Rickey French is a dynamic student mentor and leadership coach for AFSC's Appalachian Center for Equality (ACE), excelling in fostering community outreach in Logan County.

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 Interim Regional Director for the Northeast Region. She previously served as 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 Burnett is a visionary leader and fierce advocate for healing, justice, and transformation. As a Healing Justice Program Associate with the American Friends Service Committee, she channels her passion into advancing the rights and dignity of currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, uplifting those too often silenced by the justice and carceral system.

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.