Solonje Burnett

Solonje Burnett is a strategist, creator, breathwork guide, weed auntie, and co-founder and Chief Culture & Community Officer of erven.ai.

As a Grenadian + first gen Caribbean-American, she is dedicated to elevating the marginalized global majority in the cannabis industry and beyond. A multi-hyphenate, culture curator, joy bringer, brand strategist, and experience producer – Burnett focuses on creating brave inclusive and intersectional containers for holistic wellbeing rooted in connectivity and care while amplifying melanated practitioners, creatives, and entrepreneurs. She speaks, partners, and consults on brand education + marketing, social equity, sustainability, self care, sexual health, racial injustice, gender discrimination, and community empowerment.

erven.ai facilitates sustainable growth for brands + retailers through access to actionable data insights. Take charge of your data. Grow with trust. The premise of Weed Auntie is to curate moments of plant infused mindful connection + play centric education. Humans have a basic need for connection and belonging. Burnett works with clients to create their brand heart, essence, messaging, and identity so the interconnective elements shine through. Leveraging existing relationships with influencers, thought-leaders, media, wellbeing facilitators, creatives, artists, musicians, and culture innovators to create lasting partnerships, increase brand awareness and expand community commitment.

Much of her work is inspired by experience in workplace culture, strategy and design, cultural programming, executive event production spanning luxe leadership retreats to festivals, and DEI consulting. Brands like Daye, oHHo, CRUDE, Google, Bloomberg, Afropunk, Intersectional Environmentalist, Lululemon, Databricks, Summit Series, and Soho House have benefited from her expertise.

Burnett advocates for people first and is motivated by holistic sustainability, wellbeing and equity. She has extensive background in public speaking, nonprofit fundraising + marketing, leading startups, and talent buying. She sits on the board of the Floret Coalition, Broccoli Magazine’s anti-racist cannabis collective giving monthly donations to orgs prioritizing the communities most affected by the war on drugs. Burnett is a member of the 2023 Clio Cannabis Marketing & Advertising Jury. She performs with the creative protest group Resistance Revival Chorus. Burnett has been featured in publications like Marie Claire, Forbes, High Times, Instyle, Refinery29, Girl Boss, Black Enterprise, Atmos, Well+Good and VICE.

Solonje Burnett is available in partnership with Collective Speakers.