Staff
Juan Carlos Ibarra
Juan Carlos is staff attorney for the Voter Protection Project at Advancement Project. His work seeks to ensure that everyone has an equal and fair opportunity to participate in our democratic institutions.
Jason Q. Sinocruz
Jason Q. Sinocruz joined Advancement Project as a staff attorney in 2012. As a member of the “Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track” team, he works with students and community leaders to reform policies that over-criminalize youth and push them out of schools and into prisons.
Giovanni Cozzarelli
With 30 years of experience in both non-profit and for-profit settings, Giovanni Cozzarelli joined Advancement Project as the new Chief Financial Officer in October 2011. As CFO, Cozzarelli is responsible for overseeing the financial and accounting functions of the DC and California offices, works with the Board of Directors’ finance committee, supervises business operations, IT, strategic planning, human resources, etc.
Scott Roberts
Scott Roberts is the Campaign Coordinator for Advancement Project’s Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track program. A native of Emporia, VA, Scott studied political science at Morehouse College and the University of Chicago. Before joining Advancement Project in the fall of 2011, he worked as and organizer and strategist on electoral and issue campaigns including the 2008 Obama campaign and efforts for worker’s rights, healthcare, marriage equality, immigrant rights and democratic reform.
Sara Jackson
Sara Jackson joined Advancement Project in 2011 as a Staff Attorney in the “Quality Education” and “Inclusive Development” programs. Her work focuses on ensuring that low-income communities and communities of color have access to quality schools, safe, healthy and thriving neighborhoods, and have power in school and community decision making processes. Prior to joining Advancement Project, Sara was a Civil Rights Fellow and then Staff Attorney at the Equal Justice Society (EJS) in San Francisco, California.
Alana Greer
Alana Greer joined Advancement Project as a staff attorney in 2011. As a member of the “Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track” team, she works with students and community leaders to reform policies that over-criminalize youth and push them out of school.
Amy L. Lambrecht
Amy Lambrecht has been a successful nonprofit executive for over twenty years, effectively developing programs and crafting relationships at a senior level for a variety of national, regional, and local institutions. She has been responsible for setting organizational strategy, creating and developing fundraising strategies, and identifying and pursuing new revenue streams for public policy and democracy organizations.
Richael Faithful
Richael Faithful joined Advancement Project in September 2011 as an Equal Justice Works Fellow, after serving as a law intern in the summer 2010. Hir EJW fellowship is focused on the development of innovative approaches to transform Virginia’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of felonies, within AP’s Voter Protection Program. Faithful is a recent graduate of American University Washington College of Law, where ze received the Peter M. Cicchino Public Service Award and American University Award for Outstanding Scholarship at the Graduate Level.
Laura Harjo
Laura Harjo is a Research Fellow for the Advancement Project’s Washington D.C. office, and provides research and spatial analysis for their Redistricting, Ending Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, and Inclusive Development projects. With a background in critical race theory, policy, planning, and community participatory methods, her professional and personal interests lie in the engagement, empowerment, and emancipation of marginalized rural and urban communities of color.
Leila McDowell
Leila McDowell is an innovative strategic communications professional with a proven track record of success in developing campaigns to impact the national debate, advance new social change narratives, affect policy change and achieve legislative and legal victories.
