Drug Policy Alliance

Speaker List

We are excited to announce some of the speakers that will present at this years conference.  Please continue to check this list, as more speakers are added it will be updated.

Opening Plenary Remarks:

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson

Closing Plenary Remarks:

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson

Confirmed for major sessions:

Former Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge Castaneda

California Assembly Member Tom Ammiano

Ron Albers, Judge for San Francisco, Superior Court of California

Patricia Allard, Deputy Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

Wyndi Anderson

Apinun Aramrattana, Assistant Professor, Chiang Mai University

Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel- Washington Office, The Brennan Center for Justice

Asha Bandele, Director, Advocacy Grants Program, Drug Policy Alliance

Jeanne Barr, Chair, Department of History & Social Studies, Francis W. Parker School

Alice Bell, Overdose Prevention Project Coordinator, Prevention Point Pittsburgh

Russ Belville, Outreach Coordinator, NORML

Anna Berg, Program Coordinator & Staff Therapist, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Gretchen Bergman, Executive Director, A New PATH

Ruth Bernstein, Principal, EMC Research

John Berry, Video Production Manager, Marijuana Policy Project

Jeanne Block, Project Coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance - New Mexico

Mary Jane Borden, DrugSense/MAP, Inc.

Holly Bradford, Founder/Technical Advisor, Korsang

Fred Brason II, President, Project Lazarus

Scott Bullock, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice

Jorge Castaneda, Professor

Holly Catania, Project Director, International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment

Wendy Chapkis, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Maine

Reaksmey Chen, Korsang Satrey, Korsang

Peter Christ, LEAP

Allan Clear, Executive Director, Harm Reduction Coalition

Luciano Colonna, Consultant, Public Health/Policy

Caroline Conzelman

Anastacia Cosner, Outreach Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Dave Daniels, Health Educator, New Mexico Department of Health

Nabarun Dasgupta, , UNC Public Health/Project Lazarus

Steve DeAngelo, Executive Director, Harborside Health Center

Patt Denning, Director of Clinical Services, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Marcela Diaz, Executive Director, Somos Un Pueblo Unido

Rick Doblin, Executive Director, MAPS

Margaret Dooley Sammuli, Deputy State Director, Southern California, Drug Policy Alliance

Don Duncan, California Director, Americans for Safe Access

Steven Fox, Director of State Campaigns, Marijuana Policy Project

Joan Friedland, Immigration Policy Director, National Immigration Law Center

Guy Gambill, Veterans' advocate

Dale Gieringer, Director, California NORML

David Glowka, Drug Policy Alliance

Debby Goldsberry, President, Berkeley Patients Group

Suzanne Gollin, Angelica Foundation

Samuel Gonzalez, International Consultant

Roger Goodman, State Representative, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers

Paul Goodwin, President, Goodwin Simon Strategic Research

Major Griffin-Gracy, Executive Director, Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project (TGI Justice Project)

Roland, Griffiths, Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Charles Grob, Psychiatrist, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Ricky Gunawan, Programme Director, Community Legal Aid Institute

Mark Haden, Clinical Supervisor, Vancouver Coastal Health

Ronald, Harris, Board Member, Different Avenues

LaResse Harvey, Policy Director, A Better Way Foundation

Randolph Hencken, Director of Communication, MAPS

Norris Henderson, Executive Director, V.O.T.E.

Alison Holcomb, Drug Policy Director, ACLU of Washington

Aaron Houston, Director of Government Relations, Marijuana Policy Project

Terri Hurst, Policy Analyst, Colorado Rural Health Center

Anwar Jeewa, Director, Minds Alive

Jeff Jones, Executive Director, Patient ID Center

Lorenzo Jones, Executive Director, A Better Way Foundation

Howard Josepher, President & CEO, Exponents, Inc.

Michael Jourdan, Editor, Centre of Alcohol and Drug Research

Jeffrey Kamlet, FASAM, DBAM, Jeffrey D. Kamlet, MD, LLC

Robert Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project

Kathleen Kane-Willis, Director, Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy, Roosevelt University

Matthew Kirkpatrick, Student, Columbia University

Daniel Kushlick, Head of Policy and Communications, Transform Drug Policy Foundation

W. La Luz, Researcher

Nsombi Lambright, ACLU of Missouri

Amber Langston, Outreach Director, Midwest & Southern Regions, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Richard Lee, President, Oaksterdam University

Ruben Leyva, Program Director, Youth Development, Inc.

