Angie Junck (she/her)

Board Member

Angie is the inaugural director of the Human Rights program at the Heising-Simons Foundation and Action Fund, overseeing programmatic strategy and grantmaking to challenge mass criminalization of Black, indigenous, and people of color in the criminal legal and immigration enforcement systems by building their power and advancing reimagined approaches to justice and safety. Previously, Angie was a national movement lawyer and advocate working at the intersection of the criminal legal, youth justice, and immigration systems, serving as the director of Immigrant Defense Programs and Supervising Attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center for over 13 years. In that role, she incubated and led multi-issue collaboratives and campaigns engaging a variety of partners, which resulted in innovative state and local models and policies to address the intersection of criminalization, incarceration, and deportation.

Angie currently serves as the chair of the board of Al Otro Lado and on the boards of WDN Action, The Texas Future Project, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and the U.S. program of Human Rights Watch. Angie earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Law San Francisco and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.