Staff

Amy Crysel, CLPP Assoc. Director/Administration | acrysel@hampshire.edu directs the day to day operations of the CLPP and PopDev programs including fiscal oversight and personnel management and is responsible for the coordination of the annual conference. Amy has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and has a background in management in the non-profit sector. Her graduate work was rooted in mindfulness practices and philosophy and those practices ground the work she does at CLPP. Amy’s passion for social justice stems from being raised in the deep south and witnessing and experiencing the effects of racial, gender and class oppression.

Corinna Yazbek, CLPP Program Coordinator | cyazbek@hampshire.edu manages our summer internship program, the Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC), NLNI programming and other projects. After being the first in her family to graduate from college in 2001, Corinna worked with Arise for Social Justice, a poor people's rights organization, as their development coordinator. She continued in the movement for economic justice and joined the staff at Class Action in 2004. Corinna has been active with prison-abolition, anti-racism and youth empowerment organizations locally and around the country for years. She is a donor to F.I.E.R.C.E. NYC, a volunteer with Flywheel Arts Collective, and an avid runner.

Ellen Gattozzi, CLPP Program Assistant | ebgCLPP@hampshire.edu is excited to be back in Western Massachusetts after spending the summer in Philadelphia working with the Pennsylvania ACLU's Clara Bell Duvall Reproductive Freedom Project. Ellen graduated from Hampshire College in 2008 with a concentration in public, reproductive and sexual health. Her thesis focused on intimate partner abuse in queer contexts. Ellen also interned at the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center in Lake Andes, South Dakota, as a 2007 RRASC, and at Tapestry Health in Amherst, Massachusetts. Ellen coordinates the CLPP student group and helps coordinate the annual conference.

Lani Blechman, CLPP Operations Assistant | lmbCLPP@hampshire.edu is excited to bring her CLPP program experience to operations and administration. Lani started working with CLPP in 2005 as a member of the student organizing group. Since then she has held the positions of Student Conference Coordinator, Program Intern, and Program Assistant. During the summer of 2006, Lani was a RRASC intern at Class Action. Currently, Lani is a board member of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project, based in New York, and is on their Young Women's Leadership Council. Lani is a queer, bbq-loving, re-located Miamian who finished her BA at Hampshire College in 2008. You can read her musings, aka love-and-organizing, at Amplify Your Voice.

Mia Kim Sullivan, CLPP Assoc. Director/Programs | mksCLPP@hampshire.edu directs new and existing program areas including the CLPP conference, newsletter, a national summer internship program, and a collaborative network for new and emerging leaders in the movement.  Mia also oversees efforts to strengthen program infrastructure, sustainability, and participant and issue diversity, develops ongoing community and internal movement relationships for CLPP, and supervises program staff.  Before joining CLPP, Mia worked on civil rights and poverty law litigation, legislative advocacy and community organizing as a staff attorney for legal services organizations in Massachusetts and Michigan. Mia is a member of the Northampton Human Rights Commission and the board of the Third Wave Foundation.  She is licensed to practice in Massachusetts, California, Michigan, and the Eastern District of Michigan, and is a graduate of New York University School of Law.

Tina Barsby, CLPP Development Officer | tbCLPP@hampshire.edu oversees grant writing and administration, CLPP’s Endowment Initiative, and stewardship and reporting of grants.  Before joining CLPP, Tina was Director of Development and Alumni Relations for the University of Cape Town Fund, a U.S. organization supporting the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Previously she was Program Coordinator for the Five College African Scholars Program and an Associate Director of Admissions for Hampshire College.  Tina has varied experience in higher education and non-profit administration, including program planning, international education and communications, both in the U.S. and in South Africa.