Dominique Coronel is a Chicanx activist, community organizer, and entrepreneur. As Board of Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Dom helped lead the youth movement to legalize cannabis in Illinois with a focus on social equity. They are a spokesperson for the DePaul USA Dax program for homeless college students, appearing on various networks including CBS Sunday Morning, Vice News, NBC, Chicago Sun Times, and Aljazeera, to advocate for homeless college students in Chicago and throughout the United States. They have resolved to spend their life advocating for change: change to a system that snatched their parents away and left them homeless for much of their youth, change to the exclusions from the formal economy that people of color have too long endured. Coronel’s adult life and career have been an exercise in transmuting pain into power.Coronel has been featured in High Times Magazine for their cannabis advocacy and has been trained by Brandon Banks, former CEO of a major cannabis company in Colorado on cannabis breeding, genetics, taxonomy, varieties and cannabinoid profiles. They have also been trained on cannabis marketing and cannabis industry macroeconomic principles, particularly with regard to different strains and product brands. Additionally, they have been trained in the effect of different product modalities and how to provide safe consumer education, including but not limited to instructions for safe consumption of edibles and storage of cannabis products. Previously, Dom spent 8 years working in electoral politics as a fundraiser, field organizer, and chief of strategy for local, state, and federal campaigns.