Meet the EDC Team
Caroline Sullivan
Caroline Sullivan has been involved in the DBBC since spring 2021 where she focuses on the campaign to restore universal voting rights. Born and raised in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Caroline is currently a third-year law student at NYU School of Law.
Chrissy Cassa
Chrissy is the Legislative Organizer for EDC. She looks forward to her visits to the State House, making connections with legislators and their staff, and working with the whole team in order to reach our goal!
Elly Kalfus
Ellie Kalfus is an oral historian and prison abolitionist. Elly is based in Boston, and has been working letter-by-letter with local incarcerated people for 10 years now to support their freedom struggle. Elly contributes to the coalition through meeting facilitation and recruiting volunteers for jail-based voting. Check out some of Elly's oral history interviews exploring the ongoing fight for the right to vote in Massachusetts: https://oralhistory.columbia.edu/2018-ballots-over-bars.
Hamza Berrios
Hamza Berrios holds a profound passion for education and civic engagement, particularly in the intersection of law and politics. His work focuses on effectively and purposefully advocating for the restoration of voting rights to disenfranchised individuals and the establishment of spaces that foster political emancipation. A returning citizen, Berrios spent over 15 years in prison, during which he embarked on an intellectual journey that culminated in earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University, where he graduated with honors. Currently, he is a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School, where he will pursue a Master of Theological Studies degree within the discipline of Theology, Politics, and Ethics.
Julivic Marquez
I am an artist, activist, and part of nature. I believe that we can live kinder realities where our basic needs, such as good quality education, healthcare, food, housing, and voting, are rights respected and granted to all people worldwide. I dream of a future where we do not rely on punishment to correct harmful behavior and where we become liberated from these oppressive systems.
Nathan Erwin
Nathan Erwin is a land-based organizer and poet raised on the Allegheny Plateau, the northernmost tier of Appalachia. Erwin currently operates with the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe as they fight for land, food, and seed sovereignty. He has lead dozens of organizing campaigns, including five successful "Land Back" rematriation campaigns, pushing the PWA and IDF for waste water irrigation systems across farms in Palestine's West Bank, initiating early SSP adoption in rural Massachusetts, and beating back Forest Service grazing restrictions on Hispaño Land Grants.
Zha Zha Purvis
Zha Zha Purvis is a passionate justice advocate. She has been working to quell environmental and social injustices. Feel free to reach out!