Kassandra Frederique

Kassandra is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a national nonprofit that works to end the war on drugs—which has disproportionately harmed Black, Latinx, Indigenous, immigrant and LGBTQ communities—and build alternatives grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. She is actively working with the In Our Names Network and other efforts across the country to resist drug war-fueled state violence. She lives in New York.