Pat Clark, Program Officer for Justice with Dignity Program and Lifting the Voices of Resistance to War Program

As Program Officer for the Justice with Dignity Program, Pat works works closely with Lisa Castellanos to manage all aspects of the grantmaking process.

As Program Officer for the Lifting Voices of Resistance Program, Pat works with grantee organizations in their efforts to lift the voices of those whose lives are directly affected by the “war on terror.”  Pat has primary responsibility for managing all aspects of the grantmaking process, including evaluating proposals; making funding recommendations to the Board of Directors, maintaining relationships with grantees; and supporting grantee capacity building.

From 2007-2009, Pat served as Director of the Newark-based Criminal Justice Program of the American Friends Service Committee’s New York Metropolitan Regional Office where she worked on reentry issues, monitoring the issues in prisons across the country and the development of the concept of a center for healing and transformative justice.

Previously she worked as the Executive Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an interfaith, international organization with programs in racial and economic justice, demilitarization, nuclear disarmament, and peaceful resolution of conflicts.

Prior to FOR, Pat served as the AFSC’s National Criminal Justice Representative based in Philadelphia. Her work focused on the death penalty, prison control units, hate violence and restorative justice, juvenile justice, prison reform and alternatives to incarceration. She was a moving force behind the creation and development of the Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project and worked intently with Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation.

Additional work includes serving as the Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus of California, Director of the Klanwatch Project with the Southern Poverty Law Center and as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity International in Zaire, Africa.

Pat’s current community involvement includes service on the boards of directors of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation (as Chair), and the Board of Advisors of Habitat for Humanity International.

A graduate of Smith College she is a well known speaker and spokesperson on matters of criminal and social justice.