Prison Fellowship’s Advocacy and Public Policy Team

Sr. Vice President, Advocacy & Church Mobilization

Heather Rice-Minus serves as senior vice president of advocacy and church mobilization at Prison Fellowship, the nation's largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their families. She is a powerful, knowledgeable voice articulating the case for restorative criminal justice solutions and how churches play a critical role in meeting the needs of those impacted by crime and incarceration.

Rice-Minus provides strategic leadership to several teams at Prison Fellowship, including grassroots and policy staff, to advance campaigns on pivotal criminal justice issues. She spearheads Prison Fellowship’s efforts to build new church resources and deepen church partnerships through programs like Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree. Additionally, she directs Prison Fellowship’s outreach to and partnerships with foundations.

A valued shaper of the criminal justice reform debate because of her wide-ranging policy expertise, Rice-Minus has contributed to Christianity Today, Slate, CBN News, the Marshall Project, PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, and WORLD Magazine, among others. She is the co-author of Outrageous Justice, a multimedia Bible study curriculum and companion book produced by Prison Fellowship. She maintains a vested interest in justice reform as someone who has both been a victim of crime and walked alongside a family member during his incarceration.

A native of Virginia, Rice-Minus resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband and daughter. They welcomed another child as foster parents in 2020. Prior to her tenure at Prison Fellowship, she managed advocacy efforts on behalf of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. She is a graduate of Colorado State University and George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. She is a member of the Virginia State Bar and a Colson Fellow.

Director, Policy & Research

Kate Trammell serves as the director of policy and research at Prison Fellowship, the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their families. She is well-versed in criminal law and has expertise conducting state and federal issue advocacy campaigns and equipping local churches for political engagement.

Trammell oversees the development of Prison Fellowship’s policy positions on criminal justice issues. She directs the organization’s state and federal lobbying initiatives designed to bring justice that restores to those impacted by crime and incarceration across America. This work includes negotiating strategic partnerships, building and maintaining national and statewide coalitions, and directing policy staff and lobbying activities.

In addition, Trammell directs Prison Fellowship’s research and technical writing to build a data-based, values-centered approach to justice that restores. She serves the policymaker members of the Faith and Justice Fellowship, a bipartisan body of members of Congress, governors, and state legislators motivated by their faith traditions to advance restorative values in criminal justice reform. Trammell has contributed to stories on criminal and juvenile justice reform in the Christian Post and Business Insider.

Prior to joining Prison Fellowship, Trammell worked directly with law enforcement, victims of crime, and criminal defendants as a magistrate for the Supreme Court of Virginia. She is a graduate of Liberty University School of Law, with added studies in international law and comparative criminal procedure, and is a member of the Virginia State Bar. She resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and their two children.

Senior Manager, Grassroots Program

Sammy Perez leads Prison Fellowship’s grassroots program to build and mobilize a network of Christians who are passionate about justice that restores. Perez manages a team to equip Justice Advocates and Justice Ambassadors in the U.S. to raise awareness and improve the criminal justice system through digital advocacy, constituent lobbying, media engagement, and storytelling. After rediscovering faith in Christ, Perez, who has spent time in prison, overcame his past and began to serve others impacted by crime and incarceration, including volunteering as a Prison Fellowship Justice Ambassador before joining as a full-time employee. His writing has been published in Shared Justice as well as several regional Virginia outlets, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch and NoVa News. Perez was reappointed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Prevention in the Commonwealth.

Perez graduated from Liberty University with a degree in psychology, specializing in addiction and recovery, and is currently completing graduate studies in clinical mental health counseling. He enjoys life with his lovely wife and four children.

Manager of Government Affairs

David Jimenez serves as the manager of government affairs for Prison Fellowship’s advocacy and public policy team, where he oversees federal and state legislative campaigns. His background is in public policy advocacy and institution building, most recently as a primary manager for the American Enterprise Institute’s outreach to college students, faculty, and administrators. As an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Maine, Jimenez studied history and political theory. After graduating, he participated in the Hudson Institute’s Political Studies Fellowship and was a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Romania.

