Elizabeth Rossi
Team Director of Strategic Initiatives

Elizabeth is a member of CRC’s founding staff. Following years of investigating and litigating cases challenging the criminalization of poverty she developed CRC’s Strategic Initiatives Department to help expand the ways in which the organization works to dismantle the criminal system. The department’s inaugural project, Ending Family Separation has gained national attention, raising public consciousness […]

Alec Karakatsanis
Board Founder & Executive Director

Alec is the Founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps. As one of the country’s leading experts in constitutional civil rights, Alec has pioneered cases to challenge the size, power, profit, and everyday brutality of the punishment bureaucracy across the United States. He has also worked with directly impacted communities across the U.S. to design innovative new legal, advocacy, and narrative strategies for challenging widespread illegal and harmful practices of prosecutors, police, probation officers, judges, and private companies who work with them to profit from the punishment bureaucracy.

Danielle Dupuy-Watson
Team Senior Advisor

Danielle obtained her Ph.D. from UCLA in Community Health Sciences with a minor in Law and has applied her background in public health and data to addressing systems of mass incarceration. Danielle’s education and experience at the intersection of health and justice lay the foundation for her abolitionist principles guiding the vision and implementation of […]