who we are

 

Ana María Rivera-Forastieri
Program Director

Atara Rich-Shea
Program Director

Daniella Ponet
Project Associate

Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen
Program Director

Hyejin Shim
Organizing Coordinator

James Kilgore
Building Community Power Fellow

 

Mario Perez
Migrant Justice Organizing Fellow

Maru Mora Villalpando
Organizing Coordinator

Mon is an artist, organizer and writer from India, based in Lenapehoking (NYC) focusing on issues around jail closure, jail expansion and construction, abolition feminism, data ownership, disability justice and anti-caste solidarity. As part of the Community Justice Exchange Building Community Power Fellowship, she will be undertaking the further expansion of the No New Jails National Network, a network of campaigns across the country fighting to close jails and stop new jail construction. More of her work can be seen at pinkmohapatra.com.

Mon Mohapatra
Organizing Coordinator

 

Pilar Weiss
Executive Director

Puck Lo
Research Director

Rachel Foran
Program Director

 

Tiffany Richards
Project Associate

Yazan Zahzah
Organizing Coordinator

Zohra Ahmed
Strategic Advisor

Advisory Board

Andrea James, National Council of Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

Brenda Choresi Carter, Women Donors Network Reflective Democracy Campaign

Jee Park, Innocence Project-New Orleans

Jocelyn Simonson, Brooklyn Law School

Samah Sisay, Center for Constitutional Rights

Setareh Ghandehari, Detention Watch Network

*Organizational affiliation for identification only