Jamie Ducharme

Jamie Ducharme is a health correspondent at TIME magazine and the author of the new book (and upcoming docuseries) Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul. Big Vape builds upon Jamie's years of reporting on Juul, vaping, and the e-cigarette industry, taking readers behind the scenes as Juul grew from a Stanford thesis project to a massively popular product infamous for hooking teenagers on nicotine. In addition to her reporting on vaping, Jamie has helped lead TIME's COVID-19 coverage over the course of the pandemic. Her work has won awards from the New York Press Club, the Deadline Club, and the Newswomen's Club of New York.

Robin Koval

Robin Koval is CEO and President of Truth Initiative®, the national public health organization dedicated to achieving a culture where all young people reject smoking, vaping, and nicotine. An acclaimed leader in the advertising and marketing world, and New York Times best-selling author, Koval joined Truth Initiative in 2013. She’s led the successful re-launch of the award-winning and lifesaving truth® youth tobacco prevention campaign and expanded the organization’s world-class research, public education, youth activism, and digital cessation programs to also combat the youth e-cigarette epidemic.

Dr. Amanda Graham

Amanda Graham is Chief of Innovations at Truth Initiative who leads a cross-functional team that develops, evaluates, and markets digital products for tobacco cessation. Under her leadership, and in collaboration with partners at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Graham led the development of the EX^® Program, an enterprise digital tobacco cessation platform designed for employers and health plans, and This Is Quitting, a first-of-its-kind quit vaping program for teens and young adults. Dr. Graham is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and is internationally recognized as a thought leader in digital smoking interventions.

Meredith Berkman

Meredith Berkman is a co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes, a national advocacy and education organization created in 2018 by three concerned moms as a grassroots response to the youth vaping epidemic. Powered by parent volunteers across the country, PAVe advocates at the local, state, and federal levels for an end to sales of all flavored e-cigarettes and all menthol and other flavored tobacco products. PAVe’s educational initiative provides free training, resources, and materials in both Spanish and English that empower parents to educate others in their own communities about the dangers of youth vaping and the predatory behavior of Big Tobacco. Berkman, a mother of four, is a graduate of Brown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Dr. Rachel Boykan

Dr. Rachel Boykan is Professor of Pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Associate Pediatric Residency Director for the Stony Brook Pediatric Residency Program and a pediatric hospitalist at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. In 2012 Dr. Boykan spearheaded a partnership between Stony Brook Children’s and the New York State Smokers’ Quitline Opt-to-Quit™ Program – the first implementation of this electronic referral program at a children’s hospital. Dr. Boykan works closely with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to address smoking exposure in children and use of electronic cigarettes in teenagers. Since 2014, Dr. Boykan has served as a member of AAP’s Tobacco Consortium and since 2018, she has been the Education and Membership Chair of the AAP Section on Tobacco Control.

Sam (former vaper)

Sam is a 19-year-old former vaper from Gaffney, South Carolina, who attends the University of South Carolina Upstate. Sam began using e-cigarettes at the age of 16 during his sophomore year of high school and made several attempts to quit. After seeing a recent truth campaign proving that it’s possible to quit for good, he was inspired to stop vaping once and for all. Sam has been nicotine-free for over three months now.