Dear FAMMily,
We are thrilled to announce that two members of our FAMM team whom you may know – Mary Price and Shanna Rifkin – are advancing into new roles!
Shanna Rifkin, who has served as FAMM’s Deputy General Counsel for almost 4 years, will now lead as General Counsel. Mary Price, who has led as FAMM’s General Counsel, is taking a newly established role of FAMM Senior Counsel.
With this change, we can strengthen our position as a leader in reforming the criminal justice system at both the federal and state levels.
This change will advance our compassionate release work across the country. In just four years, Shanna has pioneered major federal Compassionate Release Clearinghouse initiatives, including the Dublin Project, through which she secured release for people who survived sexual abuse in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Her work led the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) to add a first-ever compassionate release criterion for sexual abuse survivors. Shanna has also helped ensure that people serving sentences that can no longer be imposed have an avenue to compassionate release. Additionally, Shanna’s stewardship of FAMM’s amicus advocacy has ensured our members’ voices are heard in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mary has led our Office of General Counsel for 25 years. She has advocated sentencing reform and second chances avenues – such as retroactivity and compassionate release – at the USSC, the BOP, the U.S. Congress, and state legislatures and agencies, and will continue to advocate for the FAMMily.
Shanna and Mary both speak out in the news media. They’ve been quoted in news outlets such as the Associated Press, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg, NewsNation, Reason, Rolling Stone, and Bolts magazine.
Please join me in celebrating Mary and Shanna’s new roles – we’re so excited for this change to empower our FAMMily to go further.
Onward,
