Directors and Advisors
National Address:
Save the Kids from Incarceration
1935 West 4700 South #236
Taylorsville, Utah 84129 USA
National E-mail:
noyouthinprison@gmail.com
Save the Kids Organizational Chart
Administrative Directors
Director of Finance
Alisha Page
Biography: Alisha Page is a community advocate for change and passionate about ending mass incarceration. She’s has volunteered for the last 8 years creating and assisting with reentry programs. Additionally, an active comrade with Save the Kids originally with Wisdom Behind Walls but now wherever she is needed. She actively attends juvenile court advocating for families caught up in the system. Ms. Page facilitates equity training for k-12, and often provides guidance on teacher retraining. Ms. Page is also a small business owner who is passionate about helping people rebuild their credit and work on debt. She has been providing community workshops for financial literacy and small business for the past fifteen years. Ms. Pages holds a degree in Psychology concentration in Financial Management and B.A. in Sociology.
Director of Programs
Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II
Biography: Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute of Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Transformative Justice Journal, and co-editor of five book series including Critical Animal Studies and Theory with Lexington Books and Hip Hop Studies and Activism with Peter Lang Publishing. He has published over fifty book chapters or articles and forty books. Nocella is the National Coordinator of Save the Kids, Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, Director of the Academy for Peace Education, and acquisitions editor of Arissa Media Group. His work has been translated in Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Korean, and Japanese. He has been interviewed by New York Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicles, Durango Herald, Fresno Bee, Fox, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, and Los Angeles Time.
Executive Director
Biography: Selinda Guerrero is a grassroots human rights organizer and mother of six based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She describes her mission simply: “to lift the voices of the voiceless.” With over 30 years of movement-building experience, Selinda is deeply rooted in abolitionist, anti-racist, and intersectional justice work that centers the leadership of directly impacted people. Her organizing home is with Millions for Prisoners New Mexico, part of a national movement to abolish modern-day slavery by supporting incarcerated organizers across the country. She also serves as the National Action Coordinator for Save the Kids, a volunteer-driven organization working to end the school-to-prison pipeline, close juvenile detention centers through culture and Hip Hop. Selinda is a founding organizer with Building Power for Black New Mexico, a coalition advancing Black liberation through community power and political education. In 2020, she co-founded ABQ Mutual Aid, a grassroots network delivering food, resources, and solidarity to thousands of families during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. Selinda is also a seasoned facilitator of political education workshops, offering community-centered training on Know Your Rights, abolition, and grassroots organizing. Her workshops help provide the tools to empower people—especially those most affected by systemic injustice—with the tools and knowledge to resist, organize, and transform their communities. Selinda Guerrero has worked with numerous families impacted by state violence, supporting them in their paths for justice and healing. She was a leading voice in the fight for Justice for Jaquise Lewis—known by many as “Albuquerque’s Trayvon Martin”—and continues to advocate alongside families whose loved ones have been killed or criminalized by police and carceral systems. Her organizing is rooted in deep relationship-building, narrative justice, and long-term commitment to community-led accountability. Her work is grounded in an understanding of how state violence intersects with generational poverty, displacement, and systemic barriers to housing, education, employment, and healthcare. A single mother and now grandmother, Selinda draws strength from her family and the communities she organizes with. She has spent over three decades building grassroots coalitions and community-based alternatives to oppression. When not organizing, you can find her playing dominoes and laughing with her children—always connected to the people she fights alongside.
Director of Operations
Michelle Pace
Biography: A.U.M was founded in 2023 by Michelle pace, it is the sister company of All Uniquely Made, founded in 2018. Michelle is a Maryland native who has resided in Utah since the summer of 2022. Her goal is to bring the artist out of everyone. As well as building community and self-esteem through her work and edification of others. Michelle Pace’s passion for art has gained her favor and access in the art community in Salt Lake and surrounding cities in the state of Utah. Her use of art for outreach is being fostered by many non-profits with Michelle’s blessing and participation. Some recent accolades are: Shades of Expression @ Urban Arts Gallery, which was featured in SLUG MAG, and FOX 13. Her works poetry has been highlighted at the Capital and on major platforms along with her artwork. The future is bright for A.U.M as their audience and reach continue to grow leaps in bounds.
