Who We Are

Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ) is a multi-state organization that aims to replace over-incarceration with more effective public safety solutions rooted in crime prevention, community health, rehabilitation and support for crime victims. Focused on the largest states in the country, we partner with state leaders and advocates to achieve safety and justice reforms through advocacy, organizing, coalition building, research and communications.

Executive Management

Robert Rooks

Chief Executive Officer

Robert is a seasoned organizer and campaigner who over the last two decades worked to achieve landmark wins in justice reform in multiple states. Robert is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance for Safety and Justice where he oversees all of ASJ’s state-based advocacy strategies and campaigns...

Lenore Anderson

President & Founder

Lenore is the founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice, and founder and Executive Director of Californians for Safety and Justice. She is an attorney with extensive experience working to improve our criminal justice system. She is a regular commentator in the media about challenges within our...

Andrea Broxton

Chief Operations Officer

Andrea Broxton is the Chief Operating Officer at the Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ), a project of Tides Center, and is responsible for leading the organization’s state and national operations. In this capacity, she oversees the operational and financial growth plans that enable ASJ to scale up and...

Jay Jordan

Executive Director, CSJ

Jay Jordan has worked at the intersection of social justice and politics throughout his career. During his tenure at LA Voice PICO, Jay was instrumental in recruiting and training churches in the South Los Angeles area. He served as one of the lead organizers for the Campaign to Ban...

Aswad Thomas

Managing Director, Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice

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...

Maria Robalino

Federal Advocacy Director & Senior Project Manager to Robert Rooks

Latiah Hill

Executive Assistant to Robert Rooks

Latiah (Tia) Hill is the Scheduling Administration Assistant to Robert Rooks for Alliance for Safety and Justice. Tia has 15 years of experience in business administration, leadership, customer service and child advocacy both personally and voluntary. Tia was brought to ASJ by the direct impact Prop 47 has played...

Terry Rillera

Executive Assistant to Lenore Anderson

Terry Rillera is the Executive Assistant to Lenore Anderson. Previously she was the executive assistant at the California League of Conservation Voters, the nonpartisan political arm of California’s environmental movement, and before that at the Public Policy Institute of California, which performs independent, objective, nonpartisan public policy research. She’s...

Liz Sanchez

Senior Manager, CSJ

Liz Sanchez supports the President and core program areas with program management. Prior to becoming Program Manager, she provided executive and administrative support for the organization. Liz brings several years of experience in administrative support, Spanish interpreting and translation and legal assistance for immigration attorneys. She gained a passion...

Mandela Jones

Chief Communications Officer

Mandela Jones is the Chief Communications Officer for Alliance for Safety and Justice and Californians for Safety and Justice. He is an astute political strategist and communications professional with extensive experience in the legislative branch of government, electoral and public policy issue advocacy campaigns.

Kristina Villarini

Digital Director

Kristina Villarini is the Digital Director for the Alliance for Safety and Justice and Californians for Safety and Justice. She is a strategic and tactical communications leader focused on data-driven analysis, user experience, audience insight and acquisition, and overall engagement. She aims to bring innovative approaches and solutions to...

Kim Deterline

Communications Director, State Campaigns

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...

Robin Campbell

Senior Staff Writer

Robin Campbell joined the Alliance for Safety and Justice as Senior Staff Writer in 2019. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Communications and Engagement at the Pretrial Justice Institute and, even earlier, as Director of Media Relations for the New York City Department of Correction (DOC). ...

Annie Whalen

Sr. Manager for Storytelling & Content

Annie has broad experience in project management, narrative-shifting and fundraising in the field of criminal justice reform. In her current role, she works across the organization to produce content and collect, share, and bank stories that reshape the conversation on safety and justice.

Nathan Pirtle

Time Done National Director

Nathan Pirtle is a globally recognized speaker, host, entrepreneur, marketing expert, activist and philanthropist who Forbes ranked on their 25 top marketers list in 2017 and 10 fold ranked Nathan the #2 marketing influencer in the world based off of real stats and analytics. Nathan is a millennial-aged entrepreneur...

Will Mathews

Public Affairs Manager

Will Matthews began his career an award-winning investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, where he documented governmental corruption in San Bernardino County and investigated the financial dealings of prominent southern California medical school leaders, leading to an investigation by the state Attorney General. He then served as...

