Chicago | August 3, 2020

Christine De La Rosa

CEO & Co-Founder, The People's Dispensary

Christine De La Rosa is a transplanted Texan living and thriving in Oakland, CA. Christine spent 20 years as a systems architect in tech before coming to
cannabis. She is a social entrepreneur who has spent most of her adult life building businesses that creatively engage and employ the local communities
that surround them. A history in technology, business consulting, restaurants, event production companies, art and retail were part of the trajectory that led to
co-owning successful cannabis businesses in both California and Oregon. She is a well-respected businessperson, advocate and activist.
Christine is passionate about the industry that saved her life. At the top of her tech career she almost died from complications of undiagnosed Lupus. In 2015,
she found cannabis as an alternative to treat her lupus. No longer bound to 11 pills a day or monthly infusions, she was inspired by her experience to open
Benefit Health Collective in 2016, along with her three co-founders to help those who most need access to cannabis. Together they have grown a profitable multistate dispensary and a fiercely sought after national social equity model and enterprise now known as The People’s Dispensary. Christine sits on the board
of the Access and Innovation Project and is a committee member of the National Cannabis Industry Association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee.

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