Transformative Justice Program Committee
Ricardo Lopez
Biography: I am a formerly incarcerated individual who through education, meditation and deep introspection has been able to leave behind all toxic ties. I have had experience in mixed martial arts as a competitor. I fully support the arts/physical fitness in every form as a healthy outlet. I have relatability as I can empathize with at risk youth as I myself once walked miles in those shoes.
Chris Powers
Biography: Born in and Raised by NYC, Chris Powers known as Malik by loved ones and Family embraced Non Violent Confict resolution while incarcerated in NY State Malik known the as Conduit Chris became a trainer for trainers in the Alterntives to Violence project during the late 90s amd early 2000s. A talented writer He participated in creative writing and poetry workshops and met The One and Only Jalil Bottom at Auburn. Jalil helped Malik develop into both a better more honest writer and activist and helped him in the transition from mere victim of crime and criminality and spectator towards the liberation struggle against mass incarceration, By inciting upon a commitment to use my talent as a writer to say what must be said about the oppression suppression and subsequent depression that impacts so many of our families in America. since his release in 2007 Malik has worked in each community hes has visited to emphasize Jalil’s Lesson that if peace without justice is merely silence and justice without truth is abuse then Both therefore are far worse as punishments than the crime of mass incarceration… which clearly is the inevitable result of all that cowardice and self-deceit. Chris currently and frequently travels across America searching for responses to society’s urban Affairs crisis and is a proud proponent and activist in the Credible Messengers movement.
Matthew Holman
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Alejandro Argumedo
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Maurece Graham-Bey
Biography: Graham-Bey is multilingual and has an educational background in criminal Justice, English, finance, Christian counseling, and alcohol & drug treatment. He is a son, brother, uncle, nephew and friend to people who deserve better than what they receive from our dysfunctional system. Over the past twenty-five years since his encounter with homelessness and the criminal justice system as a youth he has become a leadership development mentor, non-violent communication and alternative to violence training facilitator, trauma & healing circle lead, Restorative living lead practitioner, Peer recovery coach, Housing navigator and advocate, and organizer for transformative justice. He currently resides in Seattle and sits on the boards of the Alternatives to Violence Project, Friends for a nonviolent world, and Projects for a Civil Society. He is national director of transformative justice and critical reintegration services with Save the Kids from Incarceration.
Lucas Alan Dietsche (Program Director)
Biography: Lucas Alan Dietsche is a graduate with a master’s in criminal justice from University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He is the National Organizer of Letters to Prisoners-Save the Kids. He is also a professor of prison education. He helps send radical propaganda, books, and birthday cards as organizer of Save the Kids Letters to Prisoners Project. He is also currently an Editor of the Poetry Behind the Walls. As the Current Poet Laureate of Taconite Harbor, he has written and published many collections of poetry and novels. He has research on Poetry Criminology, and carceral feminism. He has a Patreon account called The Pilot of Oumuamua. (pronouns: He, Comrade, ) PhD Student of the Institute for Doctoral Studies of Visual Arts Cohort ’23 with a master’s in criminal justice from University of Wisconsin. Dietsche is also an adjunct professor of Prison Education and has published on Poetic Inquiry Criminology, carceral tourism, and transformative justice, as well as many books of poetry and novels published.
Hip Hop Studies Program Committee
Dr. Tasha Iglesias
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Dr. J-Sun Noer
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Tony Quintana
(Program Director)
Biography: Tony Quintana is a loving father, educator, emcee, and activist. He has worked in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention for over 9 years, and has managed health education programs on a wide variety of topics including HIV, diabetes, fitness and nutrition. As an emcee and show promoter, Tony (also known by his stage name I.Q. the Professor) has been very active in the local hip-hop scene in Albuquerque, NM where he co-founded the Conscious Eating and Hip-Hop event series, and is a co-founder of the Dezert Banditz hip-hop crew. He is currently the Plant-Based Eating Program Manager for Animal Protection of New Mexico and Youth Education Director for the Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living.