Brittanie Dial

Communications Program Manager

Brittanie has over a decade of experience working on programming, community outreach, and development teams in the non-profit sector, advocating on behalf of homeowners who fell victim to predatory lending practices, and raising consciousness on social justice issues through community organizing and research.

Kenny Foster

Digital Manager

Kenny Foster began his career interning at Youth Radio in downtown Oakland where he delved into the worlds of journalism and digital media. He also hosted a radio show and served as a music production peer teacher. His passion for social justice is what led him to become a...

Ida Sefer

Web & Data Manager

Ida began her career streamlining the flow and handling of data for a software firm and various health management organizations. Immediately prior to joining Alliance for Safety and Justice, Ida was the web and database manager at GLSEN, an organization dedicated to protecting LGBTQ students. At the Alliance for...

Tinisch Hollins

California State Director, Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice & Associate Director, Californians for Safety and Justice

Tinisch Hollins is a crime survivor and a native of San Francisco, CA. She has been deeply engaged in the Bay Area social justice movement as community organizer, policy advocate and systems navigator for nearly two decades. She has worked passionately to bring the voices of survivors to the...

Anna Cho

Survivors Speak Campaign Director

Anna began her career as a social worker and youth justice advocate. Her personal experience as a child sexual abuse survivor and family separation is what called her to work in policy. Anna joined CSJ after serving as the Policy Director of The Anti-Recidivism Coalition, where she helped pass...

Jonathon Lewis

National Training Director

Jonathon is a skilled community organizer who, prior to joining ASJ, worked as a Manager of Organizing Strategy for Leadership for Educational Equity – Louisiana, where he coached and provided strategies for teachers and former teachers to change education policies locally and statewide. He was also a Project Manager...

Juan Pablo Chavez

Florida Regional 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...

Quincy Bates

CSSJ Events Manager

Tricia Forbes

Regional Training Manager, Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice

Tricia provides leadership and advocacy training to crime survivors and Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice partners across Texas. She has 25 years of experience working in the movement for social, economic, and racial justice. Her career began at a feminist collective family violence program in Asheville, NC doing...

David Guizar

Regional Training Manager, Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice

When David was 10 years old in 1983, his older brother – and idol – was murdered. No one told him what happened, and David struggled in his teen years with fear and anger about the loss. After decades of drug and alcohol addiction, David became clean and sober....

Eris Eady

Survivors Speak Campaign Organizer

Eris Eady (she/her) is a writer, poet, advocate and artist from Cleveland, Ohio. Believing in the necessary conjunction between arts & activism, Eris intersects storytelling & social justice with the pursuit of radical self love. Her writing has been featured in The Guardian, For Harriet, The Root & BBC Worldwide....

Karalyn Lacey

CSSJ Program Manager

Before coming to the Alliance for Safety and Justice, Karalyn worked at GiveWell and Open Philanthropy Project, managing their accounting and providing research support to senior staff on projects related to the criminal justice system and giving opportunities in the social sciences. She started her career in economic consulting...

Tashante McCoy

CSSJ Chapter and Membership Development Manager

Anthony DiMartino

California Government Affairs Director

Anthony pursued his Master’s in Social Welfare to work on social justice issues and reform the criminal justice system. As director of government affairs, Anthony is responsible for strategizing and advocating for Safe and Just’s legislative and budget agenda in the California Capitol. Anthony began his career as an...

Shaena Fazal

Director of Legislative Advocacy

Shaena Fazal is the Director of Legislative Advocacy for the Alliance for Safety and Justice. She has over 20 years of experience advocating for youth and criminal justice reform as a public defender, policy advocate and lobbyist. She has worked on campaigns related to the abolition of the death...

Subhash Kateel

Florida State Director

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...

Ed Little

Policy Advocate

Edward Little, is a leading policy professional in criminal justice reform with an extensive background in the areas of social justice, workforce development, reentry, and policing. Ed served on the Bail Bond Review Steering Committee with other community stakeholders, and legal professionals from around the community engaged in a...

Harvey Santana

Michigan Government Affairs Manager

Terra Tucker

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...