Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is one of an elite group of artists who have won the Grammy, the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Emmy and a Tony. She is also a prolific producer, bestselling author and entrepreneur and she is well-known around the world for her many humanitarian endeavors. Born and raised in New York City, she performed in San Diego and the Bay Area with the Blake Street Hawkeyes theatre troupe. It was there that she created the characters which became “The Spook Show” and evolved into her hit Broadway show, Grammy Award-winning album and the HBO special that helped launch her career.

Whoopi made her motion picture debut in Steven Spielberg’s film version of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” for which she earned an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Her performance in “Ghost” earned her the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and she has starred in such films as “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Clara’s Heart,” “The Long Walk Home,” “Soapdish,” “Sister Act,” “Made in America,” “Boys on the Side,” “Ghosts of Mississippi,” “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” “Girl, Interrupted,” and such animated classics as “The Lion King” and “Toy Story 3.”

Whoopi has recurring roles on Amazon’s “Harlem” and the EPIX series, “Godfather of Harlem.” She reprised her iconic role of Guinan in season two of the Paramount+ series, “Star Trek: Picard” and lent her voice to the recent animated features “Luck” (Apple TV+) and “My Father’s Dragon” (Netflix). She starred in the 2020 adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling novel “The Stand,” and she appeared in and produced the critically-acclaimed feature film, “Till,” which has amassed countless awards and honors since its release in late 2022. She will appear in the highly-anticipated Amazon Prime Video series based on Neil Gaiman’s “Anansi Boys.”

Her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, is out May 7 and she will publish her first graphic novel, The Change, this Summer.

Dr. Junella Chin

Dr. Junella Chin is an advocate for better understanding of the science and medicine of cannabis. At her practice, MedLeafRx, she and her team of doctors are bicoastal, servicing patients of California and New York. They have been integrating medical cannabis into treatment since 2001. Her work has been featured in in St. Jude’s Medical, Huffington Post, USA Today, and NBC TODAY, among others. Her new book, Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness, will be released through Penguin Random House in June 2019.

Senator Daylin Leach

State Senator Daylin Leach represents part of Montgomery County and parts of Delaware County. Formerly an attorney and college professor, he is now the Pennsylvania legislature's leading voice on progressive issues.

Danielle Dwyer

Danielle Dwyer (“Yin”) was born in Tarzana, California in 1982. Yin now lives in Bellingham, WA with her husband and five year-old son, Waldo. For the last four years, she has been practicing Thai Bodywork and currently runs the Open Healing Clinic, a donations-based community clinic that supports self-healing through alternative medicine. Yin is an advocate for mindful cannabis use and, having studied holistic medicine for nearly a decade, believes in its profound natural health applications. She loves to sing, often with her Bellingham-based Wild Choir, and loves to swim in natural bodies of water and connect with others.

Lily Derwin

Lily is married with three children and lives in Colorado. In June, 2018 she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage 4. She splits her treatments between the University of Colorado in Denver and Memorial Sloan Kettering in Westchester. Right from the beginning, Lily vowed to “not be a statistic” and “to live in love, not fear”. Lily met Dr. Chin last July through MSK and has been following her cannabis protocol ever since. At her last CT scan (3/2019), the tumor in the pancreas and liver had shrunk by 20%.