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📈 CPA and Business Advisor
🪴 Cannabis and Hemp Industry Executive
🌱 Medical Cannabis Advocate
🧩 Special Needs Mom
👭 People Connector     
📚 Avid Book Reader
🏝 Travel Lover

🌟 25+ years’ experience in finance to work with cannabis businesses on financial plans, business modeling, transaction support, project management, process improvement, and strategic advisory.

🎥 Featured in Benzinga, Washington Post, Capital Gazette, Baltimore Sun, CBS, Leafly, Cannabis Science & Technology, Cannabis Tech, The Daily Record, Greenhouse Grower, Street Insider, Cannabis Daily Record, Westword and more.

👩‍🏫 Past Speaking Engagements: MJBizCon, Jared Polis’ Marijuana Big Thinker Talks in Congress, Cannabis Science Conference, Women Grow Leadership Summit, Marijuana Business Conference, Americans for Safe Access Unity Conference, United Patients Group, Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, ABA TIPS Cannabis Law Conference, NCIA’s briefing of SAFE Act for Banking, Pathfinders for Autism Cannabis Workshop, among many others.

    •    Founder & CEO of grand consulting, LLC, a company focused on helping cannabis companies understand their financials to make better business decisions

    •    CFO & Patient Advocate at Maryland’s first cultivation facility, ForwardGro. (2015-2019)

    •    Previous experience in auditing (PwC), treasury management, lean process improvement, project management, and systems implementations

    •    Co-founder, StopTheSeizures.org and was integral in passing Maryland’s medical cannabis bill

    •    Co-lead author, Arcview/NCIA series of papers - Building New Foundations in the Cannabis Industry: Creating Gender Parity through Ownership, Leadership, Boards, Pay Equality, Branding, and Capital. https://arcviewgroup.com/ncia-papers/

🏆 MACPA Women to Watch Honoree
🏆 YWCA Trailblazer Award
🏆 ASA Courage Award

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📍 Annapolis, MD

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