Liz Brunello is the Program Director for AFSC's Appalachian Center for Equality (ACE). A native to the gulf coast of Florida, Liz has been a West Virginian by choice for over 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 AFSC with youth 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.”

Maggie Fogarty joined the staff of AFSC's New Hampshire Program in July of 2007 when she and her family returned to the United States after living and working for several years in Bolivia. Her work in New Hampshire is dedicated to movement building for economic justice, racial justice, immigrant rights and nonviolence.  As a community organizer, policy advocate, and coalition-builder, she is grounded in Quaker values and a commitment to ensuring that directly-impacted people are supported as leaders in the struggle to create more justice and more peace.