Ryan Miller has a degree in Nuclear Engineering from West Point and both an MBA and MPP from Harvard University.  He served in the US Army as an Infantry officer, and was severely wounded in combat in 2007.

Most recently, Ryan led the day-to-day operations of OMG Farms, a cannabis brand based in Oakland, successfully acquired by Toronto-based Canibrands this year. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Warrior Rising, a 501.c.3 Veterans Service Organization focused on veteran business ownership, and he is a policy advisor to the Veterans Cannabis Project, spending time on Capital Hill advocating for cannabis as a veteran healthcare issue.

Shanita Penny, MBA is an internationally recognized management consultant and certified Project Management Professional, who proudly serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) and is also a member of the New Jersey Cannabis Industry Association’s (NJCIA) Board of Trustees. 

Budding Solutions, her cannabis consulting firm based in Baltimore, MD, provides management and strategy consulting to startups, small businesses and multi-state cannabis operators.

She strives to ensure equal access, economic empowerment and end the stigma associated with cannabis through advocacy, responsible consumption and compliance. 

Justin Strekal is the Political Director for NORML, where he serves as an advocate to end the federal prohibition of marijuana and to reform our nation’s laws to no longer treat marijuana consumers as second-class citizens.

Dale Sky Jones has been with Oaksterdam University since the beginning of 2008 as Science Faculty and she took over the school as President and CEO due to the federal raid of 2012 when our founder, Richard Lee, was forcibly retired.

Dale was the Prop 19 Spokeswoman of 2010, the blueprint for legalization to follow, and was the driving force towards policy changes in California and worldwide. Married to advocate Jeff Jones, they share two wonderful young boys, Jesse and Jackson, and a new daughter, the mighty Quinn.