Hulm ‘15Eleanor Martha Hulm ‘15 is a student of Physics & Astronomy at Dublin CIty University where she has lead DCU SSDP as they have initiated a college referendum which resulted in the Student’s Union changing their stance on cannabis policy, hosted SSDP Ireland’s national conference, and initiated the SeshSafe campaign, extending drug checking to all Irish colleges and growing SeshSafe into a nationwide group. Eleanor also worked, alongside the Psychedelic Society of Ireland & Help not Harm, to established Ireland’s first harm reduction spaces at two Irish festivals. She has been working on a drug checking invention called the SeshWand. |
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Kat Humphries ‘10Kat Humphries ‘10 serves as the Programs Director for the Harm Reduction Action Center (HRAC) in Denver, CO after nearly 4 years working in marijuana regulatory compliance. As Programs Director, Kat assists in facilitating HRAC’s syringe access program and conduct HIV/HCV/STI testing for participants during drop in hours. As Director of Data Evaluations, she tracks and analyze all syringe access data, evaluates program outcomes, writes grant reports to funders, and creates compelling data visualizations. Kat has advocated extensively for Denver’s proposed Supervised Use Site (SUS), organized successful community forums around SUS, and collaborates with other SUS/SCS initiatives nationwide on messaging and PR. |
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Stephanie Izquieta ‘13Stephanie Izquieta ‘13 comes to us from a diverse background that spans across internet policy reform, drug reform activism, and event planning. As a passionate activist at Binghamton University, she was the founder and president of Binghamton’s SSDP Chapter, a TEDx Organizer, and a Google brand ambassador. Currently, she is a membership coordinator at the Marijuana Policy Project. Prior to MPP, Stephanie worked at Future Colossal, an award-winning innovation lab for experiential technologies in advertising, entertainment, and art. Her dream is to organize a music festival that speaks honestly to young people about drug use and harm reduction. Stephanie earned a bachelor of arts in Philosophy, Politics, & Law from Binghamton University. |
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Mike JamesMike James is a running back with the Detroit Lions. Mike entered the NFL in 2013, drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His history-making game against the Seattle Seahawks lead him to be officially declared “a force to be reckoned with”, but the following week Mike suffered a season-ending injury. Back on the field, trauma to his body continued, including multiple concussions. Mike began to research natural forms of effective relief for chronic pain, brain injury recovery, and cognitive function maintenance. He is now an evangelist for medical cannabis as an alternative to addictive opioids and CTE medications. |
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Samantha KerrA peer passionate about anything or anyone who is a current or former drug user Samantha Kerr has been working in the field of harm reduction for about a year, although she has been using harm reduction for years. Sam is a member of the Bmore POWER team as Communications, Data Administrator and Outreach Worker. |
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Michael KrawitzA disabled United States Air Force Veteran [Sergeant, 1981 – 1986], Michael Krawitz serves as Executive Director and a member of the board for Veterans For Medical Cannabis Access [VMCA]. With the help of Michael’s intervention, the VA has revised its pain management system removing “pain contracts”, which restricted medical cannabis use, in favor of a policy based upon informed consent. Leading VMCA, Michael successfully negotiated the first VA medical cannabis policy in 2010, oversees the nationwide effort to add Post Traumatic Stress as a qualifying condition for state medical marijuana laws, and leads the working group on medicinal access to cannabis in the final stages of the Critical Review process of the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence. |
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Eric LachicaEric Lachica coordinates the US Filipinos for Good Governance’s campaign for S. 1055, “The Philippine Human Rights Accountability and Counternarcotics Act.” He is Executive Director of the American Coalition for Filipino Veterans Inc. and organizer of US Medicare PH Inc. Lachica has advocated on veterans, retiree, and other human needs issues since the ’90s, winning recognition and hundreds of millions in benefits for Filipino Americans and others. From 1986-1987, following the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship, Lachica was Information Officer at the Philippines Consulate in Los Angeles for the Corazon Aquino administration. He has been a White House Veterans’ Day Breakfast guest of Barack Obama and State Dinner guest of George W. Bush. |
