Author Bios

Stephanie Van Hook is co-Director of the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California. You can contact her at [email protected].

James Lewis is a senior policy analyst at Washington think tank Robert Weiner Associates

Tony Newman is communications director for the Drug Policy Alliance.

Chip Pitts teaches human rights and corporate social responsibility law at Stanford Law School and Oxford University and serves as a volunteer activist for a number of organizations and …

Jasmine Tyler is deputy director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance.