Kelton O’Connor
Kelton is an incarcerated person who writes about the modern day asylum, the friends he has made in these places, and a range of public policy issues. As a matter of principle, LUCI’s Executive Director position is always filled by an incarcerated person, and is an unpaid, volunteer position.
Kelton is a co-founder of Earth Equity, a food policy organizer, and the creator of Earth Equity’s Diabetes Justice Workshop curriculum — a course designed to help incarcerated people explore links between healing foods and healing the planet. He authored the Right 2 Heal (R2H) Strategy, a food justice proposal he was invited to submit as part of an advisory report to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s current prison reform project.
Kelton is pursuing an Associate degree in Liberal Arts at Mount Tamalpais College, where his scholarship relates to the role of meaningful work in anti-recidivism. Kelton has been invited to present his work at the National Conference on Higher Education in Prison (NCHEP) as well as the Sustainable Economies Law Center Conference. His activism focuses on systems that heal both people and ecology. Kelton works to connect incarcerated people and people in reentry to career paths that increase opportunity for self actualization, community formation, and discovery of life mission. Presently this includes the areas of ocean stewardship and public advocacy. Kelton is particularly passionate about programmatic design and the advancement of Food Is Medicine systems.
Roisin Isner
Roisin is a violent crime survivor and advocate from San Francisco, CA. She has over ten years experience in staffing political campaigns, non-profits, and community-serving organizations dedicated to housing justice, environmental sustainability, and transforming the criminal justice system. Her most recent policy advocacy has included legislation to prevent homelessness and better serve victims of serious crimes.
As a teenager, she was the victim of a CO2 bomb attack that resulted in amputation and permanent disability. For three years, she underwent reconstructive surgeries and occupational therapy. She has since become an advocate for restorative justice, reducing recidivism, and ending poverty.
Dr. Anthony Goodwin
Dr. Anthony Goodwin is the CEO of NCG’s Development Co+operative, leading innovative efforts to grow the cooperative grocery sector nationwide. A food justice and health equity advocate, he has more than 20 years of experience across retail grocery, cooperative development and healthcare. His career includes roles with Meijer, Lucky’s Market and ProMedica Health System, where he helped launch nonprofit grocery stores addressing social determinants of health. Anthony holds a B.S. and MBA from the University of Toledo and a Ph.D. in Public Health, with research focused on historic discriminatory policy, the built environment and health equity. Anthony lives in Toledo, OH with his family and enjoys camping and traveling in his free time.
Kelly Groth
Kelly leads LUCI’s policy and coalition advocacy work. She has over a decade of experience of campaign and advocacy organizing, and has previously worked on state and local policies including voting rights and environmental justice. Her activism began in San Francisco, where she honed her skills in community organizing, field strategy, policy research, and strategic planning.
Daniel Anderson
Daniel is a San Francisco-based fundraiser and has spent the better part of the last decade raising millions of dollars for small and large non-profits, advocacy organizations, and political campaigns. His work is focused on building and maintaining fundraising systems that allow organizational leaders to have the largest, most efficient impact possible.
Amelia Tehrani
Amelia is passionate about building community resiliency and worker solidarity. They believe we are strongest when we support each other. Over the last five years, they have spent time supporting families navigating injustices of the carceral system. These experiences have shown Amelia how transformative a worker owned co-op will be for currently and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones.
Wendy Chou
Wendy is committed to creating effective communications to help communities engage with positive climate action. A PhD scientist, Wendy studied how California annual grassland ecosystems would respond to changes in rainfall regime from climate change (at University of California–Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management). She holds a BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard. In 2023 her work was featured in the book CLIMATE WARRIORS and in 2022 she participated in the Leadership Program with the nonprofit Green Foothills. In her spare time, she volunteers with Citizens' Climate Lobby–San Mateo County and the San Mateo Climate Action Team, and dabbles in podcasting.
Immaculate Ferreria
Immaculate is a proud descendant of the late Gregorio Ferreria, an 18-year-old Filipino immigrant, agriculturist, and migrant farmworker who journeyed to the U.S. during the Great Depression before planting roots in WA. His resilience, devotion to the land, and enduring spirit continue to shape the foundation of her work.
