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Introducing The speakers for the women in Cannabis expo
Introducing The Women in Cannabis Expo Speakers! The Women in Cannabis Expo is featuring a diverse range of women from around the world. There will be separate breakout sessions as well as panel discussions. These women offer diverse backgrounds in today's cannabis industry. This includes, growers, retailers, scientists, medical, business owners, government facilitators and more. Please join us to find out what their expertise are and how they align with The Women in Cannabis Expo's mission to learn, connect and inspire women.
Speaker: Tracy Ryan, Founder of Canna Kids/CKSoul & Saving Sophie
TOPIC: Cannabis Non-profit
Tracy Ryan is the Founder of CannaKids, a California based medical cannabis company, and the 501c3 www.SavingSophie.org. After her infant daughter’s low grade brain tumor diagnosis in 2013, Tracy dedicated her life to helping patients who suffer from life altering ailments, with a focus on children.
Having witnessed years of unheard of success in tens of thousands of patients suffering from cancer, and many other ailments and diseases, she is now supporting pre-clinical human & humanized mouse model trials led by
Dr. Anahid Jewett.
After two years of research on Tracy's daughter Sophie, and 17 of her CannaKids patients using her line of oils, Tracy and Dr. Jewett have made groundbreaking cancer discoveries that will be published to the medical journals in Spring of 2020. It’s her mission to not only end the suffering of those inflicted by cancer, but also develop a cure for her daughter that millions could benefit from.
Speaker: Dorinda Vance, Co-Founder/Co-CEO
TOPIC: CBD CHCOLATE BUSINESS OWNER/NETWORK MARKETING
Dorinda brings a lifetime of experience building successful businesses including Dorinda’s Chocolates to LiveKAYA. Known in many communities for her genuine love of people and heartfelt desire to help others achieve their own dreams, Dorinda is the holder of the vision at LiveKAYA. While growing the company to a world-wide enterprise, she oversees day-to-day operations with a keen eye and deep knowledge of chocolate. Dorinda frequently travels around the country to meet people and share our product and the opportunity, and is committed down to her cells to supporting the growth and success of our Brand Partners.
Dorinda is a natural connector and loves nothing more than bringing the right people together to elevate a project. Having spent many years in direct sales, she has an acute understanding of successful business strategies that create sustainable growth.
Above all else, Dorinda adores her family and considers her greatest accomplishment to be raising her four sons to be the amazing people they are.
Dorinda is a born visionary, always looking to create the next success story, and is thrilled to bring LiveKAYA into the world.
Speaker: Brooke M. Westlake , Founder & Owner ADA Lake Labs, LLC & Women in Cannabis Expo
TOPIC: Lab/Ancillary Services
Brooke started her professional career in healthcare. Her experience includes working in both the public and private sector. The last 10 years of her career included business development, leadership, new product development, product implementation, client retention, and regulation compliance. After twenty years she was ready to launch her own company. This included opening ADA Lake Labs, LLC., which provides an ancillary service for the cannabis industry. While launching her lab, she realized a national expo and meeting facility for women was missing. Therefore she developed the Women in Cannabis Expo which has the mission to learn, connect and inspire women in the industry.
Brooke holds a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Criminal Justice.
She was appointed by former State of Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval as a commission member for the Nevada Commission for Women, completing two terms. More recently she was appointed by the State of Nevada Governor Sisolak to the Board of Examiners for Long-Term Care Facility Administrator & The Northern Nevada Disciplinary Board. When Brooke is not creating new entities she enjoys spending time with her family, loves to create art and enjoys laying on the beach at Lake Tahoe.
Speaker: Lolita Korneagay, RN Medical Cannabis Consultant & Cansoom Founder
TOPIC: Healthy Safe Cannabis Consumption
Lolita is a Registered Nurse with over 15 years of experience in various healthcare settings. Lolita is the founder of Cansoom, a trusted network of licensed medical professionals that advise consumers about healthy cannabis consumption. She is also the first person to write a cannabis educational book especially for nurses, “The Medical Cannabis Consultant's Handbook”, she is also the author of “The Medical Cannabis Consultant Explained”, and “Your Cannabis Consumption Journal”.
In 2017, Lolita founded Cansoom and developed the most comprehensive, in-person Medical Cannabis Consultant training program for licensed medical professionals. Cansoom's mission is to connect consumers with Medical Cannabis Consultants to make cannabis consumption easy and acceptable for everyone. The Cansoom platform contains an online searchable directory of licensed medical professionals and makes it easy for consumers to find and connect with the right consultant.