Lowrider Studies Program Committee
William A. Calvo-Quiros
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Liz Ramos
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Gilbert Lopez (Program Director)
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National Weeks Program Committee
Jamie Alvito (Program Director)
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April Stec
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Bella Ochoa
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Jen Salerno
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Moneka Stevens
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Matthew Hernandez
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Gina C. Aldred
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Biography: Gina C. Alfred is a Student Affairs Coordinator, and President of Staff Association at Salt Lake Community College. She holds a Bachelor of Religion in Biblical and Theological Studies from Liberty University and is certified in Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through the University of Utah. As an avid champion and cheerleader for individuals representing the Global Majority, Gina makes it her priority to ensure that equal and equitable practices are harvested in their favor.
Dr. Lea Lani Kinikini
Utah, USA
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Biography: Dr. Lea Lani Kinikini, received her doctorate from University of Auckland, New Zealand, masters from University of Hawaiʻi, and bachelors from University of Utah. She is a researcher and educational practitioner who has worked internationally in Hawaiʻi, New Zealand, Oceania and now Salt Lake County. Her research has examined the school to prison to deportation pipeline with a focus on case law and Pacific Islander youth gangs. She has conceptualized how legal fictions are extrapolated both in the public sphere and in the legal realm to produce ranked or ‘marked’ populations underlined by racial classes. She currently is the Chief Diversity Officer at Salt Lake Community College working on building solutions to over-incarceration and is committed to creating equity through educational justice innovations.
Dr. Mechthild Nagel
New York, USA
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Biography: Dr. Mechthild Nagel is professor of philosophy & Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice at the State University of New York, College at Cortland, USA. Dr. Nagel is also a visiting professor at Fulda University, Germany and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. She is author of eight books including three on penal abolition. She writes on ethics of play, critical justice studies, global feminist studies, Africana philosophy. Dr. Nagel is founder and editor-in-chief of the online feminist journal Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (wagadu.org). She has taught in area prisons in New York state and established a prison education program at a prison in Fulda, Germany. Lately, Dr. Nagel also supervises a college program (Sophia’s Garden project), teaching philosophy to children and is co-founder and coordinator of a social justice organization United Voices of Cortland.
James Czarniak
New York, USA
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Biography: James is the founder and lead consultant of JCZ Consults. James spent twenty years working in the non-profit and government sectors, most recently as the Deputy Commissioner for the Onondaga County Department of Children and Family Services, specifically focused on Child Welfare Services. As Deputy Commissioner, the County focused heavily on decreasing the use of congregate care and increasing the use of kinship care, becoming a leader in the state. James previously served as the Director of Juvenile Justice for Onondaga County in Central New York for 8 years and led a reform initiative that saw a reduction in detention and out of home placement by almost 50% while increasing local investment in services and alternatives that reduced recidivism and youth re-entry into the system. James has also worked for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Syracuse in both Syracuse, NY and in Washington DC and worked in Congress for the Ways and Means Committee. James graduated from Washington College with a degree in Political Science and is a member of the Annie E. Casey Applied Leadership Network, he has completed certificates in Data Sharing and Multi-System Integration from Georgetown University Public Policy Institute and is trained in Results Based Accountability, Results Based Leadership, and Results Based Facilitation. James is involved in many local committees and sits on several boards that focus on supporting children and families in the community.
Friends and Advisors
Sir Dr. Clyde Rivers
California, USA
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Biography: Sir Dr. Clyde Rivers is the global leader of the world civility movement, teaching people to value the contributions of others. He is the founder and president of iChange Nations, the world’s largest culture-of-honor network in the world. Dr. Rivers is also the first recipient of the Danny K. Davis Congressional Peace Prize Award presented by Congressman Danny K. Davis from Illinois. He is the global board chairman and representative to the United Nations for the Organization of Poverty, Alleviation and Development based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mac Allred
Utah, USA
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Biography: Mac Allred has always wanted to help people. It started when he was small and placed in a city-wide poetry contest. From there he saw that if you cared, then people might just listen to you. Growing up in North Carolina, Mac saw the differences between class and race. When his life hit a detour, Mac found out what the Juvenile Justice System was like. It was then that Mac decided he could never be back in a situation where this was the result of his actions. After spending an ill-prepared year in college, Mac decided to join the US Navy. It was a path that led to great high, and massive lows. Mac traveled the world and was able to see, again, the differences between race and class. Currently settling in Utah, Mac has found his inner activist. Some of that came though his desire to help, and other parts came from the way the world was moving.
