Lovisa Stannow, Executive Director
Chris Daley, Deputy Executive Director
Linda McFarlane, Deputy Executive Director
Carolina Aparicio, Communications Assistant
Leelyn Aquino, Program Assistant
Nicole de la Torre, Program Assistant
Sasha Gear, Program Director
Kristin Hall, Program Development Director
Tian Johnson, Program Director
Christine Kregg, Senior Program Officer
Jesse Lerner-Kinglake, Communications Officer
Derek Murray, Senior Program Officer
Gwyn Smith-Ingley, Senior Program Director
Cynthia Totten, Senior Program Director
Lovisa Stannow, MA,
is the Executive Director of JDI. Lovisa 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. Lovisa 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. Linda 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, Linda 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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Chris Daley, ESQ,
is the Deputy Executive Director of JDI. For more than
15 years, Chris has been active in advancing civil rights and public health
issues. He is a founder and the inaugural Director of California's Transgender
Law Center, a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary agency working to end
discrimination and harassment of transgender people and their families. While
at the law center, he helped to create and implement wide ranging, innovative
programs to change laws and institutions for the better. Chris has also
worked on issues of immigrants' rights, ending homelessness, public benefits
advocacy, HIV education and prevention, and abuse of police power.
cdaley@justdetention.org
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Carolina Aparicio is JDI's Communications Assistant. Prior to joining JDI she worked as communications specialist for the Program for Torture Victims. Carolina has also worked on issues related to immigrant and workers' rights and is passionate about using new media to advance important causes. She has a bachelor's degree in political science from Boston University.
caparicio@justdetention.org
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Leelyn Aquino is the Program Assistant in JDI's Los Angeles office. Previously, she worked as an Immigration Paralegal in the Family Reunification & Naturalization Department at Reeves & Associates in Pasadena, CA. She enjoys volunteering and has worked with Habitat for Humanity, the LA County Regional Food Bank, and her local Golden Key chapter. Leelyn studied at the University of California, Berkeley and California State University, Los Angeles and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree.
laquino@justdetention.org
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Nicole de la Torre is the Program Assistant in JDI's
Washington, D.C. office. Before joining JDI, she worked as an
interpreter for Villanova University's School of Law Clinical Programs, where she provided Spanish
language interpretation for legal staff and immigrant clients and conducted intakes for their
Spanish hotline. Nicole also served as an intern in the U.S. House of Representatives for
Pedro Pierluisi, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. She is a graduate of Villanova University.
ndelatorre@justdetention.org
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Sasha Gear is a Program Director for JDI, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to joining JDI, she spent ten years working in the area of sexual violence in South African prisons, as part of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation's Criminal Justice Programme. Her research on the circumstances of sexual violence in men's prisons has played an important role in bringing the issue out of the shadows. She has published widely on the ways in which violence plays out in the world of prisons and on the gendered dimensions of sexual violence against men.
sgear@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. Kristin 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, Kristin 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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Tian Johnson is a Program Director for JDI, based in Johannesburg. A long-time activist on HIV and women's rights issues, Tian has consulted for a wide range of organizations in South Africa that work on gender-based violence, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual and reproductive rights, and education. He is also the founder of the African Alliance for HIV Prevention. In addition to his role at JDI, Tian works with several HIV-prevention advocacy groups.
tjohnson@justdetention.org
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Christine Kregg
is JDI’s Senior Program Officer. 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.
Christine is a certified Rape Crisis Advocate and a graduate of Kalamazoo College
in Michigan.
ckregg@justdetention.org
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Jesse Lerner-Kinglake, MA, is JDI’s Communications Officer. Jesse has extensive experience managing print and online communications for non-governmental organizations in the U.K. and the U.S. Most recently, he served as Communications Manager for the International Rescue Committee UK, where he played a leading role in developing the organization’s online profile. Jesse is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a Master’s Degree in International History from the London School of Economics.
jkinglake@justdetention.org
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Derek Murray, MPA,
serves as Senior Program Officer 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. Derek 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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Gwyn Smith-Ingley is a Senior Program Director with JDI. Gwyn has nearly 25 years of experience in the field of corrections. From 2006 to 2011 she was Executive Director of the American Jail Association, a national nonprofit organization representing more than 70,000 jail professionals. Prior to joining AJA, Gwyn served as the first Executive Director of the National Correctional Industries Association and worked as legislative liaison and adult projects director at the American Correctional Association. The author of numerous articles on the U.S. corrections system, Gwyn has vast expertise in policy analysis, public relations, and medical issues affecting both corrections officials and detainees.
gsmith@justdetention.org
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Cynthia Totten, JD,
serves as Senior 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, Cynthia 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. Cynthia is a graduate of
Wellesley College and Harvard Law School.
ctotten@justdetention.org
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