2024 ABMoC Data Fellowship

Johnsen Del Rosario (he/him) is a Senior Program Manager at the Youth Leadership Institute. With a background in journalism and communications, Johnsen brings a unique perspective to his role, overseeing youth programming focused on journalism, storytelling, and advocacy. He has a deep commitment to youth leadership and development, narrative change, and community health.

Alexis is a proud first-generation Latina from San Diego, California and Director at the Young Women’s Freedom Center in Santa Clara County. With passion and experience in YPAR Alexis dedicates her work to centering systems-impacted girls, women, and gender-expansive youth in all stages of the research process. Through story-telling and siblinghood she is committed to youth leadership and activism as a source of power to transform policies, practices, and systems that have historically marginalized the voices of those most-impacted.  

Steven holds the esteemed position of Senior Community Organizer at Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE) in the city of San Bernardino, California. Rooted in faith and driven by a divine calling, he engages with congregations and community members alike, building meaningful relationships to shape COPE’s policy agenda around the real needs of the Black communities they serve. He believes that community organizing is about creating radical spaces for people to BElong ultimately so that they can BEcome. 

Manuel is a first-generation immigrant, born and raised in the Tijuana/San Diego border region. As a community organizer with Mid-City CAN his focus is Juvenile Justice. Mid-City CAN are currently focusing on ensuring that the Initiative to End Girls Incarceration in San Diego is inclusive of community voices and we are given decision making power to ensure solutions are rooted in community.

Alejandro grew up in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles and fell in love with his community while he was miles away studying Black Studies at Northwestern University, located in a north suburb of Chicago. He is a consultant with Brothers, Sons, Selves and a training coordinator with Urban Peace Institute where he is working with community and systems to reduce LA County’s dependence on carceral practices and institutions. Alejandro works to anchor his work in the ethics of abolition and decolonization.

Sam uses he/him pronouns and is a Youth Organizer and Community Outreach Specialist for Youth Alliance from Morgan Hill, CA. He is passionate about Healing Justice and dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and he looks forward to learning more about how data/research can create systemic change that will benefit marginalized communities.