Access | Health | Economic Development
Founder & Owner, Top Notch THC | Executive Director, The Ogden Family Foundation
Kema Ogden is a Nevada-based entrepreneur, advocate, and community builder whose work spans healthcare, economic development, and civic leadership. For more than a decade, she has built and led organizations oriented around a single through-line: making sure people have what they need to live well, financially and in their health.
She is the founder of Top Notch THC and co-founder of The Ogden Family Foundation, which provides direct emergency support and health and wellness resources to Nevada families in crisis. Before entering the cannabis industry, Kema owned and operated a nonprofit medical clinic serving underserved and high-risk populations, and a specialty pharmacy focused on integrative and alternative care options. That work grounded her understanding of whole-person wellness and the structural barriers that keep people from accessing it.
In Nevada’s cannabis industry, Kema was among the first to operate before a social equity pathway existed, and then helped build that pathway so others could follow. She has served on the Cannabis Compliance Board and as an executive board member of Doctors for Drug Policy Reform, where she has advocated for responsible regulation, consumer education, and equitable access to the industry.
As Board Chair of the Urban Chamber of Commerce and Chair of the Government Affairs Committee, she works at the intersection of small business policy and community health, building bridges between entrepreneurs, civic officials, and the institutions that shape opportunity in Southern Nevada.
Kema is also a breast cancer survivor, an experience that deepened her firsthand understanding of the barriers patients face and sharpened her commitment to whole-person, community-centered care. She brings that perspective to her foundation work, her advocacy, and every room she walks into.
Her work is guided by three pillars: access, health, and economic development. Not as categories, but as conditions. She believes they are inseparable, and that real change requires moving all three at once.
