Team Department: Policy

Sana Naqvi is a State Legislative Affairs Manager at FAMM. In this role, she supports legislative strategies to reduce incarceration, improve prison systems, and promote humane, evidence-based sentencing reform. Before joining FAMM, Sana worked as a criminal defense attorney in Chicago, handling cases that ranged from misdemeanors to serious felonies. She also served as a…

Katrina Baugh (“baw”) serves as Senior Policy Director at FAMM. In this role, she manages FAMM’s day-to-day multi-state legislative and non-legislative policy work and provides support and technical assistance to policy makers as well as a national network of second look advocates. Katrina has extensive experience in non-profit management, advocacy, community organizing, and direct lobbying,…

Eden Kinlock joined FAMM’s policy team in January 2024. In her role as State Legislative Affairs Manager she spearheads our Visit-a-Prison campaign, a hallmark of FAMM’s work to open the hearts and minds of decision makers across the country. Her work tracking legislation, monitoring sentencing and prison reform developments, and performing legislative and policy research…

Bryan Widenhouse was given a life without parole sentence when he was 17 years old. During his incarceration he accepted accountability for the harm he caused and chose to serve the community and better himself. Bryan has developed and managed national award-winning projects and programs. He served five terms as president of the prison’s chapter…

Matthew Charles was sentenced in 1996 to a thirty-five year federal sentence for nonviolent offenses. His sentence length was the result of an unjust disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. After serving twenty-two years on that sentence, he became the first beneficiary of the First Step Act signed into law in 2018. Matthew has…