People

 

Ashley Fairburn

Organizer

ashfairb@gmail.com

559-908-9607

 

Ashley Fairburn is a feminist, harm reductionist, Pisces, and a nerd.  She believes that every individual has a responsibility to give back to their community, to work together to make Fresno a safe and sane place, rather than relying on formal institutions to do the work for us.  Currently Ashley is thankful to have her life revolve around Harm Reduction projects

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Gloria Quiroz

Advisory Board Member

mspersonality55@live.com

 

 

Debbie Reyes

Central Valley Coordinator

pmpvalle@yahoo.com

559- 367-6020

 

Reyes, grew up in the Central Valley and has been a community activist / organizer for many years. One of seven children, Reyes learned from her parents to value education, hard work, and give back to the community.

"It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life"...Cesar Chavez

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Ernesto Saavedra

Advisory Board Member

ernesto@caljustice.org

 

 

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

CPMP Co-founder and volunteer

rwg@igc.org

 

Ruthie Gilmore is one of the founders of CPMP and was a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance. She remains active in both organizations. Her earlier involvement with the anti-prison movemen includes time with Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (in Los Angeles), the Network Against the "Counter-Terrorism" Act (in New York) and California Prison Focus (in San Francisco). She is past president of the Central California Environmental Justice Network.

She was born in New Haven, Connecticut where her family has deep roots, and she calls herself a "third generation Yalie" - her grandfather was a janitor at Yale; her father was a machinist at Yale (and both were union organizers) and she was a student with degrees in Drama.

Her day job is teaching at the University of Southern California, where she is the chair of the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity and associate professor of Geography. She writes about prisons and scholar-activism. Her first book, Golden Gulag, was called "a model of politically engaged scholarship."

Her favorite food is Breyer's Natural Vanilla ice cream. Her favorite story is The Education of Mingo. In her spare time she is learning Portuguese, watching movies, reading novels and laughing. Current writing projects include a book on what prisons do and another on infrastructure, race and the state.

Ruthie lives in Los Angeles and walks to work.

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