In 2018, Lolita has also launched a YouTube and IGTV channel, under the moniker Nurse Lolita, to expand her reach and teach as many people as possible about cannabis consumption while removing negative stigmas.
Through her hard work and research, Lolita has made cannabis consumption safe for those who need it to cope with medical issues while also giving medical professionals the opportunity to learn about healthy cannabis consumption, own their own business, and become cannabis advocates.
Speaker: Sarah Stephen Selmon, Producer & Owner Tallgrass Hemp Cannabis
TOPIC: Hemp Cultivation
Founder of Tallgrass Hemp & Cannabis, Sarah leads with an entrepreneur's heart. Growing industrial hemp in Kansas' first legal crop, she believes in pushing boundaries and providing value. A frequent speaker at Texas Hemp Grower events and other hemp industry panels, Sarah collaborates with other pioneers and advocates for changes to cannabis laws in Kansas--one of only 8 states where residents have no legal access to cannabis. Sarah shares her experiences regarding legal and regulatory snares along the way and her perspective as a female grower in an agricultural state.
An innovator in business, she founded Safe Riders, Inc. in 2003 at the age of 25—the service drove intoxicated individuals home, in their own vehicle. The business was innovative and forward thinking. It solved a very real problem that, as a bartender at Walt’s Bar & Grill, she believed could be positively affected by providing a service solution.
While earning a Master of Public Affairs degree from Wichita State University’s Hugo Wall School, Sarah worked in Republican politics. She managed campaigns for governor, mayor and state representative. She learned to prefer the parameters of entrepreneurship.
When the opportunity to first grow hemp arose in Kansas, Sarah submitted a successful research proposal and was the first licensee in the state. Assembling an experienced team, learning from available research, and committing to industrial hemp in Kansas, Tallgrass Hemp & Cannabis incorporated in 2019.
Speaker & Moderator: Rebecca Gasca, Founder & Owner Pistil & Stigma
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Speaker: Kat King, Founder & Owner of Cannamahila
TOPIC: CBD Skincare Business
Kat King is the Founder/CEO of Cannamahila. Cannamahila is a Luxury Hemp CBD Skincare line that uses certified organic ingredients, formulated by plant medicine women. The company is based out of Colorado and uses top shelf, organic, full spectrum Hemp CBD distillate grown by a local farm that is veteran owned. This line was manifested out of King’s twenty five year passion for making and providing quality, herbal moon medicines. All of Cannamahila’s infusions are made according to lunar cycles.
Kat is a plant spirit medicine woman, healer, yogi, musician, award-winning commercial film producer and a CPTSD survivor. She has dedicated over half of her life to the business of Cannabis, film, music, healing and helping to educate people about green living. King is a thirty-year cannabis caregiver and twenty seven-year cultivator. Her passion for herbal medicines, infusions and formulations started in 1993 when she moved to Colorado from Mississippi and started growing her own cannabis, medicinal herbs and food. Living off of the land became a favored way of experiencing life at a young age. From that age forward, Kat became an advocate for living an organic, holistic, regenerative lifestyle, whether living in a city or out in nature. She spent summers on a hundred-acre certified organic farm in the Kootenays, British Columbia Canada starting in 1999. It was on that farm she learned how to properly grow, harvest, formulate and manufacture an extensive organic product line of herbal tinctures, tonics and skincare products. Sustainable, organic foods and alkalinity education is also a huge part of Kat’s life experience and activism.
King became involved with the Native American church in the 90’s and participated in many different types of ceremonies and practiced tribal teachings over the years. Varying types of entheogens (yopo, peyote, morning glory) were a part of many of these ceremonies and contributed to an even stronger spiritual foundation and deeper connection to plant spirits. She is also an avid supporter of healing through other psychedelics such as psylocybin, MDMA and LSD as a treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD and other ailments.
Kat currently contributes as a liaison with Skunk Magazine. She writes articles for the digital version featuring Colorado cannabis companies, farms, advocates, etc. and her “Consciousness & Cannabis in Music” series featuring musicians who are connected to the plant. This year she will be contributing more focused articles on plant allies and female owned/managed cannabis companies.
Kat has gained a unique perspective with an unlimited amount of contacts within each of the above facets. From growing cannabis in several locations for more than two and a half decades, as well as brokering and working symbiotically with legal dispensaries, farms, laboratories and infusionists, to combining her skills and contacts as a Hollywood film producer, Kat is quickly being sought out for her over all, healing wisdom in this booming industry. What matters most is that she is a plant medicine healer and a steward of Mama Ganja.
Speaker: Eliza Maroney, Founder & Owner of the Lucky Box Club
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Speaker& Moderator: Keiko Beakie
TOPIC: Cannabis, Senior Citizens & Consumption
Keiko Beatie has been a practitioner of Ayurveda, Chinese and Holistic Medicine since the 1970's. Her specialty in Bach Flower and Homeopathic has continued with whole plant cannabis medicine and focusing on education to the community for better patient care and health and well-being. She is the Director of Education for Coral Cove Wellness Resort located in Jamaica. This is an all-inclusive cannabis educational resort with cultivation on the oceanfront of the crystal blue waters of Jamaica.
She speaks at many mainstream CBD and cannabis conference across the country on subjects Senior Education with CBD & THC, Pain Management, Edibles, Topicals, Patient Care, Minorities in Cannabis, How to Create a Business in Cannabis, just to name a few. Her background, education and knowledge on the whole plant has assisted many to be able to be in this industry and community, but most of all heal themselves from many serious diseases
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Keiko’s outreach has brought her to the County Fairs in California cooking with hemp and CBD, to enable outreach to the mainstream the benefits of hemp and cannabis. She is a Board Member of NORML OC, The Cannabis Chamber of Commerce Board Member, Head Judge of Edibles for The Emerald Cup, created the Cannabis International Tourism Association, and has a focus on Senior Education with natural plant base medicine with the program “Cannabis and CBD For You and Me”.
In the past Keiko created the first cannabis-based TV network on Roku TV The US Weed Chanel, former Leadership Women Grow, has Co-Host of Hemp Radio and written for, Marijuana.com, Weedmaps and Sensi Magazine .
Keiko mission statement is “Cannabis acceptance and legalization through education and outreach for patient care”.
• Practitioner of Holistic, Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine
• Director of Education Coral Cove Cannabis Health & Wellness Resort, Jamaica
• Bach Flower and Homeopathic Specialty
• Contributing Writer Marijuana.com for Weedmaps
• Board Member OC NORML 2015 Years to Present
• Board Member The Cannabis Chamber of Commerce Orange County
• Cannabis International Tourism Association
• Author of upcoming book – Autism & Cannabis: A Family Back to Balance
• Head Judge of Edibles The Emerald Cup (2016 – Present)
• Vegetarian/Vegan Trim Camp Chef
• Cooking San Diego and Orange County Fair with Hemp and CBD 2014 to Present
• Writer, Speaker, Consultant, Activist all for Cannabis Patient Care!
• Writing for Maijuana.com Weedmaps, Sensi Magazine, Edibles Magazine and other outlets
• US Weed Channel 2013 on Roku TV – Co Founder
• Leadership Chair Women Grow OC 3 Years
• Hemp Radio Co-Host 2014 to 2016
• Educator Cannabis Career Institute CCI
• Educator Marijuana Show – How to Have A Successful Delivery Service
• Producer Film “Secret Life of Trimmers”
• Edibles Company 2002 – 2005
• Created successful Delivery Service and Cultivation in California and Oregon
• Third person in the US who had a underwater birth in 1981
• Senior Workshops – 2018 - 2020 Across America
Spoke at the Following: Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo Boston, New York and LA, CBD Expo SoCal & Orlando, Detroit Cannabis Conference, Canna Con, World of Cannabis, Hawaii Cannabis Conference, Women Grow Education at Weedmaps, OC Canna Education, CBD Expo Anaheim, Orlando & Indianapolis, World CBD Expo San Diego, NECANN, Supply Side West, Infused Expo, NORML, Cannabis Fest Forum San Francisco, Michigan Cannabis Conference, Sushi & Doobie Rolling Workshop, Arkansas Cannabis Conference, Mary Jane University, Moonlit Movable Feast and many more.
Speaker Chelsie Spencer, Esq.
TOPIC: The Legal Side of Cannabis
Chelsie Spencer is a cannabis and hemp attorney. She is a founding member of Ritter Spencer PLLC. Chelsie practices in the areas of medical marijuana and hemp and represents clients across those industries for their business law and compliance needs. Chelsie represents all facets of the cannabis and hemp industries, including dispensaries, growers, processors, manufacturers, retailers, and more. Forbes Magazine dubbed Chelsie the “rare friendly face in the midst of a cutthroat CBD hurricane, the person you want on speed dial when things turn sour” for her work in the cannabidiol (CBD) industry. In addition to navigating complex issues and transactions in these highly regulated industries, she frequently writes, speaks, and presents on issues affecting these industries at conferences and forums across the United States.
