Caroline Phillips is the founder and Executive Producer of the National Cannabis Festival and principal of The High Street, a marketing and events company based in Washington, D.C. Caroline focuses her work on conceptualizing, strategizing and executing live event and marketing experiences that leverage business and advocacy to champion social good. Caroline founded National Cannabis Festival to celebrate progress on cannabis legalization through music, art, education, and exhibitions. Now in its third year, NCF is the largest ticketed cannabis-themed event on the east coast. Caroline lives in Washington, D.C. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, completed post-graduate studies at Howard University and received her Master’s degree from Georgetown...
Chanda Macias, MBA, Ph.D., is the Owner and General Manager of the National Holistic Healing Center Medical Marijuana Dispensary (NHHC) in Washington D.C. NHHC is a patient advocated company dedicated to providing individuals with debilitating medical conditions, and specific illnesses with alternative allopathic medicine. NHHC provides patient education and support, medical marijuana, and medical marijuana-infused products to qualifying patients or designated caregivers in compliance with the DC Department of Health. Dr. Macias earned her Ph.D. from Howard University in 2001 with a concentration in Cell Biology. She was extensively trained at the Howard University Cancer Center studying, breast cancer and evolved her studies to focus developing a model to understand how prostate cancer metastasizes to bone (Macias et al., 2002). She was recruited directly from graduate school to a Fortune 500 Company, Colgate Palmolive Company, to research oral diseases and possible treatment options. Contributing to the launch of several billion-dollar brands including Total® toothpaste and Simply White®, Dr. Macias innovation resulted in three (3) U.S. Patents, and eleven (11) Global Patients (World Intellectual Property Organization). Due to her love of the District of Columbia and metropolitan area, Dr. Macias returned and engaged her passion to innovate through evaluating patients at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Assigned to the Cancer Immunology Art Unit, Dr. Macias examined innovations from a myriad of inventors including Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies and pro se inventors from academic institutions. Dr. Macias derived from an interesting skill set, the ability to innovate in conjunction with the ability to critique innovations. In acknowledgment of Dr. Macias accomplishments, Dr. Winston Anderson of Howard University, the recipient of...
Dubbed “The Knower,” Goldie Solodar has earned this title because of her deep knowledge of Denver’s cannabis industry. In 2009, she packed her bags and relocated to Denver from upstate New York and instantly fell in love with the Mile High City. She worked downtown as a small- business consultant for three years before realizing being cooped up in an office was not for her. Wanting to interact with more people and merge her education in cultural anthropology with her passion for the cannabis lifestyle, Goldie saw an opportunity when the state of Colorado legalized recreational marijuana sales. She entered both the hospitality and cannabis industry when she founded City Sessions out of her Honda CR-V in May 2014. She’s since built her reputation as being a passionate advocate for both Denver and its cannabis community. In 2015, Goldie hired her first employee and has since grown her team that works with individuals and organizations from around the globe. Having been raised in the land of hippies, Goldie has always thought that cannabis can play an integral part in enhancing one’s lifestyle. She believes that through education, the negative stigmas surrounding cannabis will slowly change and people will comfortably incorporate it into their lives for either recreational or medicinal purpose. Even as demand for her business has grown, Goldie’s goal remains the same: to break the stigma around the cannabis plant by teaching people about its powerful and unique qualities while having fun along the way. Since launching in 2014, Goldie has been the Keynote Speaker at International Special Events Society’s Denver Chapter, and City Sessions has been featured...
“Krista operates at a dizzying velocity and altitude. When she updates me on her latest projects and accomplishments, I wonder if I’ve been napping at the wheel of my own business… she’s just that far ahead of everyone else.” -Tim Francis Altitude Products exists today thanks to the trailblazing leadership of Krista Whitley. An award-winning fast growth entrepreneur, Krista Whitley has spent her career creating organizations poised for explosive growth in underserved industries. Krista has experience on both sides of the camera: watched on reality television with Animal Planet’s “Groomer Has It Season 2” , CBC’s “Dragons Den” , and as executive producer of her own Rosie award nominated reality television show “The Fabulous Furballs” on Canada’s Slice network; and winning two American Advertising Federation Addy awards for her video production work. Of Krista, Kevin O’Leary said, “She’s the real deal.” Known as a real-time connector, Krista is an established community leader who was a founding board member of the Conscious Capitalism Chapter of Las Vegas. Honored as a Woman to Watch by Vegas, Inc, Krista serves as the Women Grow Market Leader for Las Vegas and moderates the monthly Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Association Market Trends in Marijuana panel. An experienced business leader, Krista is a “un-stoner” who is dedicated to helping leaders and brands do what they do best. Founder and CEO of Altitude Products, Krista is building a cannabis empire that includes the cannabis industry’s premier marketing and sales agency Social Media Unicorn, the cannabis industry’s most explosive product launch to date with The Weekend Box, and the licensing rights to some of the cannabis industry’s...
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