Chloe Cockburn is a field strategist, thought leader, and philanthropic donor advisor working to end mass incarceration. She is the founder and CEO of Just Impact Advisors, which she launched with her team in 2021 with $50 million in capital from Open Philanthropy. Chloe leads strategy, donor education, and grant making for Just Impact.

For more than 15 years, Chloe has crafted policy and strategy at organizations focused on criminal justice reform, including the ACLU. Most recently, she directed the criminal justice reform portfolio for Open Philanthropy, a grantmaker primarily advising Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, whom she advised on over $150 million in giving over 6 years. During this same period, she advised additional donors on over $100 million in giving. The large majority of those dollars went to launching and building up new organizations founded by emerging leaders.

Chloe is a prolific writer. You can find her strategic analysis and insights on Substack, in SSIR, and the Washington Post. She also serves as a board member and advisor to the Bia Echo Foundation, and holds degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her family and enjoys hiking and reading science fiction.

Marisa Renee Lee serves as our operations and partnerships lead. In that capacity Marisa works to identify local organizations who are working to support the movement to reform prosecution in America. In addition to work with Just Impact Marisa is a called upon grief advocate, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of "Grief is Love: Living with Loss."

In addition to her work in the grief space and for Just Impact, Marisa is a former appointee in the Obama White House where she served as the Deputy Director of Private Sector Engagement and a Senior Advisor on the Domestic Policy Council, and the CEO of Beacon Advisors, a mission-driven consulting firm primarily focused on racial equity. Marisa is known as a rabble-rouser of social healing: former managing director of My Brother's Keeper Alliance; co-founder of the digital platform Supportal; and founder of The Pink Agenda, a national organization dedicated to raising money for breast cancer care, research, and awareness.

Marisa regularly contributes to The Atlantic, Glamour, Vogue, MSNBC, CNN and serves as an expert for Ritual's wellbeing app. She is a Harvard graduate and an avid home cook. She lives in Virginia with her husband Matt, son Bennett, and the world’s coolest dog, Sadie.

Zack leads Just Impact’s partnership development initiatives, and provides ongoing support and solutions to our network of non-profit team leaders, donors and partners. He brings considerable experience in sourcing, conducting diligence on and fundraising for early-stage venture capital investments, along with strong technical knowledge of the criminal justice system.

Before joining Just Impact, Zack spent five years with Bail Capital, a cannabis and psychedelic medicine-focused venture capital firm, where he was a founding member and manager. He is also a co-founder of Besito, a Los Angeles-based company making premium cannabis products. Previously, Zack served for more than 4 years as a public defender in New Orleans.

Most recently, Zack helped create and launch a fellowship program that brought AM top 100 law firm, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, in partnership with the non-profit Midwest Innocence Project, which works to free innocent people serving lengthy sentences throughout the Midwest. Zack was the inaugural BCLP-MIP Fellow, and gained experience both as a corporate structuring and M&A deal lawyer as well as working on complex petitions to free people from prison. He lives in St. Louis, and is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School.

Povneet manages our grants administration systems. She brings experience in developing administrative systems, streamlining day-to-day operations, and ensuring an exceptional grantee experience from working with Open Philanthropy’s grant management team.

Prior to joining Open Philanthropy, she worked as a Project Management Analyst. She has also worked as a Programs Manager with Chisom Housing Group, providing social services and programs to residents of affordable housing communities. Povneet interned with Justice Policy Institute and graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Criminology and Nonprofit Studies. Her interest in ending systemic racism can be traced back to her childhood filled with stories from her father about his experiences with racist people in positions of power in their rural Virginia hometown.

Jasson is our program lead, working to support the organizing of our organization and campaign partners. Jasson has organized professionally for 20 years as a community and labor organizer both nationally and locally in Chicago. His main areas of work have been fighting privatization of public schools and parks as well as organizing to stop mass criminalization and policing.

Jasson is a writer, organizer and researcher who studies the connections between leftist organizing approaches, political movement formation, policing, incarceration, and economics. He works to create political projects that connect organizing fights for economic, climate and social justice to the politics of abolition, decolonization and socialism.

You can find Jasson’s writing and research at Dissent, Spectre, Jacobin, Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and the Cook Center on Social Equity. When Jasson isn’t selling his labor for sustenance, you can find him watching the NBA, or trying his best to train as a elderly Crossfit and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete.