Kassandra Frederique | |
Term Start: | September 2020 |
Birth Place: | Manhattan, New York |
Image Name: | Kassandra Frederique on The Laura Flanders Show.jpg |
Order: | Executive Director of the |
Office: | Drug Policy Alliance |
Caption: | Frederique on The Laura Flanders Show, 2019 |
Predecessor: | Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno |
Kassandra Frederique (born 1986) is an American drug policy advocate and journalist. Since September 2020, she has served as the president of the Drug Policy Alliance.
Kassandra Frederique was born in 1986 in Manhattan, New York to Haitian immigrant parents.[1] In 2019, she appeared as herself in the Netflix original film Grass Is Greener. Frederique worked as the managing director of Policy Advocacy and Campaigns for the Drug Policy Alliance, and in September 2020, she became the executive director, proceeding Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno.[2] While executive director, she oversaw the 2020 Oregon Ballot Measure 110, which reclassified drug possession in Oregon.[3]
In 2021, she testified to the United States House of Representatives to repeal drug policy laws.[4]