Elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in 2016, Sharif is committed to improving access to healthcare, reforming our criminal justice system, creating quality jobs, funding our public schools, investing in science and technology and fighting for the rights of all Pennsylvanians. Senator Street is co-sponsor of SB 350, the Adult Cannabis Use Bill.
Christina DiArcangelo Puller, CEO and Founder of Affinity Bio Partners, CEO, Board President of Affinity Patient Advocacy and CEO and Co-Founder of AI Health Outcomes, CannaBotTM, has forged a world-class reputation in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industry for the past 20 years. Her engagements have led to numerous industry awards, keynote speaking engagements, multitude of global clinical trials as well as working on several drugs that have received FDA approval and the ultimate respect of her industry peers. Throughout the course of Christina's career, she has acted in various capacities for Global Clinical Research Organizations, Pharmaceutical Companies and Biotechnology Companies. Christina's professional success and drive has been facilitated by her unwavering strength as a contracts negotiator, visionary entrepreneur, skilled clinical research operations expert and her ability to successfully navigate the pharmaceutical industry with unparalleled success. Recently, she has launched a YouTube Channel called, “Coming Out with Cannabis” and is an American Society of Cannabis Medicine (“ASCM”) board member working on clinical research through the ASCM. "My strong work ethic, coupled with my motivation, drive to keep learning, growing and pushing the limits: have helped me reach many of my professional goals.
Charlana McKeithen is an advocate, educator, consultant, patient and public speaker that comes from a lineage of successful entrepreneurs. She has worked for over 25 years in the areas of Information Technology and Business Data Analyst. She also holds a Real Estate Broker-Salesperson license for over 15 years. Charlana interacts with many diverse groups including community leaders and politicians. Her rich experiences began by attending catholic schools (from grades 2-12) and church before class five days a week, in addition to Sunday service (literally 6 days a week in God's house). The result of that was a strong reinforcement of the message to say "NO" to drugs.
As an adult Charlana was diagnosed with several health issues, including chronic pain. she spent years of treatment only to learn she could not find relief in any of the medicines. After the many failures with medications, she was introduced to cannabis for the medical benefits. Finally, she found a treatment that helped, and she has been an advocate for cannabis ever since.
She wears many leadership hats with organizations like DelawareCAN, Delaware Norml, Minorities for Medical Marijuana (M4MM) and now the Deputy Executive Director for Norml New Jersey which promotes and fights for: education, equity, social justice, access and opportunity for all. These are some of the many initiatives that are offered and supported. Charlana has organized and hosted networking and community educational events in NJ & NY for M4MM. She has had the honor to speak at events for: M4MM, WomenGrow, Patients Out Of Time 13th Medical Conference and 20th Anniversary Global Cannabis March (DE Norml)