Our Fellows
The Opportunity Agenda’s Communications Institute Fellows are media-ready experts on some of the country’s most urgent challenges, coming largely from communities most affected by those challenges. For journalists seeking voices with a grassroots perspective that links economic opportunity, criminal justice, immigrant opportunity, and racial justice issues to the lived experiences of Americans, Communications Fellows are ideal spokespeople.
Jamila Hammami
Executive Director, Queer Detainee Empowerment ProjectJamila is a queer first-generation Tunisian- Arab woman of color community organizer and social worker from the South now based in New York. She is a Founder and Executive Director of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project. She is a graduate of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College...
Get To know JamilaSarah Harris
Press Secretary and Deputy Director of Communications, Stand Up AmericaSarah Harris is the Deputy Communications Director and Press Secretary at Stand Up America, helping to highlight Stand Up America’s campaigns for the press and the public. Through her work, she emphasizes the importance and urgency of making sure everyone has access to a democracy that functions for everyone in...
Get To know SarahMyaisha Hayes
Campaign Strategies Director, MediaJusticeMyaisha is the Campaign Strategies Director at MediaJustice. She previously spent two years as the organization’s National Organizer on Criminal Justice & Technology, where she oversaw the launch of the #NoDigitalPrisons and #ProtectBlackDissent campaigns. Myaisha has an organizing background that includes issue areas such as labor, electoral, and mass incarceration.
Get To know MyaishaVenkayla Haynes
Digital Communications Manager, Black Voters MatterVenkayla Haynes is responsible for developing, implementing and managing all online communications for Black Voters Matter.
Get To know VenkaylaJosh Healey
Josh Healey is an award-winning comedic writer, performer, filmmaker, and creative activist.
Get To know JoshJasmine Heiss
Initiative Director, Vera Institute of JusticeJasmine Heiss leads the Vera Institute of Justice’s national work to reduce jail incarceration and eliminate money bail, with a particular focus on smaller cities and rural counties. She previously served as the deputy director of The Coalition for Public Safety, the nation's largest bipartisan effort to reform the U.S....
Get To know JasmineNorris Henderson
Executive Director, VOTENorris Henderson, current E.D. of VOTE, a nonprofit organization designed to educate, organize and mobilize formerly incarcerated persons in Louisiana. He is currently the recipient of the 2015 Martinet Society Earl Amedee Award for advancing the cause of justice. The 2014 Data News Weekly “Trailblazer of the Year” Award...
Get To know NorrisEunisses Hernandez
Executive Director and Co-Founder, La DefensaEunisses Hernandez is a policy advocate and campaign strategist with nearly a decade of experience in working with communities most devastated by criminalization, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration.
Get To know EunissesTeresa Hodge
Co-founder and Director of Strategy and Innovation, Mission: Launch, Inc.A committed champion for people living with arrest and/or conviction records in America, it was a 70-month federal prison sentence that introduced Teresa Hodge first-hand to the criminal justice system. Upon coming home, she co-founded Mission: Launch, Inc. with her daughter, Laurin Hodge. In 2016, Teresa became an Open Society...
Get To know TeresaRobert Saleem Holbrook
Executive Director, Abolitionist Law CenterFormerly incarcerated, Robert Saleem Holbrook writes extensively on prison abuse, social injustice, state violence and juveniles charged and sentenced as adults.
Get To know Robert Saleem