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Imani Dawson is a writer and producer with over 20 years of experience in the media and communications industry. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania and works for TCC Media Inc in New York.
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Imani Dawson is a communications executive and strategist who specializes in political and cannabis advocacy. She has advised elected officials, non-profits, and small businesses, and is a board member of NORML and C.E.A.S.E.
Oct 27, 2020 · Imani Dawson is a Pulitzer Center grantee and the founder of TCC Media, a boutique agency specializing in political strategy, progressive social issues and legal cannabis. She has 20 years of experience in media and has led communications campaigns for Flora Buffalo, the Drug Policy Alliance and Mount Vernon Mayor-elect Shawyn Patterson-Howard.
Mar 29, 2024 · Imani Dawson is the founder of TCC Media, an award-winning communications firm, leading nationwide efforts to educate the public on the plant. For Women's History Month, we turned the Honey Spotlight on leading ladies of the cannabis industry.
- Gia Moron @Gia_Vm
- Solonje Burnett @Solonjeburnett
- Chenae Bullock @Netooeusqua
- Kristina Lopez Adduci @Kristinaadduci
- Mary Pryor @Iammarypryor
- Kristin Jordan @Kristin2473
- Tanya Osborne @Grooovie725
- Danniel Swatosh @Dannielswatosh
- Laura Eisman @Herhighnessnyc
- Holly J. Hager @Hollyjhager
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Who She Is
Founder/CEO of GVM Communications and President of Women Grow
Why We Love Her
Gia translated over 25 years of experience in public relations, including overseeing various business areas at Goldman Sachs, to launching her own firm, GVM Communications, and mentoring countless women entrepreneurs through Women Grow, the nation’s largest professional organization for women in the cannabis industry. Among her many feats, Gia is making the business landscape more equitable for women and people of color. In 2019, she helped organize the Business of Cannabis Summit at Emmanuel...
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“We no longer want to hear how cannabis companies claim to need more women and then do nothing. We want to see women and WOC at every level; in the C-suite, on boards, in managerial and entrepreneurial roles. If you see all men [on your team], then you need to diversify. If these men are having a hard time finding talented women, let us be that helpful resource! [Women Grow functions] as the gateway to connect phenomenal people in and out of this industry.”
Who She Is
Co-founder/CEO of Humble Bloom
Why We Love Her
Culture Curator Solonje Burnett serves her community in every way as an event producer, artist, consultant, and political activist. It is her mission to give underrepresented communities a seat at the table within the cannabis industry and by extension all global business. With Danniel Swatosh, Solonje is a co-founder of Humble Bloom, where her production and storytelling talents enable events, education and opportunity to merge for the public good. Never missing a chance to speak out for equ...
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“Curating with intentionality and advocating for equity, we created a space that amplified small BIPOC/femme/LGBTQ+ business owners allowing safe interaction and engagement with attendees and the plant. Reflecting the diverse community we want to see in our rapidly blooming industry… We use cannabis as an opportunity for connection, collaboration, community building and for all of the different ways that you can utilize the plant to come together and intersect.”
Who She Is
Managing Director of Little Beach Harvest, Founder of Moskehtu Consulting, and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Day NYC Committee
Why We Love Her
An enrolled Shinnecock Indian Nation Tribal Member and descendant of New York’s Montauk Tribe, Chenae Bullock is a pioneer. A cultural preservationist for Indigenous traditions, she is also the author of the book 50 Plant Medicines: Indigenous Oral History and Perspective, which helps readers better understand how plant-based healing has guided humanity for thousands of years. Chenae created her own consulting firm, Moskehtu Consulting, to educate institutions and corporations on cultural com...
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“Being in this business is not about the profit, it's about the change. We’re talking about a sacred plant. Sometimes when we talk about the business of cannabis, we leave out the conversation of the sacredness of the plant, as well as the fact that the people who have cultivated the plant, those who understand the uses and have words in their language to describe those uses are us: Indigenous peoples. And that’s something that we don’t want to lose sight of.”
Who She Is
Founder/CEO of House of Puff
Why We Love Her
This New Jersey-born Puerto Rican serial entrepreneur is an expert at combining art and business. She conceived the Latina-led and women-owned House of Puff after experiencing the benefits of medical cannabis, envisioning a lifestyle brand that could help people normalize their cannabis use with fashionable, art-inspired consumption devices and through their omnichannel content network. In a nod to Kristina’s passion for social justice, House of Puff often highlights designs by women and Blac...
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“New York will set the tone for Northeast legalization - it's the nightlife capital, the fashion capital, the media capital, and diversity is the heartbeat of NYC. It will be the new ‘cannabis industry H.Q.’ We're optimistic that New Jersey and New York seem to be centering equity in their legalization strategies, and we're also excited to see a lot of female and POC investors who have been waiting for New York to go online to start deploying capital into the cannabis space.”
Who She Is
Co-founder of Cannaclusive and Chief Marketing Officer of TONIC CBD
Why We Love Her
Mary has founded multiple companies, including co-founding Cannaclusive, one of the major collectives that provide resources for BIPOC-owned cannabis businesses. The Cannaclusive team operates Inclusivebase, a database of BIPOC-owned companies in the industry; the largest collection of BIPOC stock photography in cannabis; and The Accountability List to help everyone hold each other accountable for achieving diversity aims and reparations. Mary recently became a board member and advisor at The...