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Michael Liszewski ‘08Michael Liszewski ‘08 (J.D. UDC Law 2011) is an attorney and the principal/founder of the Enact Group, a lobbying and consulting firm focusing on drug policy. Prior to forming Enact, Michael was the government affairs director at Americans for Safe Access. At ASA, he was instrumental in lobbying Congress to pass the Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment and first articulated the legal theory that has enabled it protect patients, cultivators, and dispensaries from federal prosecution. Michael has lobbied and offered testimony in over a dozen states on medical marijuana issues. He currently advises organizations such as SSDP and DPA on federal issues. |
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Arturo Lua Castillo ‘15Arturo Lua Castillo ‘15 is the President of the UAlbany Chapter of SSDP where he is majoring in both Economics and Latin American Studies. The focus of his work as an activist revolves around the impacts of policy and economics in Latin America. |
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Rishi Malhotra ‘08Rishi Malhotra ‘08 restarted the UC Berkeley Chapter of SSDP in 2008. He hosted the West Coast Conference that year and was involved in local and state initiative campaigns related to medical marijuana and criminal justice reform. Since then he has done digital marketing at various agencies, nonprofits, and technology companies. He now runs a digital marketing agency in Brooklyn, NY. |
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Oriana MayorgaOriana Mayorga ‘13 is a community organizer for Citizen Action of New York’s Hudson Valley chapter. She is revolutionizing electoral politics, helping the most impacted people build power and advocating for racial justice. Oriana is currently working with others to organize and prioritize the needs of people of color in the psychedelic community. It is her life mission to ensure that all low-income, people of color have equal access to psychedelic medicine in the near future. |
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Samantha Melius ‘15Samantha Melius ‘15 is focused on advocacy for self care and mental health, sustainable agriculture (especially industrial hemp), and drug policy reform. She is certified in mental health first aid and is a Reiki I Practitioner. She recently graduated from Kent State with a B.S. in conservation biology and a minor in sustainability. She creates unique crafts that go along with self-care and practices yoga and meditation and currently works at a certified organic farm. |
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Sarah Merrigan’ 13Sarah Merrigan ‘13 discovered SSDP as a college freshman and established the first chapter in Nebraska. After her election to SSDP’s Board of Directors, she helped chair the International Outreach Committee and the DARE Committee. Sarah also represented SSDP at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in 2015 and 2016 and helped coordinate SSDP’s first Model UN event. She now lives in Denver and works as the Engagement Director for the podcast This Week in Drugs. |
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William Miller JrWilliam Glen Miller Jr is the Bmore-POWER Coordinator. He is a person with lived experience who educates and advocates in his city of Baltimore and around the nation. He has been doing harm reduction work for the last three years and encourages people to be treated as human beings, so they can be that voice and advocate for themselves. |
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William Miller SrLifelong Baltimorean and national spokesperson for harm reduction, William Miller Sr is dedicated to saving lives. For 63 years, William Sr has felt the impacts of drugs in his community and family. In 2016, he founded Bmore POWER (Peers Offering Wellness Education and Resources), which he considers his greatest achievement. He provides education and organizing services through Bmore POWER, BRIDGES Coalition, and Communities United. Previously, he served on the Greater Baltimore HIV Planning Council as chair of the People Living with HIV and AIDS Committee and as a peer counselor for the mental health organization, People Encouraging People. |
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Luis Montoya ‘16Luis Montoya ‘16 joined SSDP after a being caught with personal amount of cannabis. He attended SSDP2016 and was blown away by how many students were making a real impact in their communities. He was president of the Florida International chapter for a year, campaigning for medical marijuana in Florida and petitioning the police chief to initiate a Naloxone Carry requirement for FIUPD. He now works as an SSDP Outreach Coordinator out of the SSDP Denver Office, helping students organize in the Southeast and Southwest Regions of the U.S. |
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David MoonDavid Moon is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, where he serves on the Judiciary Committee and as Chair of the Juvenile Law Subcommittee. He has spent over a decade working as a grassroots organizer and campaign manager for political candidates and causes ranging from mass transit and immigrant rights to criminal justice and civil liberties. David was elected in 2014 as a member of the Democratic Party and lives in Takoma Park. He is the lead sponsor of cannabis legalization legislation and previously passed a bill allowing for expungement of simple possession of marijuana convictions. |
