Kassandra Frederique

Executive Director

Kimberly Thomas

Chief Operating Officer

Paul Dana

Managing Director of Development and Political Strategy

Libero Della Piana

Managing Director of Organizing and Strategic Partnership

Lindsay LaSalle

Managing Director of Policy

Theshia Naidoo

Managing Director of U.S. Foreign Policy

Julie “Jules” Netherland, Ph.D.

Managing Director of Research and Academic Engagement

Brian Pacheco

Managing Director of Communications and Marketing

Derek Hodel

Board President of the Drug Policy Alliance

Helena Hansen, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Co-Chair of the Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science and Associate Director of the Center for Social Medicine

Antonia Hyman

Associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Pamela Lichty

Drug Policy Action Board of Directors

Alejandro Madrazo

Academic Director, Talisis

Svante Myrick

Executive Director of People For The American Way

Angela Pacheco

Former District Attorney of the First Judicial District in New Mexico

Kemba Smith Pradia

Advocate and Author

Josiah Rich, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Community Health at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Alex Soros

Chair, Open Society Foundations

Mike Amador

Development Operations Coordinator

Jeffrey Chen

Senior Manager of IT Services

Aliza Cohen

Research Coordinator

Danisha Edwards

Administrative Associate

Grey Gardner

Senior Policy Counsel

David Glowka

Director of Development

Emily Kaltenbach

Senior Director of State Advocacy and Criminal Legal Reform

Maritza Perez Medina

Director of Federal Affairs

Laini Madhubuti

Manager of External Relations

Kristen Millnick

Senior Manager of Communications

Lina Mingoia

Director of Operation and Benefits

Gabriella Miyares

Director of Digital Communications & Branding

Melissa Moore

Director of Civil Systems Reform

Cat Packer

Director of Drug Markets and Legal Regulation

Norma Palacios

Policy Coordinator

Stephanie Polito

Director of Grants and Partnerships

Kellen Russoniello

Senior Policy Counsel

Joe Salas

Director of Membership

Hanna Sharif-Kazemi

Policy Coordinator

Grant Smith

Deputy Director of the Office of Federal Affairs

Christopher Soda

Executive Associate

Boris Sporer

Director of Information Technology and Knowledge Management

Shelley Steele

Senior Accountant

Thomas Sullivan

Director of Finance and Accounting

Toni Smith-Thompson

Director of New York State

Avinash Tharoor

Foundation Giving Coordinator

Sheila P Vakharia

Deputy Director of Research and Academic Engagement

Jeannette Zanipatin

Director of California State