Valery R. Arévalo is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. She received her bachelor’s degree in criminology & Interpersonal Communication with a Sociology minor. Her research interests pertain to racial and ethnic disparities in community policing and access to language justice and mental health accessibility in immigrant communities.

Amelia was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. She moved to Boston to attend Tufts University where she earned her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Spanish. Since graduating, she moved back to Durham and joined our team as a Clinical Research Specialist. She is deeply passionate about the criminal legal system and its effects on vulnerable populations.

Alice Cates is a Regulatory Coordinator for the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice and the former Project Coordinator of the JCOIN PIERS project at UNC-CH. She received her bachelor degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and a M.S. in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston School of Public Health in 2008. Over the past 15 years, Alice has held various and sundry roles on an assortment of public health research projects in Texas, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Her research interests include HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and the impact of the criminal legal system on health disparities affecting individuals and their communities.

Hannah Camp is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. She received her master's in public health and social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024, and her bachelor's degree from American University in 2019. Her research interests revolve around trauma and adverse childhood experiences and how they impact sexual and reproductive health equity.

Tasia Danns is an anthropologist who graduated with her M.A., with a Medical and Cultural Anthropology focus from East Carolina University in 2023. During graduate school, Tasia worked on an applied cultural project and developed her passion for community-based research. She is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. Her interests include the impact of cultural determinants on various aspects, primarily through community-based research.

Kate Plyler is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. She received her bachelor degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2013 and a MSW from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017. Her research interests generally share a common focus on the interactions between individuals and the institutions which purport to serve them - particularly the child welfare system and social safety net programs.

Margaret Roach is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded community safety project. She earned her MPH in Health Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2023 and her B.S. in Psychology from Wofford College in 2021. Her public health research interests are suicide, disability justice, alternative crisis response models, and the public health impacts of carceral health services. As someone who has survived psychiatric incarceration ("hospitalization"), she is committed to translating research into anti-carceral, community-led mental health systems. 

Madelene Travis is a Clinical Research Coordinator with the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. She graduated from Colorado College in 2017 with a B.A. in Sociology, with a focus on the sociology of health and medicine. Broadly, her research interests include the social determinants of health, novel interventions for substance use and trauma, and the intersection between the criminal legal system and opioid use.