Kassandra Frederique | |
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Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance | |
Assumed office September 2020 | |
Preceded by | Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno |
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Born | 1986 (age 37–38) Manhattan, New York |
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Kassandra Frederique (born 1986Drug Policy Alliance.
) is an American drug policy advocate and journalist. Since September 2020, she has served as the president of theKassandra Frederique was born in 1986Manhattan, 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 executive director, proceeding Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno. [3] While executive director, she oversaw the 2020 Oregon Ballot Measure 110, which reclassified drug possession in Oregon. [4]
inIn 2021, she testified to the United States House of Representatives to repeal drug policy laws. [5]