Staff Members
Administration
Edward Shurna
Executive Director
Jim Field
Associate Executive Director &
Director of Organizing
Thelma Morales
Administrative Director
Cheryl Lenisa
Finance Manager
Sherry Johnson
Office Manager
Development
Michael Nameche
Director of Development
Anne Bowhay
Director, Foundation Relations & Media
Claire Sloss
Development Associate
Community Organizing
Hannah Willage
Associate Director of Organizing
Organizer, Speakers Bureau / Online Media
Wayne Richard
Senior Community Organizer
Fair Care Coalition & Horizons creative writing outreach
Dollie Brewer
Senior Community Organizer
Women’s Empowerment Project
Rachel Leonor Ramirez
Community Organizer
Reentry Project & Survivor Advocacy Group Empowered (SAGE)
Jim Picchetti
Community Organizer
Statewide Network & Jobs Project
Advocacy and Public Policy
Julie Dworkin
Director of Policy
Eithne McMenamin
Associate Director of Policy
Jennifer Cushman
Policy Specialist
Law Project
Laurene Heybach
Director of the Law Project
Patricia Nix-Hodes
Associate Director of the Law Project
Beth Cunningham
Youth Futures Attorney
Graham Bowman
Equal Justice Works Fellow -
Youth Futures attorney
Monica Mahan
Social Worker
Support Staff
Aurora Lares
Maintenance
Jose Vasquez
Office & Organizing Support
Charles Austin
Office Support
Interns
Emily Berkman, Development
Jody Blaylock, Policy
Adrianna Fisher, Horizons
Jeff Gilliland, Development
Melissa Kaminskas, Organizing
J.D. Klippenstein, Speakers Bureau & Education Committee
Dzeneta Mesinovic, Speakers Bureau
Nisa Wilson, Law