A proud alumnus of Prison Fellowship’s internship program, he first became passionate about criminal justice reform while serving urban youth in New Jersey, where he saw up close the urgent need for restorative approaches to incarceration, law enforcement, and violence. He is passionate about theology, social policy, ethics, and culture. A Pittsburgh native, Jimenez lives in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Advocacy Events and Operations Manager

Angela Kim serves Prison Fellowship’s advocacy team by planning and executing national-, federal-, and state-level events to advance justice that restores. She manages the advocacy team’s participation in conferences and speaking engagements and oversees event logistics for Prison Fellowship’s major initiatives like Second Chance Month. She also provides the strategic operational support required to ensure efficiency for all advocacy programs and internal logistics, with an eye towards holistic outcomes. Kim’s lived experience with the criminal justice system and her faith in Christ motivate her to help those who are marginalized and work to advance criminal justice reform.

Kim completed her undergraduate studies in crime, law, and justice at Pennsylvania State University. In addition to her work at Prison Fellowship, she frequently volunteers in the community through special needs ministry and outreach to those who are homeless.

Faith-Based Outreach Manager

Andrew Brashier serves on the policy team as the faith-based outreach manager, creating and developing relationships with pastors and faith leaders to deepen advocacy engagement and church partnerships with Prison Fellowship. Brashier also advocates on issues of criminal justice reform before lawmakers, partner organizations, and members of the faith community. He is committed to encouraging lawmakers to model legislation on the biblical values of justice, equity, mercy, and restoration. Brashier looks forward to co-laboring with ministers and faith leaders through Prison Fellowship’s programs aimed at holistically approaching crime and incarceration. Brashier’s areas of expertise include incarceration, reentry policy, and other issues related to criminal law.

Prior to joining Prison Fellowship, Brashier was a partner at Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., one of the nation’s most prestigious plaintiff’s law firms, and was named 2018 Fraud Section Lawyer of the Year. He is rated by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating system as “AV Preeminent”; was named a 2018 and 2017 Super Lawyers “Rising Star”; received the Wiedemann & Wysocki Award from the American Association for Justice; received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the UAB College of Arts and Sciences; and received the first UAB Young Alumni Rising Star Award. He graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University with a Juris Doctor and certificate in trial advocacy and earned a double major in political science and history from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). An Alabama native, Brashier resides with his family in the Birmingham metro area where he pastors at the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd.

Advocacy Project Manager

Kelli Frager serves the advocacy and public policy team at Prison Fellowship by managing internal and external partnerships, as well as providing project management for advocacy campaigns at the state and federal levels. She brings her commitment to advancing social justice from her extensive background in arts engagement programming and advocacy. Having developed community-building opportunities for people from various backgrounds to connect through art, music, and storytelling, Frager has great passion for celebrating all that makes us human. She participates in the Shakespeare In Prisons Network and has witnessed over and over the power of the arts in transforming individuals and communities on both sides of prison walls. Frager also has the life experience of walking alongside an incarcerated family member since she was a young teen. Seeing how recovery groups, education, creative programs, and faith have made a powerful and lasting impact gives her the deep desire to advocate for incarcerated communities and families. Frager attended Azusa Pacific University and lives in Oceanside, California.

Legislative Research Manager

Chelsea Friske serves Prison Fellowship’s advocacy team by managing the tracking of criminal justice trends at the state and federal levels, authoring technical writing pieces in support of justice reform campaigns, and producing resources that raise the profile of values-based criminal justice reform.

Friske is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law and Bay Path College, where she studied criminal justice and psychology, with a research focus on the experience of children in the courtroom and the treatment of those convicted of sex offenses. She completed internships in probation and police departments during college and gained experience in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Commonwealth Attorney’s Office during and after law school. Friske and her husband reside in Northern Virginia.

