
2016 Communications Institute
Ronald Bey-Simpson
Alumni Associate, JustLeadershipUSARonald D. Simpson-Bey is the Alumni Associate for JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) and a 2015 Leading with Conviction Fellow with JLUSA. He serves on the steering team of the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI), a former Program Associate with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), and Research Assistant at the University...
Get To know RonaldJanaé Bonsu
National Public Policy Chair, Black Youth Project 100Janaé Bonsu is a Black queer feminist activist-scholar and organizer with over five years of policy research and advocacy experience. She currently serves as the National Public Policy Chair of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), an activist member-led organization of Black 18- to 35-year-olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom...
Get To know JanaéDanny Cendejas
Organizing Director, Detention Watch NetworkDanny Cendejas joined Detention Watch Network as Organizing Director in 2016. Previously, Danny organized with Texas Organizing Project. While with Texas Organizing Project, Danny drove the immigrants' rights campaign in Dallas and then statewide as Immigration Campaign Field Director. Danny graduated from the University of Virginia in 2011 with a...
Get To know DannyAstrid Dominguez
Advocacy Coordinator, ACLU of TexasAstrid Dominguez joined the ACLU of Texas in May 2012 as a Border Rights Fellow coordinating the U.S.-Mexico Binational Abuse Documentation Project at the Texas border. She later transitioned to the position of Advocacy Coordinator for the Lower Rio Grande Valley office. Astrid has focused her work in the Rio...
Get To know AstridVicki Gaubeca
Director, ACLU-New Mexico Regional Center for Border RightsIn 2009, Vicki Gaubeca became the director of the ACLU-New Mexico (ACLU-NM) Regional Center for Border Rights, based in Las Cruces, where she has helped develop and implement its mission of addressing civil and human rights violations that stem from border-specific immigration policy and enforcement. The Center stands with border...
Get To know VickiAndi Gentile
Youth Justice Policy Strategist, Impact Justice’s Center on Youth Registration ReformAndi is the Youth Justice Policy Strategist for the Center on Youth Registration Reform (CYRR) at Impact Justice in Oakland, CA. Before joining the CYRR, Andi was a community organizer in worker-justice and queer and trans youth organizations in New York City and Austin. She also worked with the Texas...
Get To know AndiKimberly Gonzalez
Miami Coordinator, Dream DefendersKimberly Gonzalez is a 30-year-old queer Latina and Miami native by way of Cuba and Puerto Rico. She joined the Dream Defenders in July of 2012 and has participated in various campaigns including the 2012 Freedom Fall campaign, the Dream Era campaign that launched on the first day of the...
Get To know KimberlyShena Gutierrez
Co-Founding Member, Border Patrol Victims NetworkShena Gutierrez has dedicated her life to advocating for social change and laying the foundation to shift America’s conversation about law enforcement, in particular holding Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest law-enforcement agency in the nation, accountable. On March 30, 2011, Shena’s husband, José Gutierrez, was brutally beaten by...
Get To know ShenaDr. James A. Kirk
Professor, Columbia UniversityDr. James has over a decade of leadership experience in various social service fields. He is a well-respected writer, educator, clinician, and speaker on issues pertaining to social justice. His primary research focuses on deconstructing issues of mass incarceration — specifically as it pertains to trauma, cognitive development, culpability, and...
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California State Director, Drug Policy AllianceLynne Lyman is the California state director for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), where she leads the criminal justice reform work. A native of Los Angeles with an M.P.A. from Harvard, Lynne joined DPA in 2012 after working with government and civil rights organizations in California and Massachusetts on policy,...
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