As Director of Organizing, Rebecca Asaki leads Tsuru for Solidarity’s immigration detention organizing and direct action work supporting Child & Family Detention, and Pol(ICE), Prisons & Detention campaigns. Rebecca has fifteen years of organizing experience empowering tenants, workers, immigrants, and AAPI community members, focusing on issues such as fair compensation, housing, legal representation, reproductive healthcare, and language rights. Based in Brooklyn, New York, and a Yonsei whose descendants were incarcerated during WWII, Rebecca actively participates in initiatives like the New York Day of Remembrance Committee.

Paul Susi is a multifaceted artist and social worker, from being a Peer Resource Navigator for Portland Street Medicine, connecting people living outside with medical help, to leading Conversation Projects for Oregon Humanities. He also runs a mutual aid project assisting with lost IDs and birth certificates. Not stopping there, Paul is bringing an adaptation of the Iliad to prisons in Oregon and the East Coast, while writing a book on immigrant identities and lost graves, set to be published this fall.

As a respected leader driving inclusive democracy organizations and campaigns in the Pacific Northwest, Amy Herzfeld-Copple is the Executive Director of the Western States Center (WSC). She began her career advocating for LGTBQ+ rights at the age of 14 in Idaho. Amy is known for her commitment to an inclusive democracy, policy advocacy, labor organizing, award-winning journalism, and served as the Executive Director of the then Idaho Human Rights Education Center and Co-Executive Director for Basic Rights Oregon.