Gateways Alumni

Mo Dick

As a student in the Everett Program, Mo began the Gateways Project with several of their fellow classmates. The original project solely offered digital media classes in Santa Cruz County jails, and as an Executive Fellow Mo has spent the past two years building capacity and connections with local advocacy organizations. They currently manage student/fellow projects and actively seek partnerships in the larger Bay Area focused on decarceration. Mo hopes to continue this work in advocacy and community organizing, and is a big fan of anything Octavia Butler (but recommends Fledgling!)

Tina Bullington

Tina joined the Gateways Project during her fellowship at the Everett Program her senior year at UC Santa Cruz. Throughout the project, Tina has focused on securing funding and social media outreach for the Gateways Project as well as co-teaching digital media classes. After graduating, Tina continues her work in the Gateways Project as an Executive Fellow and looks forward to expanding digital media classes across the county. She recommends the Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

Isabelle Aguirre

Now a fourth year student in the Everett Program, Isabelle began her work with the Gateways Project back in January. Since then she has assisted filmmaker Adamu Chan with minute editing and research for his documentary about the incarcerated community affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and co-taught a digital media class via Zoom teaching Adobe Illustrator and Phoptoshop to students at the Rountree Medium Facility. Now as a Fellow of the Everett Program, Isabelle is continuing her work with Gateways and is currently working on the StopSQZine Project to assist in producing a zine uplifting the voices and talent of incarcerated individuals. Isabelle is incredibly passionate about social justice and community organizing and plans on continuing her work after graduation. She highly recommends the book, “Monster”  by Walter Dean Myers, which was also made into a movie that you can stream on Netflix!

Phoenix Woodall

Phoenix is a fourth-year sociology major with a concentration in global information and social enterprise studies. She has been working with Gateways as a student on the documentary project What These Walls Won’t Hold in partnership with formerly incarcerated filmmaker Adamu Chan. The film is a portrayal of the community response sparked by the COVID-19 outbreak inside of San Quentin Prison. For the next year Phoenix will be continuing working with Gateways in a fellowship position, which will include contributing design and planning work to the StopSQZine Project. Phoenix is interested in creative community organizing and hopes to continue this work after graduating. She is also a big film and documentary fan, and recommends checking out Trial 4 on Netflix.

Karina Diaz Alvarez

Karina is a second year psychology and legal studies double major, with a minor in global information and social enterprise studies. Within Gateways, they have been working on the design of the Gateways website as an Everett student. They will continue their involvement in Gateways as an Everett fellow in maintaining the website and creating social media content. As someone who is very passionate about social justice, and disagrees significantly with the criminal legal system, working within Gateways has allowed them to gain experience in the social justice field and work with others who have aligning values. Gateways is only the beginning, and they plan to continue working in the area of social justice after graduating. They also never get tired of reading the novel Stolen by Lucy Christopher.

E Zawicki

E is a third year psychology and sociology major with a concentration in global information and social enterprise studies. In the past year, they have worked as a project guide with the student team and will continue to support the Gateways team during this upcoming year. After graduation, E hopes to do advocacy and social justice work. E appreciates the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates.