Contributors

Although she wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth, Dianne Armitage has spent considerable time trying to remove her foot. This quest has introduced her to fascinating people and interesting situations with stories that beg to be told. When not searching for shiny objects, Dianne spends her time writing blog pieces, humor columns, and feature articles. A three-time breast cancer survivor/warrior, she wrote a humor column, Feeling Kinda Funny, for a breast cancer website for 15 years.

Ellie Carr (her pen name) is a writer from San Diego, California. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA in English from Humboldt State University. She was an editor, event coordinator, and art director for two student driven publications. Ellie writes about the mysteries of the body and mind through memoir, personal essays, and flash fiction. Her preferred genres are psychological thriller and dark comedy, but she is known to write a happy ending from time to time. She is a self-taught botanist and literary enthusiast who enjoys cooking and outdoor activities like hiking and kayaking.

Amy Marie Orozco loves writing for and editing CBTS magazine. “It is a very exciting time to be in the cannabis industry, and I love learning so much every single day,” she explains. Most of Amy’s writing is of the nonfiction, journalism flavor, and she also has penned a couple of plays, short stories, and lots of letters. Staff members describe Amy as pretty affable (for an editor), though she can be prickly and show-offy with the grammar rules no one else follows.

Seana-Marie Sesma, an eighth-generation Santa Barbara native and founder of Mary Jane Services Network, specializes in commercial cannabis license processing, which includes managing regulatory compliance for maintaining local and state licenses. MJSN is a hard-working, educated, and engaged team of content writers, project managers, and industry professionals who create application specific documentation that adheres to regulations set forth by the local and state regulatory agencies — this can be deleted, if you need the filler, use it. During the past five years working in the cannabis licensing space, Ms. Sesma has successfully led commercial cannabis entrepreneurs throughout California to successfully acquire and maintain their local and state licenses in all cannabis activities.