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Amanda Muller ‘10Amanda Muller ‘10 serves as the Overdose Prevention Coordinator within the Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health at the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF). Her primary goals include developing and implementing a statewide overdose prevention program, increasing access to naloxone, and incorporating harm reduction into substance use treatment facilities. Amanda has also worked with needle exchange and infectious disease programs at local health departments and the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. Amanda got involved with SSDP at FSU in 2010, and served on SSDP’s Board of Directors from 2013 through 2015. |
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Kat Murti ‘09Kat Murti ‘09 is a libertarian, feminist, and activist. She has been actively involved in SSDP since January 2009, and currently serves on the Board of Directors and co-chairs the SSDP-DARE and Fundraising committees. She also edits the SSDP Mosaic. Kat was named an Alumni All Star in December of 2010, a Spotlighted Alum in January of 2012, and the 2016 A. Kathryn Parker Outstanding Alumnus in Service to SSDP. In addition to her work with SSDP, Kat served as Bay Area Regional Director of the Proposition 19 campaign, and has worked at the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. She graduated from UC-Berkeley and Oaksterdam University. |
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Clark NeilyClark Neily is vice president for criminal justice at the Cato Institute. His areas of interest include constitutional law, overcriminalization, civil forfeiture, police accountability, and gun rights. Neily is the author of Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government. Before joining Cato in 2017, Neily was a senior attorney and constitutional litigator at the Institute for Justice and director of the Institute’s Center for Judicial Engagement. Neily received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review. |
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Jason Ortiz’ 08Jason Ortiz ‘08 is a former SSDP Board of Directors member and an alumnus of the UConn Storrs SSDP Chapter. He works for Hartford, CT Councilwoman and Minority Leader Wildaliz Bermudez where he was able to draft, introduce, and pass with unanimous endorsement a resolution to support cannabis legalization with racial equity in employment and ownership. Jason is the Vice President of the Minority Cannabis Business Association, the only national trade association comprised of and working for people of color. He was project lead for the MCBA Policy Summits and drafting MCBA’s model legislation. He is President of CT Puerto Rican Agenda, a statewide grassroots organization seeking to mobilize the 250,000 Puerto Ricans in CT toward justice for Puerto Rico. |
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Lauren Padgett ‘13Lauren Padgett ‘13 is the Development Director at SSDP. Her responsibilities include major gift cultivation, grant writing, and event planning. She is a board member of DrugStory, a web-based harm reduction nonprofit founded by SSDP alumni. Lauren joined the SSDP team in 2014 after getting her start in drug policy by advocating to expand Washington, DC’s medical cannabis program and working on the membership team at Marijuana Policy Project. In the summer, Lauren plays softball with the famous One Hitters. |
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Jake Plowden ‘15Jake Plowden ‘15 is deputy director and co-founder of The Cannabis Cultural Association and an alumnus of CUNY Baruch College’s SSDP Chapter. He co-founded the CCA in 2016 in response to the lack of diversity and inclusion in the growing cannabis industry. He has coordinated and organized several events for cannabis education, entrepreneurship, advocacy/activism, and the history of the War On Drugs’ effects on communities of color. Jake and the CCA are currently plaintiffs suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and The Drug Enforcement Agency. alongside Alexis Bortell, Marvin Washington, Jose Belen, and Jagger Cote, for the removal of cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act. |
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Madhav Pulle ‘17Madhav Pulle ‘17 is sophomore at Reed College studying biology with a focus in marine and conservation biology. He became involved with SSDP in the last year after years of interest in drug policy reform and the sociobiology of the drug war. He is particularly interested in how early childhood trauma impacts individuals on an epigenetic and psychological level and how that affects one’s relationships with drugs. By getting involved with SSDP, he hopes to be able to use his personal experience to advocate for people with mental health conditions who use drugs. |
