Stefanie Reiser

About Stefanie Reiser

Stefanie Reiser is the founder and CEO of Acknowledge, a new paradigm for premium CBD production. A serial entrepreneur and change-maker, Reiser has been consulting and founding successful businesses since 1993. In 2014, she founded Align Development LLC, a boutique development company with several built residential projects. Align Development also serves as the platform through which Reiser conceives and develops radically transformative ideas, and the projects that bring those to fruition. The Washington Business Journal recognized Reiser with the “Women Who Mean Business” award in 2016. More recently in 2019, Reiser founded The Nicholson Project, a paid artist residency program and community hub in Southeast DC. A past member of Mavericks and a current member of Cadre, Reiser believes in the power of human potential. A longtime student and policy wonk at the intersection of food, the environment, social equity, the arts, and community development, Reiser understands the power of conscious, impactful investment to transform places and communities. She is driven by a passion to create vibrant communities and help shape the world for the better. With the launch of Acknowledge, she now devotes her considerable energy and focus to regenerative farming in Western Maryland’s Pleasant Valley.

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Acknowledge Farms

   Sep 2019 — Present

   Acknowledge is a farm and an ethos. Our hemp farm is rooted in regenerative practices for the land, people and industry. A woman-led, East Coast company, our goal is to support the body as an ecosystem in the same way as our land.

Education

• Central College

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science and Government

  1981 — 1985

Skills

• Green Building
• Investment Properties
• Management
• Public Relations
• Urban Planning
• Feasibility Studies
• Landscape Design
• Interior Design
• Architectural Interiors