Dominic Corva received his PhD in Geography from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2010. He is the Director of Cannabis Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, co-Director of the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research, Cannabis Policy Specialist for the California Center for Rural Policy at Cal Poly Humboldt, and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy, a 501c3 research and education nonprofit he co-founded in 2013. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Humboldt Area People's Archive (HAPA) and a member of the regional Countercultural History Coalition (CHC). He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Studies (2021).