WILLIAM JONES III, MPA
Smart Approaches to Marijuana
Director of Community Engagement & Outreach
Coming from a legacy of civil rights leaders in Washington, D.C, Will Jones serves as the Director of Community Engagement & Outreach at SAM. He is an experienced speaker and community activist working on issues of social justice at the local and national level.
Partnering with national drug policy advisors and leaders around Washington, D.C., in 2014 Jones founded Two Is Enough DC to raise awareness of the predatory marijuana commercial industry which disproportionally targets disenfranchised communities similar to Alcohol and Big Tobacco. He later started the campaign against marijuana legalization and commercialization in D.C.
Mr. Jones has been featured on a wide variety of TV, radio and print outlets talking about marijuana policy and other issues including NBC, Reuters TV, CBS, BBC World, Al Jazeera, C-span the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Associated Press.
Mr. Jones is also a husband, father and 3rd generation Washingtonian. He proudly serves as a DC Firefighter/EMT and obtained his MPA from the George Washington University school of public policy and administration.