NJ Cannabis Insider will reveal the Publisher’s Choice awards winners leading up to the gala
, we are announcing the Publisher’s Choice awards in advance. Today, we put a spotlight on the inaugural winner of the Community Game Changer of the Year:, Inc. She worked in the trenches in the successful campaign to legalize cannabis use in New Jersey and launch a state-licensed market.
Her advocacy at public hearings and behind the scenes has shaped policy decisions around the licensing process. Gonzalez and her family emigrated from the highlands of Ecuador to Jersey City when she was 3. By the time she graduated high school, she had moved eight times in lower-income neighborhoods, which allowed gang-related crime to flourish. Gonzalez said she pursued a career as a lawyer for the knowledge and financial security she craved as a child.
Gonzalez was the first in her family to graduate from a four-year college, Boston University, and the first to complete graduate school, Suffolk University Law School in Boston.She was just recognized as a Cannabis Law Trailblazer by the National Law Journal.
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