Kassandra Frederique | |
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 Frederique on The Laura Flanders Show, 2019 | |
| Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance | |
| Assumed office September 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1986 (age 37–38) Manhattan, New York |
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Kassandra Frederique (born 1986) is an American drug policy advocate and journalist. Since September 2020, she has served as the president of the Drug Policy Alliance.
Biography[edit]
Kassandra Frederique was born in 1986 in Manhattan, New York to Haitian immigrant parents.[1] In 2019, she appeared as herself in the Netflix original film Grass Is Greener.[2] Frederique worked as the managing director of Policy Advocacy and Campaigns for the Drug Policy Alliance, and in September 2020, she became the president, preceding Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno.[3] While president, she oversaw the 2020 Oregon Ballot Measure 110, which reclassified drug possession in Oregon.[4]
In 2021, she testified to the United States House of Representatives to repeal drug policy laws.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Gorce, Tammy La (8 October 2021). "How a Drug Policy Activist Spends Her Sundays". The New York Times.
- ^ Grass is Greener (2019) - IMDb, retrieved 2024-02-20
- ^ Schiller, Melissa (9 March 2020). "Drug Policy Alliance Board Announces Kassandra Frederique as Next Executive Director". Cannabis Business Times.
- ^ Selsky, Andrew. "Oregon 1st in US to soften on hard drugs, 'magic' mushrooms". Associated Press.
- ^ "Written Testimony of Kassandra Frederique Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance" (PDF). 15 June 2021.