Bruce Livingston, Executive Director, Marin Institute

Naomi Long, Director, DC Metro, Drug Policy Alliance

Ernesto Lopez Portillo, Executive Director, Institute for Security and Democracy (INSYDE)

Frank Lucido, Physician, Medical Board Watch

Alejandro Madrazo, Professor, CIDE

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Program Director, Open Society Institute

David Marsh, Medical Director, Vancouver Coastal Health

William Matthews, Harm Reduction Coalition

William McColl, Political Director, AIDS Action

Tommy McDonald, Deputy Director of Communications, Drug Policy Alliance

Dennis McKenna, Co-founder, Director of Ethnopharmacology, Heffter Research Institute

Mary McLemore, Researcher, Human Rights Watch

Hilary McQuie, Western Director, Harm Reduction Coalition

Anibal Mejia, Clinical Coordinator, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Daniel Mejia, Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Maureen Meyer, Associate for Mexico and Central America, Washington Office on Latin America

Patrick Mickala, Nganga, Iboga House

Melissa Milam Meek

Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University

Valerie Mojeiko, Deputy Director, MAPS

Orlando Morales

Onaje Muid, Clinical Associate Director, Reality House, Inc.

Mary Murphy, Suboxone Program Coordinator, New Mexico Department of Health

Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Leonard Noisette, Director, Criminal Justice Fund, Open Society Institute

Philip Northcutt, Veterans and Patients Advocate

Baby Nurmaya, Coordinator, STIGMA Foundation

Annie Oak, Women's Visionary Congress

Karen O'Keefe, Director of State Policies, Marijuana Policy Project

Robert O'Rourke, Representative, City of El Paso

Joao Pedro Padua, Attorney/Director of Legal Affairs, Psicotropicus

Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

Anthony Papa, Communications Specialist, Drug Policy Alliance

Tony Payan, Associate Professor, University of Texas El Paso

Jonathan Perri, Outreach Director, Western Region, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Jennifer Plummer, Therapist, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Nicole Porter, State Advocacy Coordinator, The Sentencing Project

Meghan Ralston, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance

Daniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition

Craig Reinarman, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tina Reynolds, Co-Founder & Chair, Women on the Rise Telling Her Story (WORTH)

Roberto Ricci, Manager, Illicit Drug Market

David Rogers, Partnership for Safety and Justice

Jorge Javier Romero, Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Collective for an Integrated Drug Policy

Vanessa Romero, Student, University of Texas El Paso Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Robin Room, Professor, Scholl of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre

Leah Rorvig, Medical Student, UC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Medical Program

Marsha Rosenbaum, Director Emerita, Drug Policy Alliance

Stephen Ross, Director, Substance Abuse Division, Bellevue Hospital, NYU School of Medicine

Maureen Rule,

Arthur Salazar, Health Educator, Department of Health

Edwin Sanders, Senior Servant, Metropolitan Interdenominational Church

Catherine (Kay) Sanford, Epidemiologist, Project Lazarus

Peter Sarosi, Drug Policy Program Director, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

Sebastian Saville, Executive Director, Release

Gabriel Sayegh, Director, State Organizing and Policy Project, Drug Policy Alliance

Jimmy Schrock, Harm Reduction Program Coordinator, New Mexico AIDS Services

David Schwartz, NV Campaign Manager, Marijuana Policy Project

Steph Sherer, Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access

Jorge Luis Sierra, Editorial director Latino Media Projects LLC, Latino Media Projects LLC

Matthew Simon, Executive Director, New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy

Constance Sisk, Private Music Instructor; Personal Gardener; Sound Technician's Assistant, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, College of William & Mary

F. Aaron Smith, California Policy Director, Marijuana Policy Project

Grant Smith, Drug Policy Alliance

Kathleen Staudt, Professor of Political Science

Eric Sterling, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

Maia Szalavitz, Journalist

Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Institute

Anjali Taneja, Physician, CureThis.org/National Physicians Alliance

Whitney Taylor, Executive Director, New England Policy Advocates

Laura Thomas, Deputy State Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Jennifer Thompson, Program Director, PB&J Family Services

Clovis Thorn, Managing Director, Development, Drug Policy Alliance

Tamar Todd, Staff Attorney, Drug Policy Alliance

Kirk Tousaw, Executive Director, Beyond Prohibition Foundation

Sanho Tree, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia

Marcela Turati, Journalist, Red de Periodistas de a Pie

Mason Tvert, Executive Director, SAFER

Jasmine Tyler, Deputy Director, Office of National Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance

Angie Vachio

Brian Vicente, Sensible Colorado

Matt Vogel, Educator, The University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Sidney Weintraub, Holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Lynn Wenger, Senior Project Director, RTI International

Dan Werb, Researcher, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Rubin, Whitmore II, Film Director, Flex Your Rights

Teresa Williams

Paul Wright, Editor, Prison Legal News

Bill Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Markman

Dominick Zurlo, NM-DOH Harm Reduction Program Manager, New Mexico Department of Health