Ambassador Board

 

Wendy Bosalavage

Wendy Bosalavage is passionate about wellness, travel, design, customer loyalty, and bringing people together. With over three decades of experience in spa, wellness, hospitality, and real estate, she has helped integrate wellness lifestyles into residential communities. Wendy is the founder of Being Well Collective, offering consulting services for wellness centers—from concept development to operational launch, with a focus on consumer experience. She actively supports nonprofits and industry organizations and is especially dedicated to justice. Wendy serves on the board of Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO), helping support young people impacted by the criminal legal system.

 

Al Brooks

Al Brooks is originally from Palo Alto, CA where he organized students to eliminate the racial achievement gap. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and NYU Law. He interned with the Promise of Justice Initiative after his first year in law school. He also interned at the Bronx Defenders, the Legal Aid Society of New York, the NAACP LDF, and the Phillips Black Project. Al has also taught legal empowerment courses in New York state prisons and Rikers and organizes with Unlock the Bar and the Black Freedom Project of New York.

 

Rebecca Collins

Rebecca Collins is a recent graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar. She currently works in the Access to Justice Department at the Louisiana State Bar Association. Rebecca first connected with the Promise of Justice Initiative as a legal fellow, supporting strategic criminal litigation and mitigation efforts. Originally from Georgia and now based in New Orleans, she is dedicated to community-centered advocacy in the South.

 

Annie Flanagan

Annie has been working in the New Orleans criminal justice field since 2013. She has worked on capital mitigation, juvenile LWOP, and Padilla advising for non-citizens facing criminal charges. She is currently a Staff Attorney at the Orleans Public Defenders.

 

Haller Jackson

Haller Jackson served five-years' time in Louisiana prisons, much of it at Angola as an inmate counsel substitute. He continues to advocate for people who are incarcerated in Louisiana and elsewhere as an informal advisor to a variety of groups. Prior to prison, Haller clerked for several federal judges, practiced at two law firms, and earned other degrees in math, psychology, the humanities, and public health.

 

Maureen Kelley

“I support PJI because of the important work they do for persons dealing with the criminal justice system and all the needs it creates for defendants, victims and their families. Justice is the ultimate goal, which can only be obtained through application of the law with truth, understanding and mercy for all.”

I am a 1979 graduate of Loyola University Law School and practiced law in Florida before coming to retire in New Orleans in 2017. Looking for more ways to "give back" and be involved, I was placed with Promise Of Justice Initiative through the Ignatian Volunteer Corps. I most recently have been working on Death Penalty repeal in Louisiana.

 

Lelund Marzell

Lelund Marzell, J.D., first moved to New Orleans in 2004 after growing up in Baton Rouge. He is a social justice activist and abolitionist who is dedicated to challenging inequality, inequity, and injustice through an interdisciplinary lens. His approach seeks to uproot systems of oppression, repressive policies, harmful practices, by working at the intersection of organizing, advocacy, and restorative justice. He believes that these elements are urgently and intrinsically linked. As a recently barred lawyer, Lelund is particularly interested in design justice, housing justice, and advocating for individuals targeted by the criminal justice system.

 

Colin Reingold

Colin is a Resource Counsel at the Oregon Public Defense Commission. He was previously PJI's Legal Director.

 

Jordan Shannon

Jordan Shannon is a civil rights attorney at the Law Offices of Dean Malone in Dallas, TX, specializing in jail litigation for in-custody deaths and denial of medical care. She is also a former staff attorney at PJI's Unanimous Jury Project. Jordan holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University and J.D. from Loyola University in New Orleans with a specialization in Social Justice. Jordan spends most of her free time missing her 6th Ward home and beloved community. She supports PJI because she still loves her clients, even though they aren't her clients anymore.

 

Will Snowden

Will is the proud son of Billy Ray and Kay Snowden who were not only Milwaukee Public School teachers but taught will the importance of speaking up and speaking out. Will plays the cello, loves to dance with his wife, is the Director of The Juror Project and a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

 

Zain Tewalthomas

Zain Tewalthomas (she/her/hers), formerly Director of Operations and Development at PJI from 2013-2022, is currently the Director of Development and Communications at OneJustice, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that brings life-changing legal help to those in need. Zain holds Bachelor's degrees in Anthropology and Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Public Administration from the University of New Orleans. Zain grew up internationally in Bolivia, Pakistan, Venezuela, and Ukraine. Her volunteer hours are dedicated to supporting the Ukrainian resistance, fighting for LGBTQIA+ and reproductive justice rights, and working with community initiatives to heal help Louisiana from the pain of mass incarceration. A 12 year resident of New Orleans, she spends as much time as she can engaging in the culture of the city, working on her Mardi Gras costume, and traveling.

 

Danielle Washington

“I support PJI because PJI helped my family regain his freedom after being sentenced to 49 ½ years.”

My name is Danielle N. Washington I was born and raised right here in the city of New Orleans. I have a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice. I believe in fighting to correct the justice system for those it has been unfair too.

 

Ashley White

“I support PJI because it is an organization dedicated to not only litigation and policy support but also direct action in protecting vulnerable communities.“

Ashley is a Louisiana native, born in New Orleans and raised in Baton Rouge. She prides herself on being an eclectic but fierce advocate for the liberation of exploited people worldwide. She is an undergraduate of Howard University in Washington, DC, and a 2025 Ignatian Law Scholar and graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Prior to law school, Ashley was a Strategy & Operations Consultant for Deloitte Consulting in DC, a Senior Analyst at AECOM in Los Angeles, and a Bail Disruptor at The Bail Project in Baton Rouge.

 

Terrance Winn

Terrance Winn is a Shreveport, Louisiana resident who at the age of 16, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He ultimately served 30 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision Montgomery v. Louisiana where he was ultimately granted parole.  Winn was incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola, a former slave plantation, where he was forced to pick cotton. While incarcerated, Winn obtained a GED diploma and culinary degree. Since his release in 2020, Winn founded the non-profit Priorities, Intentions, Positive Exchanges (PIPES), an organization that advocates for criminal justice reform. Winn has testified twice before the United Nations and at the United States Senate in support of Senator Cory Booker’s bill addressing forced labor in prison. 

 

Jeremy Young

Jeremy Young is a journalist with Fault Lines, a documentary program on Al Jazeera English. He has extensive experience filming in jails and prisons across the country. In 2021 he produced “The Jim Crow Convictions” which was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage. He lives in Kensington, Maryland.