MEET OUR TEAM
Jorge Castillo
Organizing & Training Director
As the Organizing and Training Director of the Safe Return Project, Jorge will guide policy efforts and lead staff development, including training and supervision. He will work to develop and implement campaigns that achieve tangible results for our communities. Jorge will support outreach to local organizing committees, conduct research, strategic planning, and lead community action meetings at the local and county-wide levels.
Carlos Fernandez
Community Organizer
Carlos Fernandez is a Jr. Organizer and Credible Messenger mentor with the Safe Return Project. Carlos was raised in Richmond, spent most of his teenage life in juvenile hall, and now advocates for the decarceration and healing of young people impacted by the criminal legal system.
Katrina Swenson
Communications Manager
Katrina Swenson brings over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector to the Safe Return Project, where she leads strategic communications, social media outreach, and website development. Her background as a Project and Communications Coordinator reflects her strengths in digital marketing, design, analytics, and program coordination. Katrina is deeply committed to advocacy and harnessing digital tools to drive meaningful social change.
Precious Marshall
Program Coordinator
As a Program Coordinator, Precious fulfills an essential support role to the Program Manager. When she’s not assisting with planning and coordinating our programs and activities, she’s supporting organizing staff with assignments, schedules, marketing and communications needs, organizing, coordinating, and facilitating community outreach.
Chala Bonner
Program Manager
Chala started her journey with the Safe Return Project as a grassroots organizer in 2018, focusing on advocating for ending mass incarceration and racial disparities in the criminal legal system. Today, she is the Program Manager moving the organization's programs forward.
Marvin Galdamez
Program Coordinator, Navigator
Marvin Galdamez is a Program Coordinator and Navigator with the Safe Return Project in Richmond, California. He supports justice-impacted individuals by coordinating programs, facilitating workshops, conducting outreach, and helping participants navigate reentry services and resources.
Pedro Bernal
Credible Messenger, Navigator, Organizer
Pedro works closely with youth, mentoring, developing, and building relationships through one-to-one interactions. He is involved in our weekly Young Latinx Men's Support Group Program, joins SRP team members at outreach events, and assists participants in navigating programs, where each day, he takes away something new and gains a new perspective by hearing and learning how everything, large or small, impacts people's lives. In the future, Pedro hopes to continue to help at-risk youths and help eliminate police brutality and profiling in his community.