Board of Directors

-in alphabetical order-

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Devon Cohen

Devon Cohen has been a member of Let’s Get Free since its beginning in 2014. After seeing three innocent death row exonorees speak as a teenager in 2002, they have been engaged in prison justice issues, and the ways in which the criminal legal system in the US fails to provide justice, safety, or healing from harm. Over the years they have organized with a number of environmental and racial justice struggles, and for the last few years have been focusing on ending death by incarceration and other lifer’s issues. They are working toward the time when the lessons many lifers hold can be freed in their communities, and healing and transformation replace punishment. Devon also spends time being a nanny, artist, housekeeper, and dog buddy.

 

Ronna Davis Moore

Ronna R. Davis is  the CEO & Founder of Za’kiyah House, she is a 47 year old mother of three, whose desire is to reach back and pull others through the same tunnels that she has once traveled herself.  Ronna is a Pittsburgh native, has always excelled at school and graduated a year before her original graduation from the Pittsburgh Public school system. She then began her lifelong dream of working in social work at Allegheny County Community College and graduated in 2004 with her Associate Degree in Social Work and a Certificate in Drug and Alcohol Counseling.  She went on to secure her Bachelor in Social Work from Chatham College in 2007 and in 2012 she finished her Master Degree in Leadership from Geneva College. Ronna, is a returning citizen who has prided herself in given back to the prison population that she was once apart of.

Ms. Davis has worked in the Social Service Field for over 16 years, serving the East End population as a Social Worker at The Salvation Army. She then moved into the area of her passion at Tadiso Inc. as an Addiction Specialist serving with people with a various types of addiction. It was then that she realized that homelessness, incarceration and drug addiction are all interrelated and to truly meet the needs of people with addiction issues she needed to be capable of assisting with all their needs. At that moment, unknowingly, Za’Kiyah House’s mission was embedded in her mind creating the desire to reduce recidivism, addiction and homelessness via one service location.

Ronna has knowledge of many institutions that are in place to help people, however, she believes that each lacked some of the additional support to bridge the gap between social services and the person in need.  Her determination to create a place where people who are wounded can receive guidance that is non-judgemental and supportive.

In 2001, she decided that she was dedicating her life to helping people who were incarcerated and desire to become free from anything that did not promote prosperity in their lives. Za’kiyah House was born, to assist people who suffer from any crisis that affects the growth and prosperity of mankind.

Jane Hein

Jane Hein joined the fight to abolish DBI when her niece was sentenced to die in prison. She visits other lifers through Operation Break Bread, visits with legislators to advocate for reform laws, attends rallies in Harrisburg, and canvases for candidates that support reforms. She is a member of Let’s Get Free and CADBI-West.

 

Donna Hill

Donna Hill has a daughter serving a death by incarceration sentence in Pennsylvania. She has been a tireless advocate for over 30 years not only trying to change laws to provide for a minimum sentence for lifers but also for prisoners’ rights and humane treatment of prisoners. She was the president of Fight For Lifers West for 15 years and is now an active member of LGF and CADBI West.

Avis Lee

Avis Lee is a returning citizen who has been a freedom fighter for over four decades. She is a strong advocate for the release of women and men serving LWOP and their successful reentry as returning citizens. She has chronicled her own journey into a broad-spectrum resource guide for others. She believes in second chances and mercy.

Alan Lewandowski

Alan Lewandowski aka Anita Fix writes, performs and records songs, poetry, theater and fiction with a focus on using the arts as activism towards revolutionary social change.  They have been a member of Let’s Get Free since 2017, and is active in the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration-West.  Alan was brought further into the movement upon meeting Marsha Scaggs, who is unjustly serving DBI at SCI Cambridge Springs; and works on behalf of Marsha and the many other awesome women from the awesome community of Lifers and long timers at CBS and SCI Muncy with a fervent desire to see them all get the freedom they deserve.

 

Lauren Stuparitz – Lauren’s bio coming soon.