Manige Blackburn-Giles

Community Organizer
manige@ccjrc.org

Maníge Blackburn-Giles (Muh-knee-zha) is a seasoned community organizer and advocate with over two decades of experience mobilizing communities, fostering coalitions, and leading outreach initiatives. She has worked extensively in education, community building, maternal and child health, and public health advocacy, centering lived experience in her approach. As the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Swing By Street Supply, she provided barrier-free resources to marginalized communities, and as the Director of National Outreach at Nurse-Family Partnership, she led engagement efforts across 43 states. Her expertise includes power mapping, strategic planning, and trauma-informed leadership, with a focus on amplifying the voices of those impacted by systemic inequities.

A graduate of Metropolitan State University of Denver with a degree in Genders, Sexualities, and Human Services, Maníge is also a certified birth and legal doula, a Lean-trained leader, and a Lifespan Sexuality Educator. She holds multiple certifications in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and advanced leadership. A first-generation Coloradan and proud mother, she is deeply committed to building community power and driving meaningful change through relational organizing.

Pam Clifton

Manager of Constituent Services
pam@ccjrc.org

Pam Clifton is CCJRC’s Communication Coordinator. She studied psychology and sociology at the University of Colorado and University of Washington. She has also spent two years studying film making at the Open Media Foundation. In 2002, she went to work as a fundraiser and supervisor for a local fundraising organization that raised money for non-profit and political organizations around the country. Pam joined the staff of CCJRC in 2006 to see collateral consequences reduced, drug laws changed, parole laws reformed and the warehousing of people in Colorado stopped. She believes that we must do whatever it takes to reintegrate people successfully back into communities which includes making sure that they understand their rights; especially their right to vote. The last few years she has been working on a campaign to reduce the number of women that are going to or going back to prison.  Pam served seven years in prison in Colorado for a minor drug conviction and successfully completed parole in 2005.  She has also become a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist and is a certified AccuDetox provider.

Christie Donner

Executive Director
christie@ccjrc.org

Christie Donner is CCJRC’s Executive Director and founder. Since 1995, she has been working in criminal justice policy and budget advocacy, community organizing, policy research, and lobbying.  Areas of focus include: decarceration, community-led safety strategies/services, parole/reentry, drug policy, and conditions of confinement in CO prisons.

Kyle Giddings

Civic Engagement Coordinator (V.W.C.)
Kyle@ccjrc.org

Kyle Giddings is a Colorado native with deep roots in communities up and down the front range. The great-grandson of a coal miner from Trinidad, and the grandson of a migrant farmer from the San Luis Valley, Kyle draws upon the legacy of his ancestors to inspire him to work towards justice for the communities he’s a part of today. Working as the Civil Engagement Coordinator, Kyle hopes to work toward developing programs and implementing policies that help justice-involved people have a voice in their communities. Kyle believes that one of the cornerstones to reentry is participating in civic engagement, and believes that is why the Voting with Conviction program at CCJRC is so important.  Kyle and his wife Erica reside in Olde Town Arvada, where they enjoy spending time in nature, playing Mario Party, traveling, and going on adventures with friends.