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.
Isabell Moore is the director and community organizer for AFSC’s North Carolina Immigrant Rights program. Her work is focused on building solidarity across race, class, gender, and immigration status to transform North Carolina into a state that works for the poor and working-class communities that help this great state flourish. She lives in Greensboro, NC with her son.
Terrell Dungee is a community organizer with AFSC North Carolina. His work is focused on building solidarity across race, class, gender, and immigration status to transform North Carolina into a state that works for the poor and working-class communities that help this great state flourish. He lives in Greensboro, NC with his husband and beloved dog.
Katie McSwain is the current Potts Peacebuilding Intern for AFSC's St. Louis program.
Rich Griffin, the newest addition to the AFSC Michigan Team, hails from West Michigan. A Grand Rapids Native, Rich joins AFSC as a Program Associate working on The Good Neighbor Project, Let Me Tell You as well as Ending Life and Long Sentences. Rich comes from prior work as an organizer, coalitions coordinator and other positions in Criminal Justice Reform advocacy work. At the age of 16, Rich was convicted and sentenced as an adult to serve two Life terms as a Juvenile. After serving 23 years of those sentences, Rich has worked in advocacy roles since his release 5 years ago, showing and proving to be an asset in the Advocacy world for those folks who are living in Michigan communities with collateral consequences of Incarceration, as well as Michiganders who are currently serving time. In his spare time Rich is an avid Jazz enthusiast, pencil artist, poet, and writer and remarks: “You must be in love with what you do for it to be fulfilling."
Danny Jones is a mediator, facilitator, speaker, and organizer, and is a Program Coordinator with the American Friends Service Committee Michigan Criminal Justice Program (AFSC-MCJP). As a former Juvenile Lifer, Danny spent his time inside prison doing deep, introspective work, and mentoring others. In 2013, he worked to develop the Personal Enrichment and Parole Readiness program, which is now used in several prisons across Michigan. Upon his re-sentencing and release in March of 2019, Danny co-facilitated two national convenings, one in Michigan on Ending Perpetual Punishment, the other in Washington, D.C., in an “Unlock the Box” campaign to end solitary confinement, and hosts a weekly support call, via Zoom, for families with loved ones currently incarcerated.