Sanho Tree is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies where he has directed its Drug Policy Project since 1998. The project works to end the domestic and international “War on Drugs” and replace it with policies that promote public health and safety in countries such as the Philippines, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, Venezuela, Afghanistan, and the US. Mr. Tree is also a former military and diplomatic historian and he has collaborated in the past with Dr. Gar Alperovitz on The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (Knopf, 1995). From 1996-97, he assisted entertainer Harry Belafonte and he was also associate editor of CovertAction Quarterly, a magazine of investigative journalism. In the late 1980s he worked at the International Human Rights Law Group.

Kat Murti is a libertarian, feminist, and activist, dedicated to making the world a better, freer place, one day at a time. She is Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and has served as an appointed director on SSDP’s Board of Directors for over a decade, most recently as Treasurer of the Board. Kat is the co-founder and executive director of Feminists for Liberty, an anti-statist and anti-sexist organization that is uplifting libertarian feminist voices, promoting gender equality without abandoning classically liberal ideas, and changing the narrative about both feminism and libertarianism, as well as co-leader of the D.C. chapter of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) and a communications consultant for the international organization. Kat serves on the board of PublicSquare.net, as well as the advisory board of the White Coat Waste Project. She served as Bay Area Regional Director of the Proposition 19 campaign to legalize adult recreational cannabis, has worked at the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, and, briefly, in cannabis business law. She was recognized as one of the Red Alert Politics 30 Under 30 in 2018, as well as one of the 40 under 40 Outstanding BIPOC Leaders in Drug Policy in 2021. Kat earned her B.A. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a graduate of Oaksterdam University.

 Ryan P. Miller (he/we/comrade) was born in Yelamu on Ramaytush Ohlone territory (San Francisco, CA). He’s a son, brother, “funcle” (fun-uncle), lover, and dog-dad of two. He served the American Empire and the military-industrial complex in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1998–2002 as a computer systems specialist, including during the occupation of Okinawa, Japan and South Korea, with deployments throughout Southeast Asia and Australia. Plant medicines (including cannabis and psychedelics) have supported Ryan’s mental health recovery, alongside activism, advocacy, Sun Dance ceremony, and over a dozen years of peer-led suicide prevention work with Compassionate Veterans. His work is grounded in a critical examination of U.S. militarism, empire, and the ethical contradictions of the veteran psychedelic movement. Ryan is currently a behavioral health clinician in San Francisco’s 6th Street corridor and maintains a private practice with Tender Heart Healing Arts.