CEO, Founder, Medical Innovator, Inventor, Creator, Problem Solver
Aisha McCain is a natural entrepreneur with the heart of a healer and the personality of a fighter. She has supported herself since leaving home at age 14. Having lived in Texas, Germany, Spain, and now California, she has diverse experiences and is fluent in Spanish. Ms. McCain has survived incarceration, breast cancer, and adverse childhood events. Despite this she has a lifetime of community service starting when her mother would take a very young Aisha to visit nursing homes and shunned AIDS patients. Ms. McCain was instrumental in medical marijuana legislation, representing patients on a panel to the San Jose City Council. Additionally, she has become a community resource for cancer patients and, more generally, advocate for minority patients’ rights. The non-traditional path Ms. McCain has traveled requires drive, tenacity, and creativity. While in prison she earned her GED, received counseling, and learned patience, connecting to a higher power. Always a poet, she found time to write five books of poetry and prose which she plans to publish soon. In order to found Casual Recovery, she worked tirelessly for several years while undergoing more than ten major surgeries with complications and illness. Ms. McCain had surgical drains even as she struggled to improve the lives of others. She clearly brings new perspectives as both a patient and an inventor. As a leader, she delegates well, asks incisive questions, and seeks out expert advice. Ms. McCain assembled a team separated by geography and background, but united in vision and philosophy.
