DJP Team
Executive Director
Alexander, among other things is a father, a Denver community member, a human rights advocate, and a survivor of police violence. Alexander is one of the co-founders of Denver Justice Project and has been a tireless advocate against violent law enforcement practices locally and nationwide since 2013, fearlessly telling his own story of being beaten by Denver Police. He has worked to create alternatives to policing with community based approaches to emergency response like Denvers STAR program.
Policy Director
Cat Moring serves as the Policy Director for the Denver Justice Project. Prior to her role with the Organization, Cat worked in municipal law, conducted research at the University of Vermont, and actively participated in political campaigns spanning from local to Presidential levels. Although Cat hails from Dallas, Texas, she relocated to Vermont for her college education, where she focused her studies on Urban Geography and Political Science. Her passion for fair and equitable urban development, housing solutions, and criminal justice reform led her to Denver, where she is dedicated to addressing these critical issues within and around the city.
Director of Operations
Casey has been with the Denver Justice Project since 2021, initially serving on the Board of Directors for two years before transitioning to a part-time role as Director of Communications. She now brings her expertise to DJP as the full-time Director of Operations. With a decade of experience living and working in Costa Rica, Casey earned her Master’s degree in Communications, Peace, and Conflict from the United Nations University for Peace in San Jose. A University of Colorado Denver alum, she focused her studies on using communications as a tool for social change. Casey is deeply committed to national and international human rights and environmental rights movements.
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Board President
Cory has a professional career in Behavioral Healthcare and Human Services that transcends over 26 years. His advocacy and clinical work includes serving as a direct practitioner, organizational leader, and policy change maker on a local, state and national platform. Cory has had the honor of supporting youth and adults to achieve healthy living while navigating loving communities that nurture their physical and spiritual state of being. He acknowledges that all facets of a person’s being is entitled to be honor through authentic connections and social justice.
Cory is well seasoned with cultivating Boards of Directors and serving in an executive leadership role on Boards. As an organizational consultant, he has worked with collectives, nonprofits, and government entities to assess their operating structure and partner to align them with social justice principles that elevates their constituents.
Board Treasurer
Wivine’s professional background spans health justice, public health research, health program management, community engagement, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) initiatives. Her primary passions and experiences, however, focus on addressing racial health justice and disparities affecting Black communities and people of color. To this end, she has collaborated with impactful organizations such as the Colorado Sickle Cell Treatment and Research Center, the Center for African American Health, the Colorado Public Health Association (CPHA), Public Health for Public Safety (PHPS), and other community empowerment groups in both Denver and Chicago. Her contributions extend to publications centering health equity in medical education, and she dedicates much of her work to building meaningful relationships to transform public health and public safety systems, fostering resilience and well-being. To date, her proudest achievement is leveraging her gained knowledge and privileges around sickle cell treatment and research to help get her sister cured from the invasive disease in 2020.
During the day, Wivine services local communities as the Population Health Program Manager at Colorado Access (Medicaid). She is also pursuing a PhD in psychology in hopes to one day offer accessible, culturally responsive therapy for populations systematically deprived of behavioral health resources. In her personal time, Wivine enjoys painting (acrylic and watercolor), nurturing her collection of houseplants, going on night hikes and long walks, reading, and spending quality time with her chosen family. As a committed board member and treasurer for the Denver Justice Project, Wivine continues to advance social justice and equity with dedication and impact.
Board Secretary
Hope is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Affairs at CU Denver, Hope’s research focuses on criminal justice policy. Her research and teaching highlight ways in which criminal justice policy upholds the status quo and frames certain communities as deserving and discourages participation from others (and ways to challenge those narratives). Combining her professional background in Learning and Development, volunteer experience in prisons and as a victim advocate, and an M.S. in Criminology, Hope is passionate about advocating for sustainable and community-centered solutions in the criminal justice system.
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Anna is a passionate advocate for social and environmental justice, with over a decade of experience in building community and amplifying marginalized voices. As a neighbor, parent, and nonprofit professional, she is dedicated to advancing justice and equity through building relationships and challenging systems. Both in her professional work and personal life, Anna is committed to causes that address injustice through a structural and community-centered lens. She currently works for a nonprofit that advances climate solutions through zero waste and circularity, and she enjoys reading, gardening, baking and preserving food to share with her family, friends and neighbors.
