Kevin Zeese

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kevin Zeese
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Oct 28, 1955(1955-10-28)
Age	69
Date Of Death	September 6, 2020, Baltimore, MD
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York City
Horoscope	Capricorn

Kevin Zeese Biography

Kevin Zeese is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on October 28, 1955 in New York City, New York City, United States. Zeese was born in New York City in 1955. He grew up in Queens, New York where he attended public schools. He received a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He graduated from the George Washington University Law School in 1980.

In 1994 he co-founded with businessman and philanthropist Robert E. Field and attorney Melvin R. Allen, Ph.D. Common Sense for Drug Policy. Zeese continues to serve as president of Common Sense. The organization ran 152 public service advertisements in Reason, The American Prospect, The National Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Progressive from 1999 to 2007. Common Sense has published Drug War Facts since 1998, providing facts and citations covering 47 issue-areas related to drug policy.

In 2002 he worked with Washington, D.C. area peace groups in opposing the war in Iraq including the Montgomery County Coalition Against War. In 2004 he joined with Ralph Nader’s Democracy Rising to make opposition to war a focus of the organization. In 2006 Zeese founded a national antiwar group, Voters for Peace, serving as its director until 2011.

Since 2003 Zeese has worked on a broad range of issues and third-party and independent electoral campaigns.

Zeese co-founded the Drug Policy Foundation (DPF) with Professor Arnold S. Trebach, JD in 1987 which merged with the Lindesmith Center in 2000 and is now the Drug Policy Alliance. Zeese served as Vice President and Counsel to DPF from 1986 to 1994. Drug Policy Foundation was the largest drug policy reform advocacy group until it merged with Drug Policy Alliance, now the largest reform group in U.S. history. Zeese was one of the founders in 1993 of Harm Reduction Coalition, which advocates for a public health approach to drug policy that reduces the harms from drug use and abuse. Harm Reduction Coalition is “driven by a commitment to drug user rights and social inclusion of marginalized communities” and has advocated for and helped put in place policies like needle exchange programs, treatment on request, overdose prevention strategies and low threshold access to methadone treatment among other issues.

Kevin Zeese Net Worth

Kevin Zeese is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kevin Zeese 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kevin Zeese (born October 28, 1955) is an American lawyer and political activist who has worked on a wide range of issues beginning with ending the war on drugs and mass incarceration, including helping to organize the 2011 Occupy encampment in Washington, D.C. at Freedom Plaza. He currently serves as co-director of Popular Resistance.

Zeese began his advocacy career as chief counsel for National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) in 1980 and served as NORML’s Executive Director from 1983 to 1986. During his time at NORML he helped stop the spraying of herbicides on marijuana in Mexico and the United States, and he became a leading advocate of the medical use of marijuana.

Zeese has been active in progressive third-party politics working with Green Party and independent candidates as well as running for office himself. His first involvement was in the campaign for Linda Schade who was running for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002 where he was an advisor to the campaign. In 2003, Zeese went to California to work on the gubernatorial campaign of Peter Camejo in the election that followed the recall of Governor Gray Davis. Zeese was involved in writing position papers and organizing grass roots support for Camejo.

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In 2016, Zeese served as an advisor to the U.S. Senate Campaign of Margaret Flowers.

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Kevin Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kevin Zeese celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.