Natural Medicine Health Act
“Any particular image of modernity must be open to co-creation.” -Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
Passing the first law of its kind.
I worked operations and strategy on the campaign to pass Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act (Proposition 122), which created regulated and decriminalized access to five natural psychedelic medicines, along with associated therapies and other support services, for every adult in Colorado over the age of twenty-one.
Over the course of two years, I played an active role in the campaign through community organizing, measure drafting, bridge building, and strategy development processes.
I was first appointed Operations Designer at the Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform, and Education (SPORE), where I:
Worked to organize and operationalize a coalition of leaders advocating for responsible psychedelic decriminalization
Participated in many of the private meetings and town halls that were critical to the early-stage development of the measure
I was then brought on as a Strategy Advisor by Helix Consulting Group, where I:
Advised the chief petitioners of the NMHA through focused executive coaching sessions
Served as a founding participant in a series of efforts to create harmony between grassroots and grasstops stakeholders
Developed an organizing methodology that has proven valuable to the advancement of adjacent non-partisan initiatives
I was then hired as Operations Associate for Natural Medicine Colorado, where I:
Organized and facilitated 15+ events, serving as spokesperson at several and representative at most—including our statewide educational tour, the meet-and-greets leading up to it, and our election night watch party
Secured 5+ endorsements from veterans and veteran organizations, which anchored our most effective messaging
Developed swing-voter messaging from our polling data, deployed across the educational tour and general voter engagement
Ran voter and stakeholder education in direct conversation with voters, influencers, and endorsers on the nuances of the measure
Supported GOTV through the text and phone banks leading up to election day
Proposition 122 passed in November 2022, making Colorado the first state in the country to unify legal and decriminalized access to natural psychedelic medicine and associated services into the same initiative.