ASA Staff
email: steph@safeaccessnow.org
phone: 202-857-4272
Steph Sherer is a medical marijuana patient with over eleven years of experience servicing and managing non-profit businesses and community organizations including: event planning, consulting, fund development, public relations, and project management. She has worked with community development, education, social justice, human rights, peace, social change, and youth programs. She is a powerful advocate, a skilled spokesperson, and an energetic initiator of campaigns. Steph is a nationally recognized activist in the global justice movement and has received several community awards for work including the San Diego Peacemaker of the Year Award in 2003. She is a guest lecturer at University California, Berkeley and George Washington University, DC.
email: Don@safeaccessnow.org
Don Duncan has served on the Board of Directors since he co-founded American for Safe Access in 2002. As California Director, he is coordinating the grassroots and grasstops campaign to fully implement the states medical cannabis laws, respond to federal interference, and build a broader and more powerful coalition for medical cannabis in California. Mr. Duncan was instrumental in galvanizing grassroots resistance to federal raids and in seeding local self-regulatory alliances for medical cannabis providers statewide. He has worked closely with elected officials, law enforcement, collective operators, and community members in local implementation efforts in several California cities and counties, and is currently working with lawmakers in Sacramento to adopt legislation to expand rights for patients.
Mr. Duncan co-founded one of the oldest and most reputable families of medical cannabis dispensing collectives in California, helping to open legal facilities in Berkeley, West Hollywood, and Los Angeles. He is a leading consultant in the field of medical cannabis and has been featured in major media coverage, including 60 Minutes, Dan Rather Reports, Retirement Living TV, and the Los Angeles Times.
email: joe@safeaccessnow.org
phone: 510-251-1856 x320
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, Joe served as a law clerk for the Honorable Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California before working in criminal defense. In 2003, after assisting in all facets of the highly publicized prosecution of Edward Rosenthal and, later, his appeal, Joe joined ASA as the organization's attorney. In addition to compelling the California Highway Patrol revise its policy regarding the seizure of medical marijuana from qualified patients through a civil action in 2005, Joe has served as counsel for Gary Ross in his challenge to the indiscriminate firing of medical marijuana patients by private employers, which is pending before the California Supreme Court. Joe has also trained public defenders throughout the state how to defend medical marijuana patients.
email: kris@safeaccessnow.org
phone: 510-251-1856 x307
Kris Hermes brings nearly 20 years of social justice activism experience to the fight for safe access to medical marijuana. He has worked in various cities around the U.S. generating media and mobilizing people to effect change in federal and state policy on issues involving hunger, poverty and access to health care. Over the last few years, before joining ASA, he dedicated much of his time to legal activism, helping support those arrested during mass demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience. Previously as ASA's Legal Campaign Director, Kris and the legal staff led the organization in numerous victories that have provided greater protection for thousands of patients.
email: lindsey@safeaccessnow.org, legalsupport@safeaccessnow.org, info@safeaccessnow.org
phone: 510-251-1856
email: william@safeaccessnow.org
phone: 510-251-1856 x309
email: paul@safeaccessnow.org
webmaster@safeaccessnow.org
phone: 510-251-1856 x318
Paul has been with ASA since its inception, serving in a myriad of roles. He is happy to bring the logistical expertise he learned in the anti-globlization movement to bear to keep things running smoothly at ASA.
email: mike@safeaccessnow.org
email: brooke@safeaccessnow.org
phone: (202) 857-4272
email: jenn@safeaccessnow.org
phone: (202) 857-4272
email: talana@safeaccessnow.org
phone: (202) 857-4272
email: jill@safeaccessnow.org
phone: (720) 335-1386
email: hunter@safeaccessnow.org
phone: 510-251-1856 x304
After completing graduate studies in Human Rights and Drug Policy, Hunter worked at a prominent medical cannabis dispensary in San Francisco as a Community Liaison and Cannabis Consultant. He was also a member of the San Francisco ASA Chapter Steering Committee before relocating to DC to work for ASA as the National Field Coordinator in late 2012. Hunter is committed to ASA's efforts toward creating a more compassionate, sustainable drug policy, and he is proud to be a member of the country's leading medical marijuana organization.
