Celebrating M.O.gul Women of Excellence

Portia Mittons began her professional career as a civil engineer apprentice with Sargent & Lundy, shortly upon graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she studied civil engineering. Although she studied engineering, her inner M.O.gul screamed out for innovation and entrepreneurship. She has worked as a ballet instructor, closing officer, event planner for a non profit, consultant in the entertainment industry, even alongside Big Boi of Outkast on a dog shampoo before entering into the cannabis space. In 2016 she bet on herself and applied for a recreational cannabis retail license in Oregon with her then partner Cheryl. This self funded venture resulted in The Coughie Pot Dispensary. In 2019 she joined Bridge City Collective's Illinois team, where they were also awarded conditional licenses for adult use dispensary, craft grow, and transportation making her quite possibly the 1st black woman to hold cannabis licenses in multiple states. In March 2022 Portia changed partners at The Coughie Pot while increasing her ownership from 30% to 51% majority ownership.

While in Oregon Portia spent all her time working IN the cannabusiness but upon her return back to Illinois she was able to start to focus more ON the cannabusiness. Portia is discovering her passion in championing more inclusiveness and equity within the cannabis industry. This is partially done by utilizing the Legit Trappin forum to inform, educate, train, mentor, and connect professionals from all walks of business. In 2020 she added a Legit Trappin clothing line to encourage normalization of cannabis and the cannabis industry as a whole.www.legittrappin.com.

She sees the mantra “Legit Trappin” as a celebratory idiom that high-lights the hustle required to see a dream, idea, or concept into fruition and onto the market and to show homage to those who are working towards making their Trappin Legit.

Her leader and ownership accolades include:

Co-Owner The Coughie Pot Dispensary, 2017-present

Partner and VP Retail Bridge City Collective IL 2019-present Cook County Cannabis Commission

CBAI as Executive Committee Treasurer, Board of Directors & Chair of the Minority Access Committee

CIAO.(Cannabis Industry Alliance Oregon) as a board member

Oregon's Cannabis Equity Investment PAC member

Oregon Business Development Dept: Cannabis Steering Committee & Cannabis Market Analysis Steering Committee

Advisor, Illinois Cannabis Training Center