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I’m born and raised in Denver, Colorado growing up in ParkHill. I earned a bachelor’s degree in Health and Human Performance at Fort Hays State University. My profession is in financial services as a life insurance agent. I am very active in the community and also working for the city. My life was impacted tremendously by the legal system which drives me to fight for justice against different inequities and unjust treatment faced by our community!
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Kemiya Nutter (she/her) is a passionate advocate for transformative justice and a dedicated fighter against state-sanctioned violence, unjust policing practices, and the prison-industrial complex. As a law student pursuing a career in civil rights law, Kemiya is committed to centering the voices and leadership of lived-experienced experts in her pursuit of justice. She bridges theory and praxis, facilitating transformative dialogue to dismantle conventional notions of crime and punishment, envisioning alternatives to the carceral state.
Kemiya is a Student Attorney in the DU Civil Rights Clinic. Additionally, she serves as the Deputy Director of the Decriminalizing Neighborhoods Network, a national coalition that seeks to challenge prevailing narratives around gang affiliation and shift the focus to the root causes of poverty, racism, and state-sanctioned violence. She has hands-on experience in bail support, court watch programs, and grassroots organizing, as well as expertise in grant procurement and curriculum development for justice-involved populations.
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Allyana (she/her/ella) is driven to create a future that protects, and values marginalized communities by dismantling systemic sources of harm. As a law student, she is passionate about implementing restorative justice practices and disrupting all avenues of the punitive criminal justice system by holding government actors responsible for their actions. Allyana uses her own lived experience and her background in social work to nurture compassion and understanding in the field of civil rights.
Allyana is a Restorative Justice Facilitator with the Conflict Center and her work ensures that individuals are never defined by the criminal charges they are accused of. She encourages individuals to take back their narrative and, as a community, repair harm.
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Tavara Gerfen is a lifelong Colorado resident with a Bachelors degree in Premed from Metro State University and Masters in Nonprofit Business from Regis University. Serving her community by working in public health for over 25 years and volunteering serving at risk populations for entities like Denver Animal Shelter special cases, people experience houselessness, children within the foster system and those who are incarcerated. Driving Tavara’s passion was being child and teen herself, who had to constantly navigate her way through government systems such as foster care and juvenile jails, seeing and dealing with inequities and inequalities in the environment around her. After being sexually assaulted by a cop at 18, and working through other childhood traumas, it has allowed her to focus on attaining her DrPH in Public Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, with a focus on Epidemiology and the Impacts of Untreated Childhood Traumas and how that Impacts Adult Behavior and Mental Health. Constantly creating change within the community whether it be whistle-blowing on wrong doing or boots on the ground PIT counts annually, Tavara believes it is all about being the change you want to see in the world.
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Armando believes strongly in the intersectional nature of justice work and that belief has informed both his personal and professional development. A graduate of Colorado School of Mines with publication credits in the Royal Society of Chemistry, Armando has worked in the climate justice space encompassing both the technical and social aspects of that work. This culminated in his appointment by the Mayor of Denver as Co-Chair of the Energy Committee and position as a voting member of the Sustainability Advisory Council for the City and County of Denver. After a productive two year term Armando resigned from the Chair position, feeling called to focus on other aspects of social justice and direct action. DJP has been a source for inspiration for Armando since first hearing of them during the George Floyd street movements of 2020 and volunteering with them shortly after. He is honored and humbled to serve in the provision of racial and restorative justice through this organization.
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Elizabeth White, MSW, (she/her/hers) is a public health professional based in Denver with over a decade of experience utilizing an equity lens and approach that uplifts the strengths, wisdom, and self-determination of communities around the world. Her work focuses on health equity, evaluation, community health, youth engagement, and climate/environmental health work, and she previously co-led a nonprofit organization that focused on decolonizing global health partnerships. Elizabeth’s previous work in Detroit in her home state of Michigan focused on urban agriculture, food justice, and fair land use organizing, and influenced her guiding principles of collective impact, civil rights, anti-racism, intersectional feminism, and environmental justice. Elizabeth holds an MSW in community organizing from the University of Michigan, where she also studied global health epidemiology. She advocates for the abolition of the prison industrial complex, including all police.
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