So who are we and what do we do?
Our goals
Women of Color in Cannabis (WOCC, pronounced WOKE!) aims primarily to do two things:
To ensure the burgeoning cannabis industry is friendly to women and BIPOC folks as consumers, employees, and entrepreneurs;
And to foster women of color in leadership at the highest levels in the legalized cannabis space.
Our Purpose
We exist to relieve the issues Women of Color face in the cannabis industry through community organization, education, and events. We do this by:
Facilitating connections between our community members and business leaders;
Creating opportunities to upskill cannabis industry talent;
And building a sustainable organization that can develop into chapter subsets.
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Meet the Women of WOCC
FOUNDER
Shaloma Wagstaffe is the Founder of Women of Color in Cannabis. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Shaloma entered the Cannabis industry by throwing events through her company HighsNLo.Ws with regular events such as PuffNPaint.
As an Environmental Planner, Shaloma has always been interested in the environment, health and wellbeing. As an avid Cannabis consumer, Shaloma went on to blend her interest in nature and consumption tby starting her event company and creating WOCC.
SHALOMA WAGSTAFFE
OPERATIONS LEAD
Sammie is the Operations Lead for Women of Color in Cannabis. She joined the WOCC team in 2019 and helps make sure that our organization has the tools it needs to keep providing the community support for which we've become known.
With almost a decade of high-level corporate experience under her belt, Samantha brings her operations expertise to help her community build efficient, scale-able, and affordable systems to set themselves up for success.