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“I'm a person in the space that is aware of where things really need to shift. Consumers need to take more power into buying from entities and brands that actually are supporting the work of melanated people, and or comprised of melanated people. And if we don't make that important so that people see it as a bottom-line problem, either because they never give a damn or they found a way to co-op it, then we're going to keep having issues where accountability just isn't going to matter.”
Who She Is
Founder/CEO of Park Jordan and Executive Director of the Asian Cannabis Roundtable
Why We Love Her
Over her past decade of involvement in New York’s cannabis movement (and eventually the national and international industries), Kristin has been a major force in bringing people together. An attorney and real estate expert, she was a founding member and the first Executive Director of the Cannabis Cultural Association, a nonprofit that works to provide resources for marginalized communities in the space, and proudly focuses her company Mannada on producing events that highlight professional n...
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“I started an education platform because I wasn't seeing women and people of color as subject matter experts [but I] knew that there were women and people of color who were educated in these areas and just needed a platform… What I learned from that is because all the big real estate firms are publicly traded, they’re not serving our industry. That lack of talent and expertise is sorely missing in cannabis… Park Jordan is the first Black and Asian-owned real estate business serving the cannab...
Who She Is
Founder/CEO of The CannaDiva and Director of Community/Digital Production, Women Grow
Why We Love Her
Tanya Osborne is a true Renaissance woman! The common theme in her resume is connection: from being a champion for women in the music industry, sharing the importance of women investing in and for their future, coaching women entrepreneurs and now contributing to changing the stigma of the plant and bringing awareness to the role of women in the cannabis industry. She founded The CannaDiva, a brand committed to supporting women in the space, including hosting canna-events and shining a spotli...
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“We’ve had people murdered over the smell of cannabis. That’s not going to happen anymore.”
Who She Is
Co-founder/Chief Marketing Officer of Humble Bloom
Why We Love Her
Danniel co-founded the creative cannabis collective Humble Bloom with Solonje Burnett. Her background spans from art to plants, people and entrepreneurship, having launched an artist in residency program as well as a raw juice and tincture company with a cult following. Her approach to brand strategy, as she says, is “Creative and cross-pollinating; with care and collaboration at the core, I tell stories rather than sell.” Danniel continues to work in art and also co-founded a non-profit call...
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“Cannabis touches on all things, is intrinsically intertwined with our evolution, and is an opportunity to create real change, flipping paradigms. We have to act fast though, once federally legalized, and we have interstate commerce, big corporations with their distribution, manufacturing, production, land, politicians and so on. Their hands are already in their pockets.”
Who She Is
Co-founder of Her Highness NYC
Why We Love Her
An award-winning creative director and several-time entrepreneur, Laura most recently co-founded Her Highness NYC, a cannabis lifestyle brand focused uniquely on women. Her Highness reimagines cannabis with female-friendly formulas and high-end design to create products in sync with the way women live. Prior to that she was a founding partner of Women's Media Lab, a consultancy to help woman-led companies launch and succeed — including branding, business and marketing strategies, and fundrais...
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“When I was first interested in cannabis and the legal market, I was trying to find my place… like which products really spoke to me, and none of them really did. There were products I enjoyed, but none were saying ‘I was made for you.’ And so all of [the Her Highness] products are really made with the motivation to help women and make them feel joyful and comfortable and happy.”
Who She Is
Principal/COO of House of Puff
Why We Love Her
Holly Hager is an entrepreneur and a principal of House of Puff. She honed her entrepreneurial skills at Curatious, an art platform she founded to expand the art market through accessible art education. Through her eight years at Curatious, she developed an extensive network of artists, many of whom she personally mentored in the business side of art. The startup world has allowed Holly to build on her core strengths of research, writing, and analysis while capitalizing on her willingness to...
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“I’d love to see everyone in the US do a year of mandatory and paid community service when they graduate high school. I think it could be an antidote to the social inequity that plagues us. We’re all about freedom, and, of course, that’s really important. But our freedom has been more for some of us than for all. Mandatory community service would instill a stronger sense of commitment to the common good by getting us all out of our bubbles and highlighting the values we share. In the long ter...
Imani Dawson is the founder of House of Puff, a Latina-led and women-owned cannabis lifestyle brand. She is also a co-founder of the Equity First Alliance, a coalition of BIPOC-led cannabis businesses and advocates.
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TCC Media is a MWBE-certified agency that specializes in political strategy, progressive social issues and legal cannabis. Founded by Imani Dawson, a courageous and compelling communications strategist and creative, TCC Media provides powerful and captivating media, marketing and outreach services.
Feb 19, 2024 · Imani Dawson And Beverly Moran On NORML's Advocacy For Black Communities. During the livestream, Ms. Dawson and Professor Moran will provide information about NORML’s distinctive value to the Black community as a consumer rights organization and the country’s longest-running cannabis legalization nonprofit with over 50 years of operation.
