Staff Members
Administration
Edward Shurna
Executive Director
Thelma Morales
Administrative Director
Cheryl Lenisa
Finance Manager
Sherry Johnson
Office Manager
Development
Michael Nameche
Director of Development
Anne Bowhay
Director, Foundation Relations / Media Coordinator
Lindsey Wallem
New Media Associate
Community Organizing
Jim Field
Director of Organizing
Wayne Richard
Senior Community Organizer
Fair Care Coalition & Horizons creative writing outreach
Dollie Brewer
Senior Community Organizer
Women’s Empowerment Project
Rachel Ramirez
Community Organizer
Reentry Project & Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART)
Hannah Willage
Senior Community Organizer
Speakers Bureau / Media
Jim Picchetti
Community Organizer
Jobs Project
Advocacy and Public Policy
Julie Dworkin
Director of Policy
Eithne McMenamin
Associate Director, City Affairs
Daria Mueller
Associate Director, State Affairs
Law Project
Laurene Heybach
Director of the Law Project
Patricia Nix-Hodes
Associate Director
Beth Cunningham
Youth Attorney
Santiago Valencia-Castrillón
Paralegal
Monica Mahan
Social Worker (Volunteer)
Barbara Chasnoff
College Scholarship Coordinator (Volunteer)
Support Staff
Aurora Lares
Maintenance
Jose Vasquez
Office & Organizing Support
2011-12 Interns
Ben Anderson, Speakers Bureau
Liz Brice, Speakers Bureau
Alyssa Copenhaver, Organizing
Mushtaq Fsyed, Organizing
Lydia Gajdel, Speakers Bureau
Claude King, Horizons
Jennifer Nyhuis, Policy
Sonovia Petty, Organizing & Office Support
Claire Sloss, Development & Policy
Abby Toms, Policy