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Jennifer Purdon ‘14Jennie Purdon ‘14 is researcher, artist, and political organizer at UConn. She has been the chapter leader of UConn SSDP since 2015. She currently works as the Assistant Study Coordinator for the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy site at UConn Health Center. Within her lab she focuses on racial-trauma and recently finished conducting and writing a Review on Minority Inclusion in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy (submitted for publication). She is a DanceSafe Intern, helping develop and implement the DanceSafe Ambassadors Program. For the past 11 years, UConn SSDP has lobbied and pushed for cannabis legalization, and they are in the works of starting a new peer education campaign. |
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Dan RiffleDan Riffle is an attorney and policy analyst advising members of Congress on progressive healthcare reform. Prior to his work on the hill, he was a prosecutor in Southeast Ohio and the federal lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project. Dan proudly serves as co-captain of the One Hitters softball team. |
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Emma Rodriguez ‘10Emma G. Rodríguez Romero ‘10 studied Political Science and Public Administration at the National Autonomous University of Mexico where she is leader and founder of the EPSD Mexico chapter. She is a young researcher at UNAM investigating use and abuse of legal and illegal drugs, sexuality, body and gender. In 2017, she was awarded with the prize of the youth of Mexico City, in the category of promotion and defense of human rights, for the work she has done promoting the right to health protection, equality before the law, and the right to receive information on prevention and harm reduction associated with the use of psychoactive substances. |
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Tori Scharadin ‘17Born and raised in Nevada, Tori Scharadin ‘17 is a student of Economics at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He serves as a Lee Business School senator for the 48th session in undergraduate government. He’s executive director of UNLV’s SSDP. He is an undergraduate data & analytics project manager for UNLV’s Research and Creativity Infrastructure Faculty Committee. For a career beyond college, he hopes to use his experiences and education from UNLV to help private firms succeed through entrepreneurial consultation. |
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Shayla Schlossenberg ‘16Shayla Schlossenberg ‘16 is the Mobile Services Manager at HIPS, overseeing outreach to communities of drug users and sex workers in Washington DC and previously worked at St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a syringe exchange in New York City. Shayla completed their undergraduate capstone project, an oral history of the organization and a case study of service provision for marginalized populations, at 上海心生, Shanghai Commercial Sex Worker and Men Who Have Sex With Men Center. Shayla also founded SSDP at New York University, Shanghai campus. They possess a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Political Science with a minor in Molecular Biology. |
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Danielle Schumacher ‘02Danielle Schumacher ‘01 is President & CEO of THC Staffing Group, the first cannabis recruiting firm and the only focused on creating a more inclusive and professional industry. She earned a degree in Anthropology in 2004 at the University of Illinois where she founded chapters of NORML and SSDP, was appointed Executive Director of Illinois NORML, and held the Youth Seat on the NORML Board of Directors. Danielle was recruited to head the Cannabis Action Network and, as the first Chancellor of Oaksterdam University, established America’s first cannabis college. She is currently office manager for renowned physician Frank Lucido MD and Maria Mangini PhD FNP. Danielle was recently named the 2018 Visionary Woman of the Year by The Women’s Visionary Council. |
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Sarah SeymourSarah Seymour is a Project Coordinator at the Health in Justice Initiative at Northeastern University School of Law. She’s interested in the impact of law and policy on public health, with a particular focus on the opioid crisis and community mental health. |
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Thomas Silverstein ‘05Thomas Silverstein ‘05 is a proud SSDP alumnus and civil rights attorney whose practice focuses on housing discrimination. He was a member and chapter leader of the SSDP chapter at the College of William & Mary and at the University of Virginia School of Law. Thomas served on SSDP’s Board of Directors from 2011 to 2013, including a one year stint as Chair. He has worked at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national, nonprofit civil rights legal organization, since he graduated from law school in 2013. He is a skilled cruciverbalist. |
