Eric Steenstra
President, Vote Hemp
Eric Steenstra is a hemp industry pioneer beginning in 1993 as a co-founder and CEO of hemp clothing and lifestyle brand Ecolution. Steenstra was a founding member of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and served as its Executive Director from 2007 through 2016. During that time he grew HIA membership by more than 300%. Steenstra now serves as the president of Vote Hemp, the political advocacy organization that he cofounded in 2000. Vote Hemp lead the effort to get legislation passed to bring back commercial hemp farming at the state and federal level leading to the inclusion of hemp provisions in the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills.