Genine Coleman is the Founder and Executive Director of Origins Council, a California nonprofit advocacy, education and research organization dedicated to sustainable rural economic development for rural cannabis producing regions. OC is partnered with regional associations based in rural legacy producing regions, and represents the collective members of these regional partner associations in OC’s programmatic activity. Her research interests are focused on community-based participatory research and appellations research. She is currently collaborating with university researchers on a state funded multi-disciplinary research project to study legacy cannabis genetics across California.