Grassroots Engagement Manager

Stella Kim serves Prison Fellowship’s advocacy team by creating strategic grassroots content and campaigns mobilizing individuals to act on criminal justice reform at the state and federal levels. After her undergraduate years, Kim spent a year working for the University of Florida’s Brown Center for Leadership and Service focusing on the university’s higher ed civic engagement and leadership initiatives. She moved to Austin, Texas, to work for a nonprofit lowering the youthful recidivism rate through spiritual and workforce development. There, before joining Prison Fellowship, she worked in intergovernmental relations for Mayor Steve Adler, helping to run communications and community engagement initiatives and serving as a liaison for the Asian American Pacific Islander community.

Throughout college, Kim had internships and volunteer experiences in the field of human trafficking. Through street, club and jail outreaches, she felt called to advocate for holistic justice and second chances for prisoners. Kim believes the church must take a proactive approach to justice reform, as Micah 6:8 commands us to do justice and love mercy. Kim currently lives in Austin, Texas, serving in her local church and continuing to play an active role with the city.

Senior Legislative Analyst

Angela Inglett serves Prison Fellowship’s state advocacy team by identifying legislative opportunities, informing policy priorities, and investigating campaign impact. As senior legislative analyst, Inglett provides information necessary to execute effective public policy campaigns. Prior to joining Prison Fellowship, she managed and developed educational programming opportunities for local government officials in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She also spent four years on Capitol Hill, where she managed a diverse portfolio of legislative issues ranging from labor to agricultural policy.

Inglett’s educational background centered on politics and public policy, a choice spurred by her interests in philosophy, morality, and culture. A lifelong citizen of Virginia, Inglett and her husband reside in Richmond.

Senior Justice Ambassador Specialist

Krista Ortiz serves Prison Fellowship’s advocacy team by building and mobilizing a network of people who are passionate about justice that restores. She equips Prison Fellowship’s Justice Ambassadors in the eastern United States to improve the criminal justice system using strategies like constituent lobbying, media engagement, and storytelling. Ortiz also oversees and manages Prison Fellowship’s free virtual Outrageous Justice small groups. Ortiz’s passion for seeking justice and serving others is founded upon one of her favorite quotes from Winston Churchill: “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” Her faith in Christ and belief that change is possible when Christians act on behalf of others motivates her to help individuals find and raise their voice to advance justice that restores for all.

Ortiz holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work, with specialties in community mobilization, research, advocacy, and public policy. She currently resides in Northern Virginia and cherishes life with her husband and son.

Justice Ambassador Specialist

Jane Collins serves as a Justice Ambassador specialist in the western United States, leading a team to advance federal and state campaigns and equipping individuals to mobilize their communities. From an early age, Collins felt the call to serve incarcerated individuals and people returning home from prison. While volunteering and working inside correctional facilities in various roles, she witnessed the importance of mobilizing the church and communities to advance justice that restores.

Collins earned her undergraduate degree in criminal justice and is currently pursuing a master’s in social work. She resides in Des Moines, Iowa, where she enjoys spending time with friends and family, watching and playing sports, and finding new coffee shops.

Justice Ambassador Specialist

Lorenzo Lewis serves Prison Fellowship’s advocacy team as a Justice Ambassador specialist, coming alongside the grassroots team to support justice that restores. Lewis is an ordained minister and Christian life coach specializing in reentry, with a heart for currently incarcerated people and those reintegrating back into their communities. Lewis has served as a trainer for Life Empowerment Enterprise’s Life Coach Certification program. With 30 years’ experience in management, customer service, and transportation, Lewis has served as a facilitator at Phillips State Prison in Buford, Georgia, and first volunteered as a Justice Ambassador with Prison Fellowship in 2017.

Lewis studied business management at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He and his wife, Sandra, live in Atlanta, where they enjoy serving their local church together.