Genna Walsh – Benowitz Law Corporation

Genna Walsh is a drug reform policy advocate and published author of psychedelics. While in law school, she wrote and published two articles in the American Bar Association’s Health eSource.

Access to Oregon’ s Psilocybin Services: Ballot Measure 109 Trailblazing the United States’ Psychedelic Drug Reform (Mar. 2023). Rescheduling Psilocybin: The Path to FDA Approval of Magic Mushrooms (Dec. 2023).

Genna is a member of the Psychedelic Bar Association and has been elected to serve a three term as an Executive Committee member on the Oregon State Bar’s Cannabis and Psychedelics Law section.

Genna is a litigation attorney at Benowitz Law Corporation where she represents Oregon employees on a wide variety of civil rights and employment law cases including employment contracts, at-will employment, discrimination, whistleblower protections, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, paid leave, wage and hour violations, workplace safety violations, employee misclassification, and class actions.

Genna earned her Bachelor of the Arts degrees in Literary Journalism and Political Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2009. She achieved her Juris Doctor degree from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon in 2024, with certificates in Health Law, Law & Business, and Advocacy and Dispute Resolution.

Genna shares a passion for advocacy work and believes in being a voice for clients who need support in asserting their rights. Genna is a skilled negotiator with a background navigating commercial and residential real estate transactions in Los Angeles since 2014.

Outside the practice of law, Genna enjoys all things health and wellness, yoga, hiking, snowboarding, cooking, walks with her pup Zelda, and spending time with her fiancé Austin, family, and friends.

Publications

• Access to Oregon’s Psilocybin Services: Ballot Measure 109 Trailblazing the United States’ Psychedelic Drug Reform (Mar. 2023)
• Rescheduling Psilocybin: The Path to FDA Approval of Magic Mushrooms (Dec. 2023)

Socials

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