Estefania Valencia is a Cannabis educator and advocate who uses yoga, meditation and breathing techniques to introduce practitioners to the health benefits of the Cannabis plant. Born in Colombia and raised in Hudson Co. NJ, her passion for medicine and animal life led her to obtain a BS in Zoology from SUNY, Oswego. After being diagnosed with Lyme disease, she cofounded a CBD Yoga company with her boyfriend Salam Diri in NJ, called SannaOhana Wellness . Estefania uses her experience healing from Lyme Disease, and training in the veterinary and medical field, combined with her teaching expertise and passion for healing, to educate and empower individuals and their communities.
Jilleien has spent her entire career focused on building community.In 2018, Jill joined the cannabis community as Founder of MaryJane of Maryland. Today Jill is the owner and publisher of Mj Magazine a medical cannabis community and magazine centered around sharing the stories of Maryland Cannabis patients and their experiences medicating with marijuana. Jilleien received Entrepreneur of the Year from True Conversations in 2017. Amidst all of this, she continues to run her nonprofit “Simple Sacrifice,” an organization dedicated to feeding the homeless and hungry in Baltimore City on a weekly basis. Her and Her wife Colleen live in Federal Hill with their puppy, Petey.
Amber began her cannabis advocacy journey early in 2014, at the beginning of 2018 she became invested in the Maryland cannabis program looking for relief for her and her parents living with chronic arthritis. Soon after Amber became a bud tender, with an interest in treating chronic pain in young adults in the elderly. Seeing the need to create a relaxing comfortable environment for not only elderly cannabis patients, but for all who look for guidance and information on safety and proper consumption methods of their medical cannabis! Currently Amber teaches "how to dab "classes with the goal that Anyone from the age of 21 to 91 can learn something new and leave feeling confident consuming their medicine.
Having spent years,
not fully present in her own skin, due to an antidepressants induced
fog of the my mind. Roilyn champions the use of medical cannabis as the gateway to her own healing process! With over 15 years of experience as a medical coding auditor, educator and physician trainer with focus on clinical documentation improvement and better patient outcomes, Roilyn has become a resilient voice for medical cannabis in Maryland!