Skip Murray

Volunteer

Public Health Advocate

Biography

“In her “day job”, Kim “Skip” Murray is a Direct Support Professional at a group home providing services to people living with disabilities. She is also a volunteer Public Health Advocate who uses her lived experience as a consumer of nicotine products and former vape shop owner to provide a meaningful voice in the Tobacco Harm Reduction space. She is a co-founder and content creator of the Safer Nicotine Wiki. Her passion project is Skip’s Corner, “A safe place to talk about hard things,” where she writes about living with a disability and composes newsletters about Tobacco Harm Reduction. She completed the Rutgers Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training course in 2023 and continues to help people stop smoking on a volunteer basis, combining her training from Rutgers with her previous experience of owning a vape shop to provide a multifaceted approach to smoking cessation.”

Skip’s Declaration of Interests:
The “day job” is in quotes because I work 3 am – 9 am.
My vape shop never sold products manufactured by the legacy tobacco companies. (“Big Tobacco”)
I worked at Taxpayers Protection Alliance from April 2022 to February 2024 as a Research Fellow for the Consumer Center. All my work was focused on tobacco harm reduction.