Margaret is a North Carolina native and she resides in Wilmington with her small family. At the magical age of 33, Margaret graduated from Shaw University, where she double majored in Sociology and Psychology. A drug war survivor, Margaret's lived experiences, personal and familial, embolden her to advocate compassionately for people who are marginalized for their drug use and justice involvement. In her work, Margaret demonstrates a willingness to critically explore current practices through the lens of racial and health equity, and through strategic and thoughtful collaborations, working to develop promising strategies to promote health and well-being in racially minoritized and other historically marginalized communities. 

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.

Zaire is one of the co-coordinators for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded community safety project. She graduated with BAs in psychology and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021. Her research interests revolve around the impact of the criminal legal system on adolescents and families, with a particular interest in mental health and racial disparities.

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.