Chelsie’s practice also focuses on transactional issues in commercial law and in intellectual property. Chelsie has secured registration of numerous federal trademarks and copyrights for her clients and manages worldwide trademark portfolios, in addition to handling trademark and copyright licensing, consent, coexistence, and assignment agreements for a variety of industries.
Chelsie’s litigation experience includes enforcing and defending claims of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, patent infringement, false designation of origin, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and tortious interference with contract, among others. She is licensed in both Texas and Florida and has represented clients in federal and state litigation throughout the nation, at both the trial and appellate level. She has tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal courts and has secured dismissal of multiple federal lawsuits.
Speaker: Madison Marzario, Founder of Wyldfire Concentrates
TOPIC: Cannabis Consulting
Madison was first introduced to the legal Cannabis industry in 2011 when both of her parents became involved in the industry. Madison began consulting in the cannabis industry in 2016; her work consists of supporting operators of all license types. Her most recent consulting work consists of operations for 12 cultivation facilities, two MIPs and one dispensary. However, the highlights of her career thus far have been Care Division CBD and Wyldfire Concentrates (THC) which she and her sister, Montana, both founded in Colorado. Care Division started as a national OTC brand and has now expanded to THC offerings. Wyldfire Concentrates launched in January of 2020 and is carried across the state of Colorado with plans to launch in additional states this year.
The Women IN Cannabis Expo: Speakers
Speaker: Sara Payan, Founder of Planted
TOPIC: Sexual Health & Government Relations
Sara Payan is a nationally recognized and award-winning cannabis educator, speaker, public policy advocate, writer and consultant. She is the Public Education Officer for the Apothecarium in San Francisco, a member of the San Francisco Cannabis Oversight Committee and for three years (2016-2018)
was vice-chair of the San Francisco Cannabis State Legalization Task Force. Sara has had the honor of speaking and lecturing at such events as the New West Summit, Meadowlands, Patients Out of Time, Women Grow and The Women's Visionary Congress and the Arkansas Cannabis Industry Association. She is also the host of the nationally distributed “Planted” podcast, which debuted May 2019 on the Radio Misfits Podcast Network and is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Amazon, Pandora, Spotify, and Stitcher.
With over 16,000 hours of hands-on experiential medical cannabis patient research, Sara has consulted with many large healthcare organizations such as Kaiser and UCSF, to help them better understand the role cannabis can play in their patients’ lives. She has lead large-scale industry training and lectures nationwide, including continuing education credit classes at accredited schools for healthcare practitioners through her private practice. Sara created and taught the first cannabis education workshop series for City College of San Francisco’s Continuing Education program and has lectured at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Her experience as a stage III colon cancer survivor and her civil rights background fueled her passion for about creating safe access to cannabis through education and also inspired her to create a compassionate consulting training program for those in the medical cannabis industry and beyond.
Sara was named one of the 100+ most important women in cannabis for 2019 and 2020 by the Green Market Report. Her work has been highlighted in MJ Lifestyle Magazine, California Leaf, San Francisco Chronicle, Dope Magazine, Cannabis Now, High Times, and in Damian Marley’s “Medication” series. She has been quoted in mainstream lifestyle publications such as Self Magazine and The Bold Italic. Sara is a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies with a bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and Critical Psychology with a concentrated study on third wave sustainable transformational feminist leadership theory. She is also a writer for Cannabis Now.
Speaker: Dr. Janelle Kim, Founder of JBK Wellness Labs
TOPIC: Cannabis Beauty Defined
Dr. Jenelle Kim, DACM, L.Ac., is the founder and leader formulator for JBK Wellness Labs. Dr. Kim is carrying on the medical knowledge and wisdom of her lineage, which is rooted in the teachings of the great Dr. Heo Jun (1539-1615), a royal doctor of the great Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Dr. Heo Jun compiled the Dongui Bogam, a 25-volume medical encyclopedia, that was completed in 1613, with its basic theories based on the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing). Dr. Kim is the first female in her lineage to hold the treasury of her family’s proprietary Bi Bong® formulas that have been passed down for centuries and the first to share them on such a large scale.
Dr. Kim is devoted to integrating the philosophy, medical wisdom, and expertise of East Asia with the advancements of modern life and medicine of the West in order to touch and positively affect the lives of others. Dr. Kim is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and is Nationally Board Certified in Herbology, Oriental Medicine, and Acupuncture. She furthered her studies abroad, training with some of the most respected doctors and herbologists of East Asia.
