User:Corringreen/Durrie Parks

Durrie Anne Craig Parks is an American media producer, activist, and entrepreneur, who gained initial prominence in the Los Angeles music industry of the 1960/70's, and more recently in the Arizona film community.

Parks was the first female executive at Warner Bros. Records, as well as a speaker at the first Earth Day celebration in 1970. A board member of the Arizona Film Society, she produced film festivals in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona during the 1980's and 1990's.

Her current (2011) activities include forming an organization to ensure the responsible implementation of Arizona's new medicinal marijuana regulations. The organization, Grams, also intends to de-stigmatize marijuana use among patients with chronic ailments for which the substance has been found to be helpful.

Parks has a daughter, and currently resides in Mesa, Arizona.