SAFE Staff:

Elisabeth Olds
Co-Executive Director

Natalia Otero
Co-Executive Director

Jenny Wesberry
On-Call Advocacy Program Coordinator

Baylis Beard
Court Advocacy Program Coordinator

SAFE advocates can be contacted by calling 202-879-7851.


SAFE Board of Directors:

Krisan Swaminathan
Chair
Affiliations: formerly with Break the Cycle and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr

Ellen Opper-Weiner
Vice Chair
Affiliations: Practicing Family Law Attorney; Licensed Clinical
Social Worker; Co-founder and Vice Chair, Southeast Citizens for Smart Development

Erin Currier
Treasurer
Affiliations: Senior Associate, Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts

Charles E. McLean, Jr.
Secretary
Affiliations: Associate Director, Community Investment and Affordable Housing Program, Federal Housing Finance Board

Carolyn Campbell
Affiliations: Managing Director and General Counsel, Emerging Capital Partners

Sarah Potter
Affiliations: Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Children and Youth Policy Division

Michelle Rathbun
Affiliations: Director of Special Events, Washington Performing Arts Society

Devon Leppink Staren
Affiliations: Practicing Attorney

Elisabeth Olds
SAFE Co-Executive Director (ex officio)

Ana Natalia Otero
SAFE Co-Executive Director (ex officio)

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