Stefanie Jones is one of the United States’ leading advocates for a harm reduction approach to alcohol and other drug use in nightlife, festivals and events. During her 16-year career with the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), a national advocacy nonprofit working to end the drug war and promote drug policies centered in health and social and racial justice, she founded and ran the Safer Partying program, which partnered with production companies like Insomniac (EDC Vegas, Escape, Beyond Wonderland), The Do Lab (Lightning in a Bottle) and Made Event (Electric Zoo NY) to adopt harm reduction principles and practices at their events. Stefanie has hired, trained, and managed onsite teams engaged in drug education, safety and mental health support at festivals as well as written and edited health and safety social and marketing content for these events. She has also promoted drug checking, a harm reduction practice testing substances for adulterants and engaging people who use drugs in conversations about their safety and well-being.While at DPA, Stefanie also oversaw the creation of Safety First, the first harm reduction-based drug education curriculum for high school students. Safety First has been independently evaluated as effective and is now actively used in an ever-growing number of schools across the U.S. In her earliest roles with DPA, Stefanie produced four progressively larger editions of the biennial International Drug Policy Reform Conference, as well as numerous local policy conferences, fundraisers and coalition-building meetings. Most recently, she served as DPA’s interim managing director of communications for two years, overseeing all external communications and helping direct overall organizational policy as part of the senior management team. She is now freelance consulting as a harm reduction advocate and based in the Boston area.