Shaleen Title is a lawyer, activist, and adjunct professor focused on regulations for emerging industries including cannabis and artificial intelligence. She is a former top cannabis regulator for the state of Massachusetts, where she served as a commissioner of the Cannabis Control Commission from 2017 to 2020. Since 2021, she has held the position of Distinguished Cannabis Policy Practitioner in Residence at The Ohio State University’s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center.

Her published reports examine current issues including racial justice, interstate commerce, and corporate capture. Her paper Bigger is Not Better: Preventing Monopolies in the National Cannabis Market was SSRN’s second-most downloaded antitrust article in the world in 2022. She teaches a graduate course on cannabis policy, politics, and regulations at Thomas Jefferson University’s Institute of Emerging Health Professions.

Her work as a marijuana legalization activist spanned two decades. Her leadership was widely recognized, earning her NORML’s Hunter S. Thompson Young Attorney Award, designation as a High Times Freedom Fighter, and inclusion on the Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40, Forbes Cannabis, and Boston Magazine Power List – the latter dubbing her “the people’s weed watchdog.” In 2025, the Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition established the annual Shaleen Title Ignite Award in her honor.

Her op-eds and other written work have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, and Marijuana Moment. She is regularly cited in the press, including Politico, The Guardian, A More Perfect Union, Rolling Stone, and Newsweek. She has been a founding board member of influential organizations including Parabola Center for Law and Policy and Minority Cannabis Business Association. She is a triple graduate of the University of Illinois with a law degree from the College of Law and a graduate degree from the College of Business.