Staff, Board & Student Leadership

Staff

Andrew Campbell, Classroom Technology Coordinator

Andrew Campbell came to FEPPS after graduating with his BA from University of Puget Sound with a double major in Gender Studies and Religious Studies. As a student, he took a class that connects with FEPPS BA students at WCCW. Andrew now supports students and professors in the classroom and study halls, including making the most of the very limited computer tools available for education programs inside the prison.

Contact Andrew at andrewcampbell@fepps.org

Regina Duthely, BA Program Director

Regina Duthely is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. She specializes in Black feminist rhetorics, African American rhetorics, and multimodal composition and rhetoric. Her research examines the ways that marginalized people, particularly Black women, engage in subversive rhetorics of protest and resistance. In her teaching and scholarship she is interested in the ways that language and literacy intersect with systems of power. She has a Ph.D. and BA in English from St. John’s University in New York City, and an MA in English from CUNY-Queens College. She has taught in the FEPPS BA program, and served as a capstone advisor for a student in the first graduating cohort. 

Contact Regina at rduthely@pugetsound.edu

Nadra Fredj, Student Support Coordinator

Nadra Fredj began working for FEPPS in 2023 as part of their practicum for a Masters of Education in Student Development Administration at Seattle University. Now a part-time employee, Nadra’s work with FEPPS covers various components of academic and student affairs. She previously worked as an academic advisor and instructor at the University of Washington, Seattle; where she received a B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in Law, Societies, and Justice. Nadra’s emphasis in their graduate program is on abolitionist teaching and liberatory praxis, which she is expected to complete in Summer 2024. They are passionate about student identity development and agency, as well as examining the interconnection of U.S. formal education with systems of power and oppression.

Alyssa Knight, Executive Director

Alyssa Knight is a co-founder of Freedom Education Project of Puget Sound, and helped create and facilitate gender identity education workshops inside of WCCW to encourage a more informed and positive environment for gender non-conformance inside the prison. She has a degree in gender studies from the University of Washington, and worked on a research project involving the WCCW archive exploring how gender is constructed through prison policies and carceral ideology. In her free time, she works with Yoga Behind Bars teaching workshops inside youth facilities. She is a part of the Critical Inquiry Collective which recently worked on a year long reading and writing project with both formerly incarcerated people and professors to examine the afterlives of long prison sentences. Alyssa also serves on the Incarceration, Gender & Justice Committee of the Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission, and is a co-founder of Beyond Bars & Binaries, an organization that supports non-binary and transgender people inside Washington prisons and during transition back to community.

Contact Alyssa at alyssaknight@fepps.org

Shohei Morita, Academic Program Manager

Shohei came to FEPPS from Tacoma Community College where he previously worked as the Program Manager for Corrections Education at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) and Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women (MCCCW). He has a Masters in Environmental Studies (MES) from The Evergreen State College where he studied the benefits and impacts of environmental education programs in prison. Shohei is excited to be able to continue working towards creating and fostering a meaningful and student-centered academic environment inside the facility. He is also looking forward to working with students to establish and implement various systems and pathways that support all students in their academic endeavors during their time at WCCW and beyond. During his free time Shohei likes to cook, garden, and hang out with his wife, two cats, and three quails. 

Contact Shohei at shoheimorita@fepps.org

KeWee Roselle, Re-Entry & Community Outreach Coordinator

Contact KeWee at records@fepps.org

Liam Nold, Administrative & Communications Coordinator

Contact Liam at liamnold@fepps.org

Board of Directors

Laura Birx, Board President

Laura Birx is the senior director of global climate strategies at the Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI). She has worked for two decades in the public and philanthropic sectors at the intersection of food systems, agriculture, public health, nutrition, and climate change. Prior to ClimateWorks, Laura was the deputy director of strategy, planning, and management on the agricultural development team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led a multi-year effort to establish the foundation’s first climate adaptation strategy. She first came to FEPPS as a guest lecturer at WCCW, sharing the foundation’s work supporting women’s leadership around the globe. She also worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development to help build the Feed the Future Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia. Laura has a BA from Colby College and a master’s degree in public health from the George Washington University.

Jeff Connor, Secretary

Jo Day, Board Treasurer

Amanda Dubois

Amanda DuBois is managing partner of the Dubois Levias law firm specializing in family law. She received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing at Pacific Lutheran University and Law Degree from Seattle University. She served as a member of the Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ) Board of Governors where she co-founded the Women’s Section, and served as chair of the Family Law Section. She has also authored a series of books that teach basic legal rights and responsibilities to ordinary people called the Civil Survival Series. In addition, she is the past President of the Board of the Women’s Funding Alliance, a Seattle-based foundation focused on economic justice and leadership for women and girls.

Robin Jacobson

Robin Jacobson is a professor at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches a range of courses in U.S. politics including courses on race, religion, state politics and the politics of detention. Her research focuses on immigration, including the role of race in immigration politics, the debate over birthright citizenship, the relationship between the labor movement and immigration politics, and state laws about immigration. Robin was one of the founding faculty of FEPPS. In addition to teaching at the prison, she was also a founding member of the board, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the FEPPS BA program, and returned to the board in 2023.

Starr Lake

Starr Lake is a founder of FEPPS, and was student from the beginning of the program until 2021. As a FEPPS alumni, she brings her lived experience and a uniquely valuable perspective to the FEPPS board.  Starr currently work as a full-time dog groomer, for which she trained while working at the Prison Pet Partnership inside WCCW. 

Max Likin

Max Likin brings an international perspective to FEPPS. He has a Ph.D from Rutgers University and has taught at the Harvard Committee on Degrees in History and Literature as a postdoc. He is currently completing a history of human rights in twentieth-century France. He started volunteering for FEPPS to teach global and European history, and continues with student advising. He collects official data and NGO reports from the European Union to promote validated gender-responsive practices at the Department of Corrections in Washington State.

Kelly Olson

Kelly Olson is the Policy Manager for Civil Survival, a nonprofit organization that organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system. After leaving prison in 2007, Kelly used education and volunteering in her community to help rebuild her life. She graduated from The Evergreen State College in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and an emphasis in communications and public policy. She graduated from the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy in 2013 with an Executive Master’s in Public Administration. Prior to Civil Survival, Kelly worked for the Washington Student Achievement Council, where she worked as a state regulator in postsecondary degree authorization. Kelly has been appointed by the Thurston County Commissioners to the Thurston County Law & Justice Council, serves on the advisory council for the Husky Post – Prison Pathways (HP3) at the University of Washington Tacoma, and What’s Next Washington’s Employment Advisory Council. Kelly also is involved with national organizations like Unlock Higher Ed and the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduate Network.

Student Advisory Council

FEPPS’s paid staff team works in co-leadership with a Student Advisory Council made up of current students and graduates who collaborate on teacher training, new student orientation, classroom expectations, curriculum development, and academic enrichment and community-building activities, .

Current Advisory Council Members

Anousheh A.

Tatiana B.

LeAnne B.

Lisa K.

Amanda K.

Asaria M.

Viviana R.

Bonnie T.

Tiana W.