Our Mission

Aditi joined FPJ in 2022 as a mitigation specialist. Their practice shifts power to those marginalized by the system by centering those most directly impacted in decision-making. Healing-centered and trauma-informed, Aditi takes a holistic approach to their work to shift systems so that they care for all. Aditi has a masters in Design Innovation and Citizenship from the Glasgow School of Art and a Bachelors in Science from Olin College.

Anthony joined FPJ in 2012 as the Director of Programs. He has since taken on a dual role of overseeing FPJ's operations and conducting direct service investigations as a Mitigation Specialist. Anthony has a BA in Urban Studies and Planning from San Francisco State University and much of his work has focused on documenting how culture, history, politics and ecology impact outcomes of our clients. Prior to joining FPJ, Anthony was working with youth and families in Visitacion Valley in southeast San Francisco.

Diane Lozano joined Full Picture Justice as the Executive Director in 2024. A Wyoming native, Diane began her journey in public defense as the Student Director of the Defender Aid Program while attending the University of Wyoming, College of Law. Since graduating in 1994, she has been a stalwart advocate for the indigent accused, representing them at every level of the legal process, including capital cases. Her commitment to justice and fairness has been evident throughout her career, with a notable track record of achieving sentences less than death in capital cases. In 2007, Diane became the State Public Defender of Wyoming, and was instrumental in ensuring adequate funding and manageable caseloads for her staff. Her dedication to the cause of justice was exemplified in her successful challenge of a contempt order when she refused to take cases in counties exceeding public defender caseload maximums, as documented in the landmark case Lozano vs. The Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial District (460 P.3d 721 [Wyo. 2020]). Beyond her state-level contributions, Lozano has made significant impacts on a national scale. She has been actively involved in national death penalty training, serving as a faculty member at prestigious institutions such as the Bryan R. Shechmeister Death Penalty College at Santa Clara University College of Law. In 2019, Diane was invited to participate in a national indigent defense roundtable in Washington, DC, Igniting Change, Expanding Movement: A Roundtable and Idea Lab on Indigent Defense and Criminal Justice Reform. Diane has also presented at the California Death Penalty Seminar in 2020, 2023 and 2024 and presented and assisted with facilitation of the CCLI BYOC Death Penalty training hosted by NACDL.

Dylan Majsiak graduated from Brown University in 2020 with a dual degree in English Nonfiction Writing as well as Latin American and the Caribbean Studies. Prior to joining FPJ in September 2022, he spent a year working and studying in Mérida, México, through the Fulbright Program. He looks forward to working with FPJ's Spanish-speaking clients.

Experienced leader in education and nonprofits, dedicated to sustaining connected communities that address systemic inequities and promote culturally responsive and innovative practices. She is skilled in strategic thinking, trust building, and change management. She has a BA in Ethnic studies and MA in education, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Emma joined FPJ as a Mitigation Specialist in 2024. She received her BA in sociology and social welfare from UC Berkeley. Throughout her collegiate and professional careers Emma has advocated for incarcerated individuals and survivors of sexual trauma and human trafficking.

Harriet joined FPJ in December 2018, as a mitigation specialist with the aim of using her background in written and filmic storytelling to craft narratives that not only challenge the death penalty but also affirm the value of human life.

Isaac joined FPJ as a mitigation specialist in 2024. Before doing so, he graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A in English Language and Literature. He is interested in the intersection between narrative and social activism. He hopes to apply his background in storytelling towards restorative justice.

Kyle Earley joined FPJ in 2016 as a Mitigation Specialist. He conducts investigative research, record collection, and develops social histories on behalf of men and women facing the death penalty. Kyle has a BA in Communications with a minor in History. Prior to joining FPJ, Kyle worked as a Trial Assistant at the Law Offices of Jack Earley.

Linda is a sociologist, holding a B.A. from Rosario University, an M.A. in Education from Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, and an M.A. in Migration Studies from the University of San Francisco. Throughout her career, she has focused on promoting peaceful conflict resolution and civic engagement with youth, as well as supporting immigrants, asylum seekers, and unaccompanied migrant children. She is eager to apply her expertise in research, pedagogy, and social innovation at FPJ, approaching clients with humility and empathy.

Louis joined FPJ as a Mitigation Specialist in 2024. Prior to joining FPJ, Louis worked for several international human rights, humanitarian, and prison reform organizations, including the Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY), Penal Reform International, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the United Nations. He brings direct experience working with those incarcerated, advocating for the improvement of treatment and conditions within correctional environments, and supporting the families and communities who are directly affected by criminal justice systems. Louis holds an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Edinburgh and BSc (Hons) in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Portsmouth.

Maricruz joined FPJ as a Mitigation Specialist in 2022. Prior to joining full time she was an intern for FPJ beginning in the summer of 2022. She graduated with her B.A. in English from the University of California, Merced and received her Masters of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Irvine. Maricruz is deeply committed to working hand in hand with people facing the death penalty, and their loved ones, to ensure their voices are heard, valued, and included in all aspects of her work.

Michelle joined FPJ as a Mitigation & Social Work Specialist in 2024. She received her MSW from Boston University in 2015, and began her social work career doing non-capital mitigation in Boston. Prior to joining FPJ, Michelle served as a licensed mental health clinician assisting formally unhoused individuals in Los Angeles. She focuses on providing trauma-informed and culturally sensitive care to all clients.

