Laury LucienCompany: Cami Flower
Title: Founder and CEO
Age: 38
Cami Flower CEO Laury Lucien says her parents wanted her to be a doctor, but they might be happy with the extraordinary list of accomplishments she’s made in her academic and professional life.
“I am only immersing myself in products that are solely medicinal,” she says. “I’m still healing people, Mom.”
Lucien moved to Boston from Haiti in 2002. She graduated from high school when she was 15 and eventually graduated magna cum laude from Suffolk University Law School.
In addition to running her cannabis brand, Lucien is an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School and Clark University where she teaches cannabis law. She is also a board member of Equal Opportunities Now, a nonprofit working to create an equitable marijuana industry; education director for the Parabola Center, a nonpartisan think tank of legal professionals and drug policy experts who advocate for better drug policy; and a member of the Massachusetts Cannabis Advisory Board.
“Policy work is extremely important to me,” she says, pointing out she’s been able to educate hundreds of people at the two universities, including three former students who now work at the Cannabis Control Commission. “Being able to see other people flourish has been my greatest joy.”
Lucien is currently ramping up R&D at Cami Flower to debut the company’s new line of infused teas this fall. The company is also working on a more traditional line of teas for non-cannabis retailers.
“My mom still thinks that I should go to medical school,” Lucien says. “Any time my mom says that, I’m like, ‘Thank you, thank you for that,’ … I need to be a humble person.”