In her own words, Lelehnia describes her upbringing. “I grew up between two very opposite worlds. One where your body, your clothes, your trinkets, spoke to who you were. The other was in the Emerald Triangle, where those things just didn’t matter. Those “things” didn’t keep your pipes from bursting. Those “things” didn’t deliver your baby safely. Those “things” didn’t put a roof over your head or food on your table. What did? YOU and the people around you. A community where you couldn’t hide who you were so you just lived it. For the good or the bad, we all saw it. Everyone knew what you had, what you were good at, what you were up to, whom you were sleeping with…it was intimate.”
From this description, we begin to understand that for Lelehnia, community is a living value. It is no surprise that she is now Chief Community Officer of Canopyright, a new platform that allows ‘cannabis breeders to register their cannabis strains, for free, using time-stamped physical plant samples in tamper evident containers.’
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