MISSION:
We work to dismantle our country’s unjust, inequitable and ineffective drug policies.
VISION:
A common-sense, public-health focused approach to drug policy and criminal justice.
LEADERSHIP.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & EVENTS:
UPCOMING:
The True Impact of Prohibition :: Prohibition Partners Live
Social Equity Policy & Community Development :: Meadowlands
Growth From Home :: Growth Conference
PAST:
Culture and Cannabis Reform in New York State :: Think BIG
Social Equity in Cannabis :: Emerge Cannabis Conference & Expo
Social Equity Programs :: Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference
Cannabis in the 2020 Election :: The Battery x Sava
Investing & Scaling Diverse Brands & Founders :: Luxury Meets Cannabis Conference
The Drug War and Police Policy :: Spark Events
Cannabis and Justice Reform :: Herb
Race, Cannabis and Policing :: Marijuana Policy Project
Cannabis Policy and the Rise of the Carceral State :: Kush.com
Music and Criminal Justice Reform :: Rootfire
Leveling the Playing Field :: Harlem Business Alliance
Growth at Home Speaker Series :: Growth Conference
Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo
High Expectations: Cannabis and Sustainability
Women in Cannabis Summit :: Heady Vermont
Black America and the War on Drugs :: Minority Cannabis Business Association
Business of Legal Cannabis Conference :: Yale School of Management
Do Good, Better :: Miss Grass
NATALIE PAPILLION FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Natalie Papillion is a strategist, organizer and policy expert who currently serves as the Executive Director of The Equity Organization, a not-for-profit organization she founded that works to advance just, equitable and effective drug policies and criminal justice reforms.
Natalie currently sits on the board of The Last Prisoner Project and Second Chance Studios. Papillion also works as a writer, researcher and curator for both academic and mass-market publications, including her forthcoming history “Reefer Madness: The Roots of Drug Prohibition in America”.
Prior to her role at The Equity Organization, Natalie worked in the business sector, where she held various strategy, marketing and operations leadership roles at places like Google and Rent the Runway. She is a graduate of Yale University.
WRITING & RESEARCH:
Criminal Injustice: Cannabis and the Rise of the Carceral State
It’s Finally Time to Defund the Drug War :: Business Insider
Taylor Travesty Must Renew Focus on Drug War :: Filter Magazine
Smoking Weed Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence :: The Grio
Reasons to End War on Marijuana :: Albany Times-Union
Prohibition Is A Real Danger to Public Health :: AM New York
Real Reefer Madness: Our Marijuana Policy :: Chicago Tribune
Decriminalization Doesn’t Do Enough :: Medium
A Catastrophe The Cannabis Industry Hasn’t Seen Coming :: Medium
Give Marijuana Tax Revenues to the Harmed :: Wall Street Journal
New York: Get Serious About Social Equity :: Gotham Gazette
A Complicated Cannabis Summit :: Yale Daily News
Pass Sensible Marijuana Legislation :: Five Borough Future
Facts, Not Feelings, Should Drive Cannabis Policy :: Medium
PODCASTS & VIDEO:
Cannabis and the Rise of the Carceral State :: Radio Free Cannabis
Cannabis Equity with Natalie Papillion :: Broccoli Talk
The Dark History of Cannabis Criminalization :: Kinswomen Podcast
COVID-19 Dispatch with Natalie Papillion :: Union Electric Podcast