Pam Clifton
Manager of Constituent Services
pam@ccjrc.org
Pam Clifton is CCJRC’s Communication Coordinator. She studied psychology and sociology at the University of Colorado and University of Washington. She has also spent two years studying film making at the Open Media Foundation. In 2002, she went to work as a fundraiser and supervisor for a local fundraising organization that raised money for non-profit and political organizations around the country. Pam joined the staff of CCJRC in 2006 to see collateral consequences reduced, drug laws changed, parole laws reformed and the warehousing of people in Colorado stopped. She believes that we must do whatever it takes to reintegrate people successfully back into communities which includes making sure that they understand their rights; especially their right to vote. The last few years she has been working on a campaign to reduce the number of women that are going to or going back to prison. Pam served seven years in prison in Colorado for a minor drug conviction and successfully completed parole in 2005. She has also become a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist and is a certified AccuDetox provider.
Christie Donner
Executive Director
christie@ccjrc.org
Christie Donner is CCJRC’s Executive Director and founder. Since 1995, she has been working in criminal justice reform advocacy, community organizing, policy research, and lobbying. Christie co-authored Parenting from Prison: A Resource Guide for Incarcerated Parents in Colorado. She is also the project lead for CCJRC’s publication Getting On After Getting Out: A Re-Entry Guide for Colorado. She represents Colorado on the executive committee of the National Network for Justice. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Kyle Giddings
Civic Engagement Coordinator (V.W.C.)
Kyle@ccjrc.org
Kyle Giddings is a Colorado native with deep roots in communities up and down the front range. The great-grandson of a coal miner from Trinidad, and the grandson of a migrant farmer from the San Luis Valley, Kyle draws upon the legacy of his ancestors to inspire him to work towards justice for the communities he’s a part of today. Working as the Civil Engagement Coordinator, Kyle hopes to work toward developing programs and implementing policies that help justice-involved people have a voice in their communities. Kyle believes that one of the cornerstones to reentry is participating in civic engagement, and believes that is why the Voting with Conviction program at CCJRC is so important. Kyle and his wife Erica reside in Olde Town Arvada, where they enjoy spending time in nature, playing Mario Party, traveling, and going on adventures with friends.
Jasmine Ross
Manager of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Program
jasmine@ccjrc.org
Jasmine Ross is originally from Haiti. Jasmine has been with CCJRC since 2017 and her current position is Civic Engagement Manager and Volunteer Program Manager. Over the years, Jasmine has been instrumental in building our civic engagement campaign and has helped to construct strategies that have been extremely successful within the community. Jasmine’s work has primarily been focused around elections, however, she has prioritized assisting local jails and justice-involved locations such as parole offices, halfway houses, and sober living homes in developing a workable plan to assist eligible voters that are incarcerated or have had a criminal background get access to voting and voting information. Jasmine also sits on the Bipartisan Election Advisory Commission with the Secretary of State and the Public Safety and Criminal Justice Policy Cabinet with the Denver Sheriff as a young voice helping to advocate for change in the criminal justice lens.
Jason Vitello
Equity and Community Development Manager
Jason@ccjrc.org
Jason Vitello is the past President of the Colorado Public Health Association, a practitioner at the Public Health Institute at Denver Health, and an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. He is also a national speaker, consultant, educator, and activist committed to the advancement of justice, equity, and healing in our communities, and in the systems that serve them. Formerly, Jason was a social worker and therapist who provided advocacy and clinical services to individuals from systemically excluded communities. It should be noted that before he was ever a provider of human services or family assistance – he was a recipient of them.
His ultimate interest is in collective liberation and the betterment of the human condition through fierce compassion, unity across struggles, the peaceful obliteration of structural inequalities, and comprehensive paradigm transformation.