Team

We draw from our diverse backgrounds and skill sets to come together in service of housing justice

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  • JustFix Team
  • Board of Directors
  • Alumni

Meet the JustFix Team

Joel Stillman

Joel Stillman

Co-Executive Director

Joel (he/him) works with teams to increase community access to critical services and information. His goal is to co-create products and processes that enable people to hold power accountable. Prior to joining JustFix, Joel was a product design director at The New York Times, a fellow at Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood Foundation, and a fellow at The Center for Urban Pedagogy. He loves road trips, playing guitar, and backpacking in the mountains.

Prakriti Rajan Babu

Prakriti Rajan Babu

Co-Executive Director

Prakriti (she/her) is a management generalist with a passion for organizational development. She has spent the majority of her career in the Education sector and wants to continue to partner with and deliver impact to under-served communities at JustFix. She completed her MBA from Tuck School of Business and most recently served as the COO at Teach For Vietnam. In her free time, you will find Prakriti laughing at memes, enjoying fantasy fiction, and packing her bag for the next trip.

Maxwell Austensen

Maxwell Austensen

Senior Software Engineer

Maxwell (he/him) comes to JustFix with a background in research and analysis using NYC housing data. He enjoys learning and teaching new technologies with others, and organizing to stop evictions. Maxwell is passionate about using data and technology to support the tenant movement in organizing to build tenant power and fight for a world without landlords and rent.

Johanna Monge

Johanna Monge

Associate Product Manager

Johanna Monge (she/her/ella), a lifelong Queens gal, daughter of Peruvian immigrants and tenant organizer, integrates her passion for transformative justice into all her work. She co-founded Astoria Tenant Union at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic utilizing the skills she gained from organizing in Inwood and Washington Heights while at the Metropolitan Council on Housing. She graduated from Clark University with an honors degree in Political Science and Urban Development.

Ki Wan Sim

Ki Wan Sim

Senior Software Engineer

Ki Wan is a software engineer committed to using technology for social justice by centering communities at the margins. Prior to JustFix, she was a full stack developer at NGP VAN, creating political organizing tools for Democrats, progressives, and labor unions. Ki Wan also co-founded Fire, a mobile app equipping undocumented folks against unlawful enforcement tactics. After hours, she can be found making ceramics or hanging out with her two rescue cats.

Board of Directors

Georges Clement

Georges Clement

Co-Founder

Georges is an experienced entrepreneur and product manager. He was a Cheng Fellow and received his Master’s in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, Georges was a Fellow with Blue Ridge Labs @ the Robin Hood Foundation and a Product Manager at General Assembly. He is a New Yorker with a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy. Georges is a prison abolitionist who enjoys playing soccer in the park and eating bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches from his corner bodega.

Stan Morse

Stan Morse

Lead Organizer

Stan is the Lead Organizer for the Justice for All Coalition, an organizing group based in Astoria / Long Island City that focuses on advocacy for NYCHA residents. As someone who has grown up in public housing, the issues facing NYCHA residents have always been personal to Stan. He has over 10 years experience as an organizer, and in addition to working on affordable housing and NYCHA issues, he has also worked on anti-gun violence and anti-bullying campaigns that were focused primarily on reaching the youth. Stan has been a power user of JustFix tools, helping 100+ NYCHA residents in Queensbridge send letters of complaint, hosting trainings, and more.

Ashley Treni

Ashley Treni

Co-Founder

Ashley is a UX designer and researcher with a background in information design and data visualization who believes in the power of co-creation and human centered design process.

Ignacio Jaureguilorda

Ignacio Jaureguilorda

Director, Poverty Justice Solutions

Ignacio Jaureguilorda is the director of Poverty Justice Solutions. Before joining the Center for Court Innovation, he worked as a public interest attorney for 14 years, providing free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers. Most recently, Jaureguilorda served as director of legal services at the AIDS Center of Queens County, where he spearheaded the organization’s legal and public policy work and represented people with terminal and chronic illnesses. Previously, he served as an attorney with Housing Works, a non-profit organization that works on HIV/AIDS and homelessness issues, litigating cases involving income discrimination in real estate and discrimination against transgender individuals. Jaureguilorda has represented clients in a wide range of matters, including landlord-tenant disputes, public benefits, discrimination, immigration, and family law.

Jean Schneider

Jean Schneider

Retired Judge and Legal Services Attorney

Jean worked for 20 years as a civil legal services attorney representing tenants in the New York City Housing Court in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island. She also served for three years as the elected president of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, the UAW-affiliated union representing staff attorneys employed at the Legal Aid Society. Jean served as a Judge of the New York City Housing Court for 25 years, retiring in 2022.

Saundrea I. Coleman

Saundrea I. Coleman

Activist / Organizer

Saundrea has over two decades of work experience within public service, she is a retired payroll supervisor. She is a longtime tenant organizer advocating for repairs and funding for public housing tenants in NYC and beyond. She helped lead a group of Upper East Side NYCHA residents to resist and stop the Infill Proposal at Holmes Towers. She also with a group of close to 30 tenants sued NYCHA for repairs and better living conditions in 2019. She actually does home visits, advocates and writes emails on behalf of suffering tenants in public and private housing. Saundrea is known as a Social Justice Crusader fighting for those who are oppressed, unhoused, abused by law enforcement and those who have been harmed by systemic policies. She is also an ordained minister and does not mind getting into Good Trouble!

Many thanks to our JustFix Alumni!

Many thanks to our JustFix Alumni!

Leslie Krivo-Kaufman, Product Design Lead

Sateesh Nori, Executive Director

Grae Wallach, Operations and HR Associate

Vincent Tsai, Marketing & Communications Manager

Angela Lee Stovall, Housing Specialist

Aaron Doades, Board Member

Tahnee Pantig, Design Lead

Shannon Kao, Engineer

Risha Parikh, UX Researcher

Heather Weston, Board Chair

Stephanie (Steph) Rudolph, Deputy Director

Sam Rabiyah, Data Lead and Engineer

Samara Trilling, Staff Software Engineer

Mallory Frye, Product Designer

Annalise Irby, Product Manager

Pinky Chan, Director of People Operations

Atul Varma, Lead Engineer & Tinkerer

Mariko Hokamura, Fundraising Development Intern, Summer 2021

Alejandro Quintero, Extern, Strategy & Research, Spring 2021

Johanna Bassetti, Director of Product

Daniel Lee, UX/UI Designer

Analisa Freitas, Program Director

Ilana Novick, Communications Associate

Susanna Blankley, Board Member

Sydney Jones, Engineering Intern, Summer 2020

Jon Truong, Director of National Partnerships

Labiba Chowdhury, Data Science Consultant

Dan Kass, Co-founder and Executive Director

Stacy Livingston, Communications & Marketing Volunteer, Summer 2019

Alyssa Romanos, Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2019

Adalky Capellán, Outreach Coordinator

Caitlin Jones, Social Enterprise Fellow, Summer 2018

Juan Figueroa, Board Member

Mariano Werneck, Designer

Jenn Scheer, Designer & Front-end Developer

Tim Ahmed, Volunteer Housing Coach 2017 - 2018

Akiera Charles, Communications Intern Spring 2018

Alicia Nieves, 2017 Legal Fellow

Matt Egan, Web Developer

Mayuka Sarukkai, Summer 2017 Intern

Angelica Alvarez, Fall 2017 Intern

Faculty & Students at Columbia Law

Raphael Lee, Fast Forward Advisor, Summer 2016