Staff Bios

Christie Donner Director christie@ccjrc.org	Christie Donner is CCJRC's Executive Director and founder. She has fifteen years of experience working in criminal justice reform advocacy, community organizing, policy research, and lobbying. Christie co-authored Parenting from Prison: A Resource Guide for Incarcerated Parents in Colorado. She is also a contributing author to CCJRC's new publication entitled, Getting On After Getting Out, A Re-Entry Guide for Colorado which is due to be released in November 2007. She has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Pamela Clifton Outreach Coordinator pam@ccjrc.org	Pam Clifton is CCJRC's Membership and Outreach Coordinator. She studied psychology and sociology at the University of Colorado and University of Washington. Pam joined the staff at CCJRC because of her desire to see drug laws changed, parole laws reformed, and the warehousing of people in Colorado stopped. She has spent the last four years working as a supervisor for a local fundraising organization that raised money for many non-profit and political organizations around the country. She served seven years in prison in Colorado for a minor drug conviction and recently successfully completed parole.
Carol Peeples Re-entry Coordinator carol@ccjrc.org	Carol Peeples is the Re-entry Coordinator for CCJRC. She recently co-authored Getting On After Getting Out: A Re-entry Guide for Colorado. In 2003, Carol founded Colorado Voting Project, an effort to educate people with a criminal conviction about their voting rights. Carol's professional background is in education, and she cites her experience teaching in prison classrooms as the catalyst for her interest in the criminal justice system. She believes criminal justice reform provides an opportunity for both individuals and the state. Part of this work is addressing the barriers to re-entry for people coming out of prison. She is currently seeking a master's degree in public policy from the University of Colorado's School of Public Affairs.

CCJRC Board of Directors

Catherine Guerrero is the Program manager for the Sexual Assault Prevention Program at the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. Catherine is a long-time community organizer and has served on a number of non-profit boards. Catherine serves as the Board President.

Richard Jackson, PhD is the senior tenured professor in criminology at Metro State University (Denver) with over twenty years of teaching experience. Richard has also served on numerous criminal justice planning commissions in Denver and is very active in the community on a number of issues.

Joe Mauro joined the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition in January of 2005 and was elected Treasurer in February, 2005. He joined CCJRC because of his passion for issues surrounding incarceration, re-entry for parolees, and the sad state of our criminal justice system. He hopes that his participation on the CCJRC Board of Directors will make a positive difference on providing justice to all Coloradans. Joe also joined the CCJRC Freedom Fighters this year, finding it a convenient way to give on a monthly basis. Joe manages his own business, JFM Consulting LLC, consulting with non-profit groups to increase their capacity for fund raising of all types. He also serves on the board of directors of City Park Alliance and Howard Dental Center (treasurer). Joe is a 10 year resident of the Whittier neighborhood in northeast Denver. He is an avid gardener, a neophyte beekeeper, and enjoys the diversity and colorful nature of his northeast Denver neighborhood.

Julia Yoo is an attorney licensed to practice law in Colorado and California with extensive experience in prisoner civil rights litigation. She has successfully settled numerous lawsuits on behalf of women in prison who were sexually assaulted by Colorado Department of Corrections staff. She received her law degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder and lives in San Diego, California.

Mardy Wilson has been a Denver native for the past 53 years. She has one daughter, one son in law, and 2 beautiful grandchildren Her professional work is in the sign and banner industry. Large format banners, marquees, special projects, primarily within the stage/ theater industry, locally and nationally. A long-standing interest in human rights led her to the Colorado ACLU 8 years ago and to CCJRC in 2006. Her years of coordinating and organizing volunteer programs will prove to be an invaluable asset as we implement our volunteer program in 2007.

John Riley joined CCJRC in 2007 after 30 years of Juvenile Correction employment in the states of Ohio and Colorado. He wants to see the State of Colorado reform both the juvenile and adult correctional systems. His interest is that no additional Correctional facilities are built and monies are used on education, prevention and aftercare programs. John has a BSW from Cleveland State University. He is a founding member of the Committee on Minority Youth Equality, former vice-president of the Colorado Chapter of Blacks in Criminal Justice, and was Chair of the Public Safety Committee for the Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation (INC). He is also a member of Park Hill UMC-Gospel Choir and the Spiritual Project Choir.