Oona joined FPJ in June 2023 as a mitigation investigator. Before doing so, Oona graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A in American Studies and Sociology, where they particularly focused on the power of communal systems of care to act as sites of resistance. This background informs Oona’s work building holistic social chronologies to challenge the single narrative of justice imposed by the carceral system.

Rodrigo is a former client of FPJ and currently assists in FPJ's operations and programming. He has run the CARES hotline, where he helps incarcerated individuals file to receive their stimulus checks during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is very happy and proud to be able to help those who do not have reliable access to resources. FPJ has helped restore Rodrigo’s confidence in himself and has proven to him there are still forces of good in the world.

Sandra joined Full Picture Justice in 2021 and is one of the Healing Circle Leaders. She is a management professional with over 20 years of experience in program planning, personnel management, event planning, operations, and logistics. Sandra is a problem-solving leader who thrives in fast-paced team environments, utilizing technology, innovation, and data. She is an experienced crazy cat lady and lover of good energy and positive vibes.

Scarlet has been mitigating on behalf of men and women facing the death penalty for over 20 years. She co-founded FPJ in 2007 to continue to investigate death penalty cases at the trial and post-conviction level and train others, while creating and developing initiatives designed to combat risk factors in children we now recognize left our condemned most at risk for incarceration.

Shanna Wills works with FPJ's community and client outreach programs, a role uniquely informed by having been one of FPJ's clients herself. She is pursuing her degree in management and communication at San Francisco City college while working part-time with FPJ.

Tay joined FPJ in 2023 as a mitigation specialist. She previously worked as a criminal defense investigator on court-appointed cases in the Bay Area, and as a private investigator on civil litigation and corporate due diligence. Prior to becoming an investigator, Tay was a reporter and editor for 10 years.

Jesse Stout is excited to work towards abolition of the death penalty while serving on FPJ's board. He is a longtime criminal justice activist and attorney experienced in corporate law, criminal defense, and legislative advocacy. Jesse is an attorney at Greenbridge Corporate Counsel and a member of the No New SF Jail Coalition. He previously served as Policy Director at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, organizing and lobbying to advance the rights of formerly incarcerated people. Jesse holds degrees from Brown University and UC Hastings College of the Law. During law school he interned with the California Assembly Public Safety Committee, analyzing legislation and making vote recommendations to then-chairman Asm. Tom Ammiano. Before law school, he served as executive director of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition; the RI Medical Marijuana Act ultimately overcame three gubernatorial vetoes, protecting thousands from arrest.

Julie is a digital media, tech, and sales leader with 25+ years of experience building and scaling businesses, innovating go-to-market strategies, leading teams, cultivating allyship, mentoring, and changing the game for consumers, employees, and brands. Julie leads the Global Client Solutions team at Reddit. She received an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA in International Relations and French from the University of San Diego.

Mirra is a mitigation specialist and a trained defense victim outreach specialist. She has been working on behalf of men and women facing severe sentences for over a decade. She holds degrees in psychology, mental health, and law from Stanford University and UC Hastings College of the Law.

Owner of Moira DeNike Consulting, Moira provides consulting services to nonprofit and public agencies. Moira specializes in K-12 public education, racial equity, juvenile justice, trauma-informed care, behavioral health, and criminal justice.

Robin Kallman is a supervising attorney and Director of Legal Training at the Office of the State Public Defender (OSPD) in Oakland, where she has worked for over 30 years, representing people sentenced to death on direct appeal and in related habeas corpus proceedings. Prior to OSPD, she worked as an attorney at the San Francisco County Public Defender’s Office and at the Institutional Legal Service Project of what was then Evergreen Legal Services in Tacoma, Washington. She is a native of the Bay Area and graduated from Oberlin College and Hastings College of the Law.

Seth Bain is a serial entrepreneur whose career has focused on design, branding and strategic consulting. He was CEO and co-founder of the award-winning design agency Sequence, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2017. He has been a strategic advisor to many innovative companies, nonprofit organizations and early-stage start-ups, and teaches Design Thinking and Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (where he also received his MBA). Seth is a passionate believer in the power of transformative justice, and he spends much of his time working with nonprofit groups to help amplify their message and scale their impact.

Taeva Shefler is a human rights advocate and attorney with a focus on the rights of the incarcerated. She is a plaintiffs' lawyer at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP with specialties in complex litigation, securities civil fraud, and consumer rights. She represents cities and counties across the country in federal multi-district litigations seeking to hold large corporations accountable for public harms such as the opioid epidemic (National Prescription Opiate Litigation) and the youth mental health epidemic as a result of social media addiction (In re Social Media Addiction Litigation). In 2014, she co-founded a nontraditional legal clinic, the Prisoner Advocacy Network, which focused on individual human rights advocacy for incarcerated Californians, and served as its Executive Director until the organization sunsetted in 2022. She has served on the boards of California Prison Focus, committed to abolishing solitary confinement in California prisons, and Families with a Future, supporting survivors of abuse. Taeva graduated from the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and from the New York University School of Law. In law school, Taeva worked for the Prisoner Rights Project with the Legal Aid Society and interned with the Federal Defenders of New York. Since 2007 and through to today, Taeva has served as a core volunteer with the Prison Activist Resource Center, an all-volunteer collective that publishes and distributes free information guides to those serving time in prisons and jails nationwide.