Concepcion, Ava

CommissionerIndependent & Quasi-public Agencies

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Year Started Current Position 2021
Years in Current Position 6
Job Description To establish, regulate, and oversee the Commonwealth’s medical and adult use marijuana industry.

Education
- Boston Latin Academy
- B.A Criminology, Johnson C. Smith University
- J.D. New England Law.
Previous Employment
- Director, Governmental Affairs and External Partnerships, Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
- Staff, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Conference Committee on the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2018
- Victim Witness Advocate, Boston Municipal Court
- Boston Department of Neighborhood Development
- Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board
- Counsel, State Senator William Brownsberger
- Staff member, U.S. Majority Whip James E. Clayburn's Office
- staff member, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley's office
- former Boston City Council candidate.
Organizations
- Member, Massachusetts Bar
- Board member, United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley
- Member, Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association
- Board Member, Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus PAC.

The mission of the Cannabis Control Commission is to honor the will of the voters of Massachusetts by safely, equitably and effectively implementing and administering the laws enabling access to medical and adult use marijuana in the Commonwealth.
The Commission will foster the creation of a safely regulated industry that will create entrepreneurial and employment opportunities and incremental tax revenues in and to communities across the state and which will be a best practice model for other states. The industry will be characterized by participation by small and larger participants and with full and robust participation by minorities, women and veterans. We will develop policies and procedures to encourage and enable full participation in the marijuana industry by people from communities that have previously been disproportionately harmed by marijuana prohibition and enforcement and positively impact those communities.