About Luna Stower
Building sustainable, conscious business practices through intentional social justice campaigns & medical rights advocacy.
Named "Cannabis Culture Advocate of the Year" by the Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, Luna has been instrumental in helping operators navigate a complex industry, ensuring they survive & thrive.
Follow Luna's journey to normalize plant medicine leaders & wellness companies as healers... not "dealers."
Follow Luna's journey to normalize plant medicine leaders & wellness companies as healers... not "dealers."
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INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
With a Master's Degree in Education, a decade in public school teaching and 10+ years managing canna-businesses, Luna's high-level insights have scaled & activated dozens of wellness brands with purpose & passion. |
DIVERSE EXPERIENCE
Insightful revenue-driving sales & marketing strategy with a laser-focus on data analytics, media content, and Industry-specific Best Practices. Everything from high-level SOP's and project mgmt to granular nuances and all functions in-between. |
LASTING IMPACT
Seasoned international speaker, educator, competition judge, conference panelist & industry-insider; producing renowned VIP industry soirees, awards, trade shows, consumption and sales-focused concerts and festivals & high-end tasting events. |
Vision & Mission
Love is Lucrative.
Core Values include: Integrity, Quality, Ethical Stewardship, Transparency, Healthy Disruption, Empowerment & Sustainability
Core Values include: Integrity, Quality, Ethical Stewardship, Transparency, Healthy Disruption, Empowerment & Sustainability
Compliance & AdvocacyPassionate, grassroots engagement in equity policy & compliance to ensure operators meet their "bottom line" while giving back.
Raised & based in Oakland, CA - the industry's epicenter - Luna's influence on state & local regulations has ensured safe access for patients & equity programs for marginalized groups. |
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Organic InfluenceA taste-maker who generates authentic engagement, organic media buzz and drives brand awareness via consistent presence at key industry events, all while track vital market trends in the entheogen and hemp spaces.
Seeing obstacles as opportunities, Luna is a respected thought-leader who embraces & utilizes healthy tension. |
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Field PresenceGlobal Business experience ranging from B2B white label hardware solutions to nationwide sales director experience for licensed brands.
Well-known for producing world class events with high-impact, high-touch service, Luna's best known for helping shape the CA licensed retail landscape, with measurable results in both mainstream & niche markets. |
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Community Impact
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As a lifelong advocate for the plant & people, Luna has been instrumental to the success of widely-recognized legacy brands, nurturing their stability, success & spearheading their social responsibility actions and nourishing their brand loyalty.
Luna is an industry-veteran whose roots in community activism anchors others to higher purpose, rich historical perspective & an expansive professional network of sophisticated, trusted operators they can rely on. Her network, spanning across the hemp & regulated spaces, includes (not limited to): Ispire Vape, Jetty Extracts, Jetty CBD, Harborside, Champs Trade Shows, Blue River, Advesa Wellness, Dixie Elixirs, Ispire Vape, Bloom Network, Quim, Atlas Edibles, Click Spray, Dennis Hopper's Reserve by Fiorello, a pot for Pot, Plexus Media, Lucid Mood, Jane's Brew, CannaF.A.M.E., Neswell BioPharma Israel, K Griffin Style, St. Louis Canna Club. Non-Profit partners: This is Jane Project, Op. E.V.A.C., The Social Impact Center, The Origins Council, Sweetleaf Collective, Humanity Heroes, & Veterans Walk and Talk. As Women Grow chair-woman she co-hosted networking events with world-class brands, and was a founding member at the 1st two events in CA's Music Festival history to legally vend medical cannab*s at Northern Nights Music Festival + Outside Lands' adult-only "Grasslands" in 2018 and '19.
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Distributing Compassionate Medicinal Donations with Ryan Miller of Operation E.V.A.C. (Compassionate Veteran) to Vets in Oakland, care of CA SB 34!
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Bio.
Luna Stower is Chief Impact Officer at Ispire Vape Technology (previously VP of Bus. Dev.). With over a decade of experience in the Cannabiz, she was a key member in building CA legacy brands like Jetty Extracts, Steep Hill Lab, and Blue River Terpenes.
With a Master's degree from the University of San Francisco & BA in Social Justice from UC Santa Cruz, Luna blends her knowledge of the consumer retail market with a passion for social and plant-medicine justice.
Named "Cannabis Culture Advocate of the Year" in 2021 by the Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, her impact on drug policy has been instrumental to local decriminalization measures and first-of-its-kind Social Equity initiatives. An internationally-recognized industry expert, Luna is featured on B2B panels, podcasts, summits and consumer expos as a renowned thought-leader. She is a moderator at the Emerald Cup Haravest Ball Speaker Series, and sits as a judge for the esteemed awards competitions "The Emerald Cup," as well as Mila The Hash Queen's "Dab-a-Doo," and HQ Barcelona's "Masters of Rosin" in Spain's Spannabis Fair.
With a Master's degree from the University of San Francisco & BA in Social Justice from UC Santa Cruz, Luna blends her knowledge of the consumer retail market with a passion for social and plant-medicine justice.
Named "Cannabis Culture Advocate of the Year" in 2021 by the Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, her impact on drug policy has been instrumental to local decriminalization measures and first-of-its-kind Social Equity initiatives. An internationally-recognized industry expert, Luna is featured on B2B panels, podcasts, summits and consumer expos as a renowned thought-leader. She is a moderator at the Emerald Cup Haravest Ball Speaker Series, and sits as a judge for the esteemed awards competitions "The Emerald Cup," as well as Mila The Hash Queen's "Dab-a-Doo," and HQ Barcelona's "Masters of Rosin" in Spain's Spannabis Fair.
Named "Cannabis Culture Advocate of the Year" by the Cannabis Chamber of Commerce.