Bio:
Genine Coleman is the Founder and Executive Director of Origins Council. Genine lives in Mendocino County, and cultivated cannabis for over 20 years before taking up cannabis patient and policy advocacy, her focus for the past 8 years.
Genine is the co-founder of the Mendocino Appellations Project, which is now a regionally sponsored project of Origins Council. She serves on the Board of Directors for the 420 Archive which is devoted to collecting, preserving and sharing the history of cannabis culture and prohibition in the United States. Genine is also a founding board member of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, formed in 2019. From 2017 – 2020, Genine served on the Board of Directors of the California Growers Association.
Genine has a background in fine art, marketing, communications and education. She has studied traditional arts from around the world including; Ancestral Earth Skills, West African and Zimbabwean music, Internal Chinese Martial Arts and Kriya Yoga.
Work:
Origins Council was founded in 2019 as a California nonprofit education, research and policy advocacy organization. Our organization is dedicated to sustainable rural economic development within cannabis producing regions, and establishing nationally and internationally recognized, legally defensible, standards-based, geographic indication systems for cannabis.
Our organization’s vision is for legacy cannabis producing regions around the world to drive global sustainable development and regenerative agriculture through the regulated production and research of high quality craft cannabis and herbal medicine products. Critical to this mission and vision are public policies and programs that protect and promote these regions legacy cannabis farmers and medicine makers including their genetic, cultural, natural and economic resources.
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