Nina Parks

Nina Parks was born on Ramaytush, Ohlone Land aka San Francisco. Her mixed race heritage (Filipino & Ashkenazi Jewish American) and working middle class upbringing as a latchkey key kid in 1990’s San Francisco as well as early education as a part of an Affirmative Action Framework, fueled her love for art, community and cannabis. She approaches her life work of evolving systems that no longer want to model themselves with inequitable lenses, with a healthy dose of flower child playfulness, rebellion and love for humans as a whole beings.

Nina has since become an expert in cannabis & cannabis social equity policy; her advocacy landed her recognition in High Times Magazine’s 100 top influential people in Cannabis of 2018. Her Cannabis Equity advocacy was fueled by the incarceration of her brother in NYC and the launch of their Prop 215 compliant delivery; their story was featured on Viceland’s Weediquette "Going Legit".

Since then Parks has co-founded an organization for women of color in the cannabis industry called Supernova Women with co-founders Amber Senter, Tsion Lencho & Andrea Unsworth. She is also a Founding Member of the Equity Trade Network that holds the first Federal Certification that identifies products created by businesses in an "Equity Program."

As if Nina didn't already have her hands full she has taken on the responsibility of sitting on San Francisco's Oversight Committee as the Verified Equity Applicant representative and Racial Equity Lead and is currently building out her own Cannabis inspired brand Gift of Doja.