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Sue Sisley, MDSue Sisley, MD is an Arizona-based physician practicing Internal Medicine & Psychiatry. She works as Independent Medical Director for medical cannabis license holders in 17 states, serves as President of Scottsdale Research Institute & Site Principal Investigator for the only FDA-approved randomized controlled trial examining safety/efficacy of whole plant marijuana in combat veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD. Dr. Sisley is on faculty at Colorado State University & Humboldt State University, and Senior Fellow at Thomas Jefferson University Lambert Center. Her areas of current IRB-approved research include supervising studies evaluating cannabis for pain management, as substitution therapy for opioids, and edibles for safety. |
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Harriet SmithHarriet Smith is executive director for the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition. She brings over ten years experience in health advocacy and education, harm reduction oriented homelessness service provision, and social justice organizing from the Youth Empowered Society and Power Inside — two of Baltimore’s harm reduction drop-in centers. She received her master’s degree in gender and women’s studies with a concentration in health and sexuality from Towson University where she focused on reproductive justice and the intersection of racism and sexism on health. She is committed to expanding harm reduction rhetoric and practice to sex work, self-injury, and housing. She is a trainer and advisory board member for Baltimore Racial Justice Action and a founding member of Showing Up for Racial Justice Baltimore. |
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Eric Sterling ‘99Eric E. Sterling ‘99 has been a leader in the effort to legalize marijuana and other drugs for over 40 years, beginning as a student. In 1989 he founded the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation to advocate for drug legalization and sentencing reform. In 2017, SSDP presented him with its renamed Eric Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award. He received NORML’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He has been a key supporter of SSDP since its inception and has served on the Board of Directors since 2004. Eric was an assistant public defender from 1976 to 1979. From 1979 to 1989, he was an Assistant Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. He has been an adjunct professor at American University and George Washington University, and lectures widely. |
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Katie Stone ‘08Katie Stone ‘09 was a chapter leader at UC Davis and will culminate her term as SSDP Board Member in March of 2018. Impacted by the drug war in her childhood, she has been organizing for social change ever since. In hopes of carrying on the legacy of social justice, environmental stewardship, and conscious capitalism in the rapidly growing cannabis industry, Katie moved to Northern California in 2010 and has focused much of her work on catalyzing the Regenerative Cannabis movement. She is currently in her second semester of the Transformative Studies PhD program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where her research focuses on philosophy, anthropology, and exploring the impacts and opportunities of the Psychedelic Renaissance. |
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Elise Szabo ‘14Elise Szabo ‘14 joined the SSDP staff in June 2017 as an Outreach Coordinator. They work out of the Oakland office guiding the chapters in SSDP’s Pacific region and connecting them to the rest of SSDP’s network. Elise first got involved in SSDP as a freshman studying Philosophy at Kent State University. After leading Kent’s SSDP chapter, Elise served a short term on the Board of Directors before joining staff. |
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Maia SzalavitzMaia Szalavitz is author/co-author of seven books, most recently the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. She has written about addiction, neuroscience & drug policy for publications ranging from High Times to the New York Times. |
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Riley Tillitt ‘16Riley Tillitt ‘16 is a junior at Yale University majoring in History and Ethics, Politics, & Economics. He currently leads SSDP at Yale and Yale Model Congress. During his time as President of Yale SSDP, they successfully lobbied Yale to adopt a medical amnesty policy for drug use; hosted a debate on drug policy with several candidates for governor, the first gubernatorial debate of its kind in the nation; and hosted SSDP’s Northeast Regional Conference. This past summer, Riley worked at the Drug Policy Alliance in Washington, D.C. as a legislative affairs intern, where he worked to oppose federal intervention in state cannabis operations and protect the Medicaid expansion for its importance in covering addiction treatment. |
