Elysee Nibitanga was the program manager for AFSC Burundi. She contributed to the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting of program projects, focusing on good management of the organization’s resources and evidence-based results.

A native to the gulf coast of Florida, Liz has been a West Virginian by choice for a decade. Working first with the AmeriCorps VISTA program in the areas of youth leadership development and community health work, for the past 8 years, Liz has spent her time working for the AFSC as the youth program director in the southern coalfields. Her work is guided by the belief in the power of youth organizing to make long-term change for the common good. In her spare time, she is an avid reader/listener, movie-watcher, printmaker, and dog-adventurer. Liz graduated from the University of Richmond in 2013 with a BA in French Honors. 

Rickey French is AFSC's Program Coordinator for the Appalachian Center for Equality in West Virginia.

Julián Andaya is the Emerging Leaders for Liberation Program Director.

Sarah Amazeen is AFSC's U.S. Program Director.

Mariana Martinez is the Program Director for Emerging Leaders for Liberation. Mariana has a Masters in Education from the University of Miami and a background in community organizing and policy campaigns. Previously, Mariana worked as the Florida campaigns and policy coordinator for our AFSC Florida Program.

Akira Rose is the NY program’s Youth Empowerment and Engagement Coordinator working closely with youth with a goal of empowering them to think differently about the carceral system though our Liberation Summer Camp and Liberation Academy. She helps prepare tomorrow’s activists with information and tools needed to contribute to the changes they want to see in their communities.

Chia-Chia Wang is the Co-Director for AFSC’s Immigrant Rights Program overseeing organizing and advocacy projects. She supports staff in various campaigns including TPS permanent residency, #FreeThemAll, DefundHate, anti-detention and enforcement policies at local and federal level, and immigrants’ access to benefits and services.

Nicole Polley Miller is the Legal Services Director of the American Friends Service Committee’s Immigrant Rights Program (AFSC) in Newark, New Jersey. Nicole has provided direct legal representation to immigrants in removal proceedings and before USCIS and is a frequent speaker on immigration-related topics.

Ophelia began her work with AFSC New Hampshire on January 4, 2022. A New Hampshire resident for more than 20 years, Ophelia brings her life experiences and passion to this new role: “I want to build connections among people who have experienced the criminal legal system, and to nurture hope and faith that together we can build the world that we want.”