Lovisa Stannow, Executive Director
Linda McFarlane, Deputy Executive Director
Kristin Hall, Program Development Director
Darby Hickey, Communications Director
Monica Hunt, Executive Assistant
Christine Kregg, Survivor Outreach Associate
Shannon May, East Coast Senior Policy Advisor
Derek Murray, Program Associate
Melissa Rothstein, Senior Program Director
Max Siegel, Cahill Human Rights Fellow
Kim O'Brien, Administrative Associate
Cynthia Totten, Program Director
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Lovisa Stannow, MA,
is the Executive Director of JDI. Ms. Stannow has spent the past two decades working
in the fields of communications and international human rights. She is the former
Executive Director of the Pacific Institute for Women's Health and the West Coast
Director and Communications Director of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières.
In the early 1990s, she served as a Press Officer for Amnesty International, following
several years as a journalist in Europe and Latin America. Ms. Stannow is multilingual
and has spent significant parts of her career based in war zones and areas of humanitarian
disaster in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
lstannow@justdetention.org
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Linda McFarlane, MSW, LCSW,
is JDI's Deputy Executive Director. She has worked with survivors of sexual violence
in a variety of settings throughout the last two decades. Ms. McFarlane is the former
Director of Counseling Services for the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency in Long Beach,
California. She has served as a counselor and advocate for children and youth in
both foster care and detention. In 1995, Ms. McFarlane was instrumental in implementing
a ground-breaking treatment program for mentally ill incarcerated teen girls in
Detroit, Michigan. She has worked in crisis intervention with a variety of populations
including survivors of domestic violence and child abuse, teens and adults living
with mental illness, and people living in poverty and with addictions.lmcfarlane@justdetention.org
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Kristin Hall
is the Program Development Director for JDI. She has worked with survivors of domestic
and sexual violence for more than 15 years. Ms. Hall is the former Executive Director
and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency in Long
Beach, California. She has developed and facilitated trainings for law enforcement
officers, medical professionals, and community advocates on the dynamics and impact
of domestic and sexual violence. Most recently, Ms. Hall served as Grant Writer
for A Window Between Worlds, an organization providing art workshops to battered
women and children in shelters. khall@justdetention.org
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Darby Hickey
is JDI's Communications Director, based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining JDI
she was Director of Different Avenues, a peer-led organization working to counteract
and prevent HIV, violence, and discrimination. A nationally recognized speaker and
trainer on transgender, HIV, and sex worker issues, Ms. Hickey also has extensive
experience as a reporter and writer. She serves on the Board of Transgender Health
Empowerment, a local service agency in Washington, DC.
dhickey@justdetention.org
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Monica Hunt
serves as Executive Assistant at JDI. Prior to joining JDI she worked at the communications
department of the UCLA School of Law and in the private sector. Ms. Hunt is a graduate
of UCLA and has extensive experience as a student advocate within the anti-rape,
HIV/AIDS, and reproductive rights movements.
mhunt@justdetention.org
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Christine Kregg
is JDI’s Survivor Outreach Associate. Previously she worked as a senior research
assistant for a study on parolees with mental health disorders in South Central,
Los Angeles. She has engaged in research and activism to promote the human rights
of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in the United States and Ecuador.
Ms. Kregg is a certified Rape Crisis Advocate and a graduate of Kalamazoo College
in Michigan. ckregg@justdetention.org
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Shannon May, MTS
serves as JDI’s East Coast Senior Policy Associate. She previously worked as Resource
Delivery Manager for the Office for Victims of Crime’s (OVC) Training and Technical
Assistance Center (TTAC). Prior to her position at OVC TTAC, Ms. May served as Director
of the National Hopeline Network, a nationwide suicide prevention hotline, and was
a Rape Crisis Advocate for CONTACT Delaware. She holds a Master of Theological Studies
from Garrett Theological Seminary and a Bachelor’s Degree from James Madison University
smay@justdetention.org
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Derek Murray, MPA,
serves as Program Associate at JDI. Prior to joining JDI he worked as Administrative
Coordinator for a small non-profit organization serving the gay and transgender
community in Hollywood and West Hollywood. Mr. Murray has extensive volunteer experience,
including at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, Minority AIDS Project, and
Bienestar. He is a UCLA graduate and received his Master's of Public Administration
from California State University, Northridge.
dmurray@justdetention.org
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Melissa Rothstein, JD, MSW,
serves as JDI's Senior Program Director. She was a senior staff attorney and
director of social work at the Office of the Appellate Defender, a public defender
office in New York City. In addition to representing indigent defendants challenging
their criminal convictions, she created and oversaw a social work program that assisted
clients who were transitioning from prison back to the community and/or who had
special needs while in prison. She also was an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia
University School of Social Work, where she taught legal foundations for social
workers. Ms. Rothstein previously served as a Pro Se Law Clerk in the Second Circuit
of the U.S. Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, Columbia
University School of Social Work, and Hampshire College.
mrothstein@justdetention.org
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Max Siegel serves as JDI's 2010 Cahill Human Rights Fellow. A second-year law student at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Mr. Siegel has devoted much of his career to the prevention and treatment of HIV. He brings experience in advocacy and provision of direct services, and has worked with a variety of constituencies including youth and women living with HIV/AIDS. msiegel@justdetention.org
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Kim O'Brien
is an Administrative Assistant at JDI. Prior to joining JDI he served as a pre-school
teacher at a humanistic education program. Mr. O'Brien worked in the natural foods
industry as a manager and holistic healing consultant for more than 15 years. He
has extensive experience as an activist in labor and social justice movements.kobrien@justdetention.org
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Cynthia Totten, JD,
serves as Program Director for JDI. She previously worked as a litigator at
Sprenger and Lang, PLLC in Washington, D.C. from 2000 until 2006, representing plaintiffs
in civil rights class action cases. In 1999, Ms. Totten was selected as a Women's
Law and Public Policy Fellow, and, in that capacity, worked in the Women's Rights
Division of Human Rights Watch, in Washington, D.C. until 2000, focusing on sexual
violence against women incarcerated in California state prisons. She was also formerly
associated with a law firm in San Diego, California. Ms. Totten is a graduate of
Wellesley College and Harvard Law School. ctotten@justdetention.org
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