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Sam Tracy’ 09Sam Tracy ‘09 got his start in drug policy reform as a member of UConn SSDP, and ran a successful campaign for Student Body President on a platform including drug policy. He served on SSDP’s board of directors from 2012 to 2014, including a term as chairman with major turning points such as the hiring of Betty Aldworth and the creation of the Board of Trustees. He now works at marijuana consulting firm 4Front Ventures, works as the director of the Connecticut Coalition to Regulate Marijuana, serves on the board of Marijuana Majority, and is the CEO and Co-Host of This Week in Drugs. |
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Tyler Williams ‘11Tyler Williams ’11 is the Outreach Coordinator for the Heartland, Midwest, and Mountain regions, where he is responsible for advising and developing chapters and chapter leaders. Tyler started his involvement with SSDP as a freshman at the University of Connecticut, and stayed heavily involved throughout his college career, serving first as the group’s CFO and subsequently as the President of the chapter. During his time, Tyler lobbied to help enact Connecticut’s medical marijuana program, lobbied against drug free school zones and mandatory minimums, and successfully ran a campaign that pushed the University of Connecticut Undergraduate Student Government to pass a statement of position in support of taxing and regulating marijuana in the state. |
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Rachel Wissner ‘11Rachel Wissner ’11 is the Secretary of SSDP’s Board of Directors, a Project Coordinator at the New York Public Interest Research Group, and a SUNY New Paltz alum. At SUNY New Paltz, Rachel worked on the successful Ban the Box Campaign which resulted in a SUNY Board of Trustees’ vote to end discrimination of college applicants with prior criminal convictions. As full-time organizer with NYPIRG, Rachel organizes college students around several social justice campaigns including environmental justice, higher education affordability and access, and hunger and homelessness aid and outreach. |
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Undrea WrightA United States Army veteran, Undrea Wright served in the military, government, and corporate private sector, leading in surveillance and counter-surveillance operations and small unit tactics expertise and training for intelligence agencies. He conducted federal police officer work for the Department of Energy, arrest and detention training for intelligence agencies, declassification of nuclear documents, and personal protection for VIPs. Activated by seeing young African Americans incarcerated for cannabis possession, he served as Chair of Maryland ASA, Vice-President of Maryland NORML, and Secretary and co-founder of Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition; he is a devoted member of MCBA. Undrea currently serves as Regional Sales Manager as a partner in Mission Maryland and as Director of Training for 4Front Advisors. |
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Rachelle Yeung ‘12Rachelle Yeung ‘12 is a drug policy expert and veteran of the marijuana reform movement. Currently, she is committed to advancing the Drug Policy Alliance’s agenda for harm reduction and the decriminalization of all drugs in Maryland. Previously, Rachelle has served as Public Policy Counsel for the ACLU of Maryland, Government Affairs Manager for Vicente Sederberg, and Maryland Political Director for the Marijuana Policy Project. Rachelle is on the MCBA board of directors and co-founded the podcast “This Week in Drugs.” Her favorite sports team is the Washington, D.C. One Hitters. |
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Matt Zernhelt ‘05Matt Zernhelt, Esq. ‘05 is the Executive Director of the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, a restorative justice organization providing processes for people to collectively and effectively prevent and resolve conflicts and crime, and previously represented clients at Maryland Legal Aid. He has successfully argued in Maryland’s Court of Appeals and Court of Special Appeals and is practicing in the United States Supreme Court. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law; a co-founder of the Baltimore Action Legal Team, providing legal support to community organizations leading the movement for race equity in Baltimore; on the advisory board of Baltimore Youth Arts; and a member of the Leadership Council of the Open Society Institute – Baltimore. |
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Jeffrey ZuckerJeffrey M. Zucker is a serial entrepreneur with experience in a wide range of industries including real estate, cannabis, film, technology, ice hockey, and hospitality. In 2015, Jeffrey founded Green Lion Partners, a hybrid operating and holdings company focused on early stage development in the cannabis industry. Through Green Lion, he serves as President of Dipstick Vapes and LeafList. Jeffrey was recently selected to serve on the Board of Marijuana Policy Project and has devoted substantial time and resources to helping pass a MMJ bill in his home state of South Carolina. Jeffrey makes all of his business decisions with combined goals of profit and purpose, which includes a desire to carry on his late father’s mission to improve the world. |
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The Students for Sensible Drug Policy International Conference
