Meet our board
This diverse and committed group of scholars, advocates, union and government leaders serve PIC and our mission with dedication and distinction. Charged with overseeing the governance and growth of PIC, each member of our board plays an integral role in helping us execute our work with intention. We are grateful for their contributions to our organization and celebrate their work as advocates for immigrant rights in Pennsylvania.
Director
Olyvia Armstrong
Olyvia Armstrong is the Voting Access Campaign Manager at Pennsylvania Voice. Olyvia works with organizations across Pennsylvania to modernize elections and make voting easy to access and convenient for all voters across the commonwealth. Before joining Pennsylvania Voice, Olyvia has worked on a number of campaigns, including Elizabeth Warren's Presidential Campaign in Pennsylvania. Olyvia holds a B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College in Sociology and Public Policy. Olyvia is the daughter of a Dominican immigrant, and believes in working to ensure that no one is left out of any process and is passionate about language access.
Director
Carly Bruski
Carly M. Bruski is a Pennsylvania-based licensed social worker with over 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector. Carly has spent the majority of her career working with survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, underserved older adults, and immigrants and refugees. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Women’s Studies from The Pennsylvania State University and received her Master’s degree in social work in 2014 from Temple University.
Director
Erin Casey
With 20 years of leadership experience in advocacy and electoral politics, Erin Casey has spearheaded initiatives across dozens of states and on a national level. As the founding Executive Director of Pennsylvania Voice, she developed and implemented statewide strategies for civic engagement and powerbuilding that focused on building a multi-racial democracy. She has also served on the boards of State Voices and Conservation PA, offering leadership and guidance on movement-building efforts.
Prior to Pennsylvania Voice, she held senior roles at various progressive organizations, where she built expertise in financial and organizational development, staff management, strategic planning, and program design.
Director
ISABEL CASTILLO
Isabel Castillo is an activist, organizer, and former “DACAmented” immigrant from Mexico. With the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, Isabel helped organize sit-ins, rallies, and actions to try and get the DREAM act passed and change the living conditions of undocumented immigrants in the US.
Residing now in Lancaster, Isabel uses her dedication to justice to support the mission of eliminating racism and empowering women as the Director of the Center for Racial and Gender Equity at YWCA Lancaster. After 30 years of living in the U.S., Isabel continues to work for a world where communities are empowered to make decisions in society and to speak for themselves. She believes in restorative justice embedded in anti-oppression and brings that practice to her work every day.
Isabel holds a Bachelor's of Social Work and Master's of Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, and also received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of San Francisco for her unwavering organizing and advocacy. When she’s not building power with the community, Isabel is spending time with her family and playing soccer.
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Director
Tiffany Chang
Tiffany W. Chang (she/her/ella) is a Philadelphia (Lenape land)-based Taiwanese-American organizer, musician, writer, and composer originally hailing from the East Bay(Ohlone land), California. Currently, she serves as Campaign Strategist for Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF). Previously, she worked as Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Philadelphia Office of Immigrant Affairs where she led community engagement and cultural programming, managing the Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Immigrant Affairs and the Mayor's Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs. Prior to that, as Director of Community Engagement at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Tiffany led the organization's community outreach, coalition-building, and field mobilization work nationwide, liaising with over 250 local community groups in 38 states. Tiffany served as the lead organizer for the Unity March, the first Asian American-led, BIPOC March on the National Mall in DC. Tiffany was also Deputy GOTV Director for the 2020 Michigan Coordinated Campaign to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Prior to this, she was Associate Director of Allied Groups for the 2020 Democratic National Convention, leading outreach to AAPI, Arab, Jewish, and Muslim organizations; veterans & military families; the disability community; and gun violence prevention groups. Before working on the national level, Tiffany was Advocacy and Policy Manager at the Asian American Federation in New York City. She holds an MPA from Columbia University School of International Affairs (SIPA), and a Bachelor of Music from NYU. She has lived, worked, and performed in North Africa/Middle East and East Asia.
Director
Dong Yoon Kim
Dong Yoon Kim is a current member of the Peaceful Advisory Unification Committee-Philadelphia Chapter. Previously he was on the board of APIA PA and a founding member. His previous experience in PA has been in government, politics, policy, civic engagement, advocacy and direct services within the Korean, AAPI and immigrant communities. Before coming to PA, Dong Yoon worked in DC, Virginia and Maryland with the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium working on immigrant rights and campaigns. Dong Yoon is a proud alumni of the University of Georgia, having grown up in the state and is a proud immigrant of Korea.
Director
Diana Robinson
Before joining Make the Road Pennsylvania, Diana was the Union Semester Program Coordinator at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Formerly she was the Leadership Development Coordinator at Food Chain Workers Alliance, a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. Prior to that, she was an Organizer and Food Policy Coordinator at the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 on Long Island, New York. She is a labor educator and trainer teaching and facilitating courses at SUNY Empire State College on Race, Class, Gender, and Diversity in the Workplace. She is the daughter of immigrants from the Caribbean. Diana graduated from Queens College with a BA in Political Science and completed a master’s in labor studies from CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. In 2020, Diana was recognized by NY City & State as a Rising Leader in Labor and in the 2020 Salute to Labor Awards by Schneps Media.
Director
Tonya wenger
Tonya Wenger currently works at Reading Area Community College in Reading, PA, primarily as an English for Academic Purposes adjunct instructor for bilingual and ESOL students, and she holds an M.S. in Education (TESOL) from Temple University. Tonya is a member of Berks Stands Up and previously served on the leadership team of the Shut Down Berks Coalition, a group of organizations (including PIC) and individuals who fought to successfully close the immigrant detention center in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
A Unitarian Universalist, Tonya has also sat on church leadership teams. She is dedicated to the movement for immigrant rights because, after growing up/living in Lancaster County, Philadelphia, and now Berks County, she has learned and strongly believes that the immigrant experience is the heart of Pennsylvania’s identity and well-being.