Dr. Daniel White Hodge
Illinois, USA
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Biography: Dr. Daniel White Hodge is an author, Hip Hop scholar, cultural critic, & diversity & inclusion, expert. Dr. Hodge has taught at Cal State University Northridge’s Religious Studies department, Cal State Los Angeles’ Pan African Studies department, a s well as Fuller Theological Seminary’s school of intercultural studies. As a speaker, writer, and activist he has spoken on many college campuses including Stanford University, UCLA, USC, and Union Theological Seminary. He teaches around the world on subjects such as Black popular culture, personality, and the self, Hip Hop discourse, and race/ethnicity within religion. Dr. Hodge consults and is available to speak on a variety of subjects including Hip Hop theology, race & ethnicity in the trump era, colonization in evangelicalism, & intercultural communication.
David Michael
Florida, USA
Biography: David Michael is a community activist that feeds the homeless and also gives back to the community by putting on events for the Youth he has ran two successful programs such as teaching the youth how to grow there own food and mentoring kids in the foster care system.
Friends of Save the Kids from Incarceration
Lou Dejesus, Buffalo, New York
Daphne Jackson, McComb, Mississippi
Tracy Jones, Durango, Colorado
Adam de Paor-Evans, United Kingdom
Nicole Emerson, Minnesota
Hasan Stephens, Syracuse, New York
Neil Taylor, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Reies Remero, St. Paul, Minnesota
Mojdeh Sakaki, Salt Lake, Utah
Emily Thompson, Salt Lake, Utah
Andrea Washburn, Salt Lake, Utah
Ahmad Washington, Louisville, Kentucky
Ezra Scott, Jr., Albay, New York
Dick Steele, Houston, Texas
Brock Smith, Salt Lake, Utah
Rita Branch-Davis, Salt Lake, Utah
Lesley Anne, Virginia
Colette Montgomery, Syracuse, New York
Beth Ann, New York
Luke Reynold, Los Angeles, California
Marisol Adriana, California
Xris Macias, Salt Lake, Utah
Chelsie Acosta, Salt Lake, Utah
Wes Wesson, Florida
Trevor Brown, Minnesota
Jeffrey Young, Minnesota
Michelle Livington, Minnesota
Nicole Fernandez,
Cara Kemnitz, Minnesota
Nicque Mabrey, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Melissa Sarah Kamacho Brandenburg, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Step Child, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Cortland, New York
Jason M. Williams, New Jersey
Cynthia Mellin, Salt Lake, Utah
Eddie A. Munoz, Salt Lake, Utah
August Akada, Salt Lake, Utah
Kacie Auffret, Canada
Joanna Lowry, Chicago, Illinois
Jason Del Gandio, New Jersey
Tse Chi Chad Yen, Minnesota
Ricardo Levins Morales, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Priya Parmar, New York, New York
Marika Pfefferkorn, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lizea Harper, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Rhonda “Honey” DuVall, Salt Lake, Utah
DJ Savage, Salt Lake, Utah
Joseph Michael Davis, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brian Trautman, Albany, New York
John Washington II, Buffalo, New York
Oswaldo “Ozzy” Reyes, Houston, Texas
Carolyn Drew, Australia
Maximus Garcia-Olazabal, Salt Lake, Utah
Peter Moosman, Salt Lake, Utah
Dr. Lauralea Edwards, Largo, Maryland
Memorialized
Kym Young
Minnesota, USA
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Biography: Kym E. Young is a Community Human Rights advocate working in the Duluth/Superior Area for social justice and equal rights for PoC and all marginalized groups. Kym received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Superior in 2012. She uses both her artwork and her knowledge and experience to educate and advocate for those whose voices are not heard in mainstream society.