Kelley Crosson

Kelley Crosson is a horticulturist, designer, and cannabis advocate. She owns KC, Inc., a consulting company based in Manhattan. From 2009-2018 she worked with major donors for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP.) MPP played the leading role in drafting, funding, and staffing the historic 2012 Amendment 64 initiative in Colorado – which made CO the first place in history to legalize marijuana for adults and regulate it like alcohol. MPP also led the coalitions that passed measures to legalize and regulate marijuana in Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada in 2014 and 2016, and led medical marijuana and decriminalization reform efforts in multiple states. Kelley also served as Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the New Jersey Cannabis Industry Association (NJCIA) from 2017-2019, as strategic advisor to Etain Health from 2018-2022, and created the class “Growing Cannabis” at the New York Botanical Garden. She has served as an advisor to the CWCBE since 2017.