Kenya Mack currently serves as the Adult Immunization Coordinator for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Her work in the health sector employs a social work perspective to promote the health and safety of the city’s most vulnerable populations. With a background in direct practice and a commitment to equity, she aims to close access gaps that exist for women and girls in Philadelphia.

Kenya holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a 2016 CLAS alum of Villanova University. 

Brad Mellinger is a software engineer with 25 years of experience in building complex, scalable systems. He has a proven track record of technical leadership, with the ability to communicate across both technical and non-technical roles in service of delivering high quality software on time and within budget.

Brad is a graduate of Bucknell University. He received his Master’s degree in Economics from University of Notre Dame.

Morkea Spellman became a tireless advocate for the wrongfully convicted on August 20, 2010—the day her teenage daughter, India Spellman, was arrested for crimes she did not commit. Homicide detectives illegally prevented Ms. Spellman from being present during their interrogation of 17-year-old India. They falsely claimed her daughter had confessed and demanded that she sign paperwork that later turned out to be a juvenile waiver of Miranda. She refused. Ms. Spellman’s refusal became the bedrock for successfully overturning India’s wrongful conviction. She has since expanded her advocacy to other cases. In addition to her work with Philly Justice Project, she is training to become a licensed private investigator.

Dr. Catherine Warrick is Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. She teaches courses on comparative law and politics in the Middle East and United Kingdom. She is the author of Law in the Service of Legitimacy: Gender and Politics in Jordan (Ashgate, 2009). Professor Warrick is Vice President of the Villanova campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors and serves as the Editor in Chief of Digest of Middle East Studies.

Dr. Warrick holds a Ph.D. in comparative politics from Georgetown University. She is a graduate of University of Notre Dame.