Cresco Labs, a Chicago-based marijuana multistate operator, appointed Michele Roberts to its board of directors, making the executive director of the NBA players union the first person of color on the board.
The Cresco board currently consists of eight white men.
The announcement comes a few days after Cresco’s co-founder and former president, Joe Caltabiano, resigned from the board, thus cutting all executive ties with the company he helped found in 2013.