Christine DeJesus

Director of Cultivation

Galenas

Christine DeJesus is Director of Cultivation and General Manager of Galenas – a tier two Certified Kind cannabis grower with operations in Ohio and Michigan.

Christine designed the organic production methods for over 40,000 cannabis plants and is in her fifth year with the company. Before entering cannabis agriculture, she ran a farm for Great Lakes Brewing Company, wrote the horticulture curriculum for the Cleveland School of Cannabis, and co-founded the non-profit organization, The Midwest CannaWomen.

She is a columnist for Cannabis Business Times, and spent many years in cannabis and environmental activism, most notably with the Marijuana Policy Project. She is a graduate of Kent State University and has a Master’s Degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Bonnie Rabin

Instructor

University of Cincinnati

Bonnie Rabin is a skilled college professor with a history of working in the medical marijuana industry, social work and education. She loves curriculum design, instruction, student mentoring, strategic planning, management, and leadership. Her professional education includes a BA in Sociology fro...

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Karen O’Keefe

Director of State Policies

Marijuana Policy Project/MPP Foundation

As the director of state policies at the Marijuana Policy Project, Karen O’Keefe manages grassroots and direct lobbying efforts in state legislatures for the nation’s largest cannabis policy reform organization. Karen is an attorney who has been with MPP since 2003 and is perhaps the foremost expe...

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Assemblymember Tremaine S. Wright

Former Member, New York State Assembly

Former New York State Representative

Tremaine S. Wright is a former member of the New York State Assembly who thereafter, served as the first Director of the DFS Statewide Office of Financial Inclusion and Empowerment. Ms. Wright is an attorney, entrepreneur, and activist who is a second-generation Bedford Stuyvesant resident invested ...

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Geoff Korff

CEO

Galenas

Geoff has been an advocate for patient rights in Ohio for more than a decade. As an attorney, he wrote some of the first language that was submitted to the Ohio attorney general to create a medical marijuana regulatory structure in the state. Geoff is broadly experienced and previously served as the...

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