Dr. Kim completed extensive training in East Asia under some of the most respected doctors in the field of Oriental Medicine and is the custodian of her lineage’s proprietary Bi Bong® formulas. Her extensive knowledge of herbal medicine allows for a unique perspective on the understanding of Hemp CBD and its effect on well-being.
With almost 20 years in the beauty and wellness industry, Dr. Kim has formulated some of the first all-natural luxury products carried in high-end spas across the world including Ritz Carlton, Four Season & Mandarin Oriental high-end retailers such as Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus & Bergdorf Goodman, and in the natural marketplace in stores such as Whole Foods Market & Sprouts. Formulating with CBD since 2012, Jenelle is known for being a pioneer in the industry and creating the first luxury CBD skincare line in the world - Cannabis Beauty Defined.
Speaker: Laniakea Evans, General Manager for 365 Recreational Cannabis & Founder of White Window Consulting
TOPIC: Dispensary Management
Ms. Evans has worked in the cannabis space for over 15 years. She is currently the General Manager of 365 Recreational Cannabis in Santa Rosa, California and the Founder and CEO of White Widow Consulting. Ms. Evans started her career in the legacy market as a trimmer and has gone on to manage farms, distribution facilities, and dispensaries throughout Northern California. Her passion is education and making cannabis more accessible to her community. She is currently working on creating an education and outreach program to connect Sonoma County’s nearly 180 assisted living and board and care home facilities with free cannabis consultations and educational material for their aging residents. You may also recognize her from her publications in Sensi Magazine, Dope Magazine, and Leaf Magazine or as one of this year’s Emerald Cup Therapeutic Topicals judges. Laniakea has faced some unique challenges in the male dominated cannabis industry but believes that leading with honesty and creating a sense of community, almost a sense of ’Ohana (Hawaiian for family), has been what drives her continued success. When Laniakea isn’t managing 365 Recreational Cannabis she is creating synergies in the industry and helping new entrepreneurs build successful businesses as the CEO of White Widow Consulting. She is a proud mother of three wonderful girls, and she enjoys spending her days off cooking, gardening, and crocheting with them.
Speaker: Adelia Carrillo, Founder & Owner of EventHi
TOPIC: Creation of Online Cannabis Friendly Ticket Platform
Speaker: Tiffanee J. Dewberry, Founder of MJ Maven
TOPIC: Cannabis Pod Casts
Sunshine mixed with a little hurricane, built from fire, passionate and motivated with relentless determination -- introducing MJ Maven. She is many things: a devoted Aries; creative social entrepreneur; social media ninja; lifelong music lover; pop culture aficionado; friendly problem solver; proud beer evangelist; thinker. MJ Maven is a woman who lives her life by two simple tenets: 1) a lack of passion is fatal; and 2) live a life of purpose and significance.
Growing up in Northern California, MJ had a typical safe suburban life, a great upbringing, lots of friends, and a solid education. Upon graduating high school, she began her pursuit of a career (and hopefully some fame) in the music industry. After a few years--and a few minor successes--she decided to return to school to pursue her bachelor's degree. In 2001, MJ met her soulmate at UC Davis, and…fast forward…a few years later, she was a very happy wife, mother of three boys, had great friends, family and still had time to travel. And despite being diagnosed with MS in 2006, she was healthy, and honestly…very much blessed.
However…MJ knew deep down that she was still partly living in fear. She wasn’t living up to her full purpose or pursuing her true passion. Spurred on by the novel The Alchemist, MJ abruptly ended a 15-year career in corporate sales and marketing to become a full-fledged entrepreneur. It was a choice she needed to make. She now knew her purpose in this universe, and so it was she leapt headfirst into the burgeoning cannabis industry.
MJ quickly became a fixture in a new and exciting movement to make the cannabis industry equitable, diverse, and beneficial to the individuals that have been most disenfranchised. Today MJ is a proud, self-proclaimed serial (and social) entrepreneur. While she wears many hats within the cannabis industry (primarily as a brand educator), she still somehow finds time to hosts events, educate others about cannabis and sexual wellness, and be the host of four podcasts.
Much like everything in her life, she exudes passion and confidence while discussing the cultural and social impact of the brilliantly irreverent television series by the same name.
MJ Maven. Compassion with passion.
Speaker: Ashley Manning, Strategic Advisor for NACB (National Association of Cannabis Business)
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