For two decades, Immaculate has worked as a grassroots advocate and systems-minded organizer supporting justice-impacted leadership and commUNITY-rooted initiatives. Her experience spans healing-centered facilitation, project coordination, and cross-organizational support, with a focus on helping complex efforts stay aligned, grounded, and people-centered. She brings a steady presence to spaces that require care, accountability, and thoughtful follow-through.
Immaculate’s work (Divine Assignments) is guided by equity, relationship-building, and the belief that those closest to the harm and the work hold essential knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. She is especially skilled at cultivating trust, strengthening collaboration, and supporting leaders in carrying their vision forward with integrity, intention, and dignity.
Daniel Paul Nelson
Daniel Paul is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago in politics, and he’s been deputy director of the Romero Institute, a nonprofit based in Santa Cruz, CA, since 2012. He has worked on Tribal Nations in the Dakotas as an organizer, and he helps oversee all departments at the Romero Institute, an organization dedicated to reducing systemic injustice across several societal sectors. Daniel is inspired to be part of the Right 2 Heal Working Group because he believes strongly in reforming criminal justice in the U.S. to make it more rehabilitative and less punitive. Daniel is a dedicated musician in addition to being an activist/nonprofit executive.
Nicole Wires
Nicole brings over a decade of experience supporting people returning from incarceration and building community-centered systems of care. Before joining Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), she spent years working with individuals and families coming home from San Quentin Prison through Planting Justice, where she helped develop supportive reentry programs and community resilience initiatives.
At SELC, Nicole facilitates efforts to strengthen collective and participatory governance practices through Nonprofit Democracy Network. She brings a deep curiosity about personal and organizational transformation, trauma-informed practice, and community history—grounded in lived experience and grassroots learning.
Outside of her professional work, Nicole is an avid gardener and enjoys salsa dancing, tending her food forest, and exploring movement, meditation, and other practices that support individual and collective well-being.
Devon Gray
Devon is the president of End Poverty in California (EPIC), an advocacy organization focused on advancing a statewide policy agenda focused on equal opportunity for all and changing damaging narratives about poverty. He previously served in the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom as Special Advisor to the Governor’s Chief of Staff, and was also a policy advisor for Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign, where he led the campaign’s gun safety and criminal justice reform strategies.
Ricardo Samir Nuñez
Ricardo is Director of Economic Democracy and a Staff Attorney at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, where he supports the development of worker-owned and democratic economic enterprises through education, legal services, policy advocacy, and ecosystem-building.
Ricardo has extensive experience in cooperative development and organizational support. He co-coordinates programs that provide legal education and practical tools for equitable enterprise development, and he serves on the boards of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the California Center for Cooperative Development.
A graduate of California State University Long Beach, Ricardo also became a licensed attorney through California’s Law Office Study Program, an alternative pathway to legal practice. Before his current role, he worked in housing stability services and international community development, and he has long been committed to strengthening community-based economic models.
In addition to his professional duties, Ricardo enjoys outdoor activities like bodyboarding and cycling, and is deeply committed to family and community life.
Mary Griffin
Mary Griffin, an attorney-advocate, has worked for decades to help make systems work better for people who are too often overlooked. That commitment carried her to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she worked on financial inclusion policy and programs for more than a decade. Mary helped elevate the challenges facing people who are incarcerated or returning home from prison — a population long ignored in financial policy. Her work representing CFPB on the Federal Interagency Reentry Council and the creation of Your Money, Your Goals: Focus on Reentry helped move the national conversation toward financial stability as a cornerstone of successful reentry.
Mary most recently brought her systems-level approach to the Cooperative Development Foundation, serving as Executive Director and Senior Advisor, where she championed cooperatives as tools for democratic decision-making and shared prosperity. Whether it is through consumer, worker or housing cooperatives, Mary’s work centered on the idea that people thrive when they have ownership — literal and figurative — in the systems around them.
She is now honored to advise the ‘Right 2 Heal’ project, continuing her steady, determined effort to widen the circle of economic opportunity and ensure that everyone, regardless of background or circumstance, has the tools to build a stable and self-directed life.