Tracie Gardner, Senior Vice President of Policy Advocacy

The Impact of the War on Drugs and the Recovery Movement for Black Communities

As Legal Action Center’s Senior Vice President of Policy Advocacy, Tracie oversees both the New York and Federal policy advocacy work on LAC’s core issues related to substance use, harm reduction, and criminal legal system reform. Tracie has worked more than 30 years in the health and social services policy arena as a policy advocate, trainer,…

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Waltrina E. DeFrantz-Dufor, Ph.D.

Waltrina E. DeFrantz-Dufor, Ph.D., is the Director of the Collegiate Recovery Program at the University of Denver in Denver, CO, and uses the pronouns she/her/hers. She has over 18 years of experience in helping people in recovery from addiction during her 25-year tenure in higher education in student and academic affairs. Waltrina lost a 20…

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Will M. Aklin, PhD

Will M. Aklin, Ph.D., is Chief of the Clinical Research Grants Branch of the Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and director of the Behavioral Therapy Development Program. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland—College Park. Dr. Aklin’s areas of research include…

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Willie Pearl Evans, MAPL – Master of Advocacy and Political Leadership

My contribution to the panel discussion will focus on addressing stigma using a harm reduction approach: Person center language Harm reduction Substance use disorder education

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