Melanie Rose Rodgers is a Filipina community organizer and grassroots activist based in Denver. She has been an advocate on the frontlines of cannabis, psychedelics and criminal justice reform through record sealing for nearly a decade. Her involvement as a petitioner behind Denver’s successful 2019 ballot initiative to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms led her on a healing journey with entheogenic plants and psilocybin mushrooms. Melanie’s advocacy and organizing efforts have been instrumental in passing and implementing policy and legislation in Denver, Washington DC and in Colorado.
In this talk, she'll share stories from her lived experience providing insights to Colorado's political landscape and lessons learned in community organizing.
Melanie is the Executive Director and Co-founder of local nonprofit Expunge Colorado and founder/co-leader of BIPOC Psychedelic, a community organization that is BIPOC-led/centered in Denver Five Points. Follow BIPOC Psychedelic's journey on Instagram @BIPOCPsychedelic.
Presentation title, Healing, Lessons Learned and Insights from almost a Decade in Activism in Denver, Colorado
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Questions? Marty Otañez, PhD, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, CU Denver