Meet our speakers

Our speakers include tribal members and attorneys who will be discussing the state’s past and present relationship with Native American nations, up to and including the recent legislative bill that aims to allow state-licensed cultivators and processors to sell cannabis to tribally licensed retailers.

Tyme Ferris
Full Name
Tyme Ferris
Job Title
Founder & CEO
Company
Pantheon Perspective LLC
Speaker Bio
Long time community, cannabis, environmental conservation, and lgbtq+ rights activist, Tyme Ferris has been a leader in the regulated cannabis market for nearly two decades. Currently he dedicates himself to these endeavors as the President of the Boonville Environmental Conservation Council (BECC), Board Member of the New York State Association of Conservation Commissions (NYSACC), Oneida County Pride Association (OCPA), Black River Valley Business & Community Alliance (BRVBCA), as well as being Founder and CEO of Pantheon Perspective LLC. Having made the jump from the fashion retail world to cannabis during the first of two medical programs rolled out in Colorado, Tyme has since consulted, partnered, and/or owned, companies in both the medical and adult-use markets in Colorado, Massachusetts, Vermont, and California. Now, Tyme adds his home state of New York to this list as he rolls out Pantheon Perspective, a cannabis lifestyle brand forging the way for conscientious capitalism through cannabis.
Christopher Scinta
Full Name
Christopher Scinta
Company
Pinnacle Employee Services
Speaker Bio
Thunder Anderson is a member of the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, currently living on tribal land in St. Lawrence County. A native of Upstate New York, he is the manager of Famous A’s, a local cannabis business in Massena licensed through the Mohawk Long House Council. Anderson is a father of four, and a community member dedicated to preserving plant medicine education in the Mohawk tradition.
Joseph Bondy
Full Name
Joseph Bondy
Job Title
Criminal Defense and Cannabis Business Attorney
Company
Law Offices of Joseph A. Bondy
Speaker Bio
Joseph Bondy is an internationally recognized expert in criminal litigation, named one of America’s Top 100 Attorneys and Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyers. A native of New York City, he is a graduate of Columbia University and Brooklyn Law School. With over 25 years of superlative trial and federal sentencing experience, Bondy has advised thousands of clients in complex criminal defense, cannabis business and advocacy, and crisis management matters. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a lifetime member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and serves on the faculty of Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP).
Matthew Leonardo
Full Name
Matthew Leonardo
Job Title
Principal
Company
Hinman Straub
Speaker Bio
Matt Leonardo is a member of Hinman Straub’s Health Law and Government Relations departments and represents indigenous nations in his practice. Previously, Leonardo served as the lead attorney for health care financing at the Department of Health.

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