Doug has worked in electoral politics for the last twenty-seven years. He has managed twenty-two campaigns including races for city council, mayor, state house, state Senate, U.S. Congress, governor, U.S. Senate and has served as state director for a presidential campaign. He has also worked as a political media consultant and field-GOTV consultant. In addition, […]
Senior Coordinator for Advocacy and Campaigns
HR Manager, People & Culture
Kyla is a human resources and business administration professional. Kyla serves as the Program Manager for State Campaigns at the Alliance for Safety and Justice where she is responsible for designing and implementing an organization-wide management infrastructure. Kyla has more than a decade of experience assisting organizations and companies with streamlining human resource processes and […]
Texas State Director
Terra is a policy analyst with more than a decade of experience in the Texas legislature and criminal justice field. Terra serves as the Texas State Director for the Alliance for Safety and Justice where she is responsible for developing and executing justice reform campaigns that center safety and that elevate the voices of crime […]
Senior Project Manager, Shared Safety Initiative
Aqeela Sherrills is a spirit-centered activist, working to promote healing in marginalized communities and community ownership of public safety and is the National Training Director for Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice. Aqeela grew up in the Jordan Downs Housing Project in Watts, Los Angeles and at 19, he began working with football star Jim […]
CSSJ Organizing Manager
Juan Pablo has been working in Latino communities and with faith leaders for over 20 years. In 1992, he began organizing youth groups for the Archdiocese of Chicago. In 1999, he helped implement the CeaseFire model in the Southside of Chicago, a program to reduce shootings and murders while offering positive alternatives, and mobilized faith […]
Associate Director, State Policy
Andi has been working in movements for social change for over a decade, first as an organizer and for the last several years through policy research and analysis. She has collaborated on decarceration efforts and efforts to build safety outside of the criminal punishment system in Texas and California. Before coming to ASJ, Andi worked […]
Director of Advocacy, Shared Safety
Subhash is an experienced strategist and community organizer with 15 years of experience advancing criminal justice reform in Florida and New York. Subhash serves as the Florida State Director for the Alliance for Safety and Justice, where he is responsible for designing and implementing statewide campaigns to advance policies that improve public safety while elevating […]
Communications Training Director and Strategist
Kim Deterline has over 20 years of experience working in communications and advocacy to pursue racial and economic justice and criminal justice reform. She has worked with the American Bar Association, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Innocence Project and Van Jones, co-host of CNN’s Crossfire. She founded and directed a communications training and […]
Director of Administration
Seung is a veteran of local government and has extensive experience on electoral and advocacy campaigns. In New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s inaugural term, Seung served for three years as the city’s youngest cabinet member. As a cabinet member, he was tapped to operate and turn around the city’s beleaguered juvenile justice system, which was […]
VP, ASJ & National Director, CSSJ
On August 24, 2009, Aswad was 26 years old and just three weeks from going to Europe to play professional basketball. As he left a convenience store, he was approached by two men intent on robbing him and he suffered two near-fatal gunshots to his back, ending his basketball career. Today, Aswad leads ASJ’s organizing […]
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