Meet the Team

  • is a passionate earth lover who holds a deep belief in the potential for a world that centers community care over policing. She is honored to support HEART in her role as Outreach Manager and part-time HEART Line responder. It is refreshing to be in a work environment that embraces and embodies transformative justice, allowing her to live her values daily.

    When not at work, Ishraq enjoys being by the ocean, going on walks in nature, and trying out new coffee shops!

  • is a white, queer, proudly Mad psychiatric survivor committed to organizing against carceral systems. Informed by their experience surviving these systems, S works to empower others in their journeys of self-determination.

    Outside of HEART, they enjoy gardening, authoring zines, and spending time in community

  • is honored to be part of the team implementing HEART. Since they were taught these values as a young Xicanx person, Corinne has valued community, people power, and the importance of centering marginalized community members. Corinne brings non-profit leadership, social innovation, and administrative experience to their role.

    Corinne enjoys being in nature and digging in the dirt in their community garden plot.

  • is a HEART responder who is skilled in listening and being present in the moment with community members. Self-determination has been a useful tool on Pea’s journey in abolition and fighting recidivism and is an important value at HEART.Being with HEART for the last two years has been an eye-opening experience and highlights the strength and importance of community.

    Pea is a person who has a wide variety of interests including but not limited to being in nature, listening and creating music, video gaming, and exercise.

  • Born and raised in Cambridge, Daria is deeply committed to creating and building strong, inclusive, and justice-driven communities. She is about growing and the healing of her village. With over 15 years of experience in operations, event planning, and people-centered leadership, she has nurtured spaces where people feel seen, valued, and empowered. Whether organizing transformative events, mentoring teams, or advocating for equity, they bring heart, creativity, and a deep love for connection to everything they do. Grounded in a passion for community well-being, she is always looking for ways to uplift and support those around them.


  • joined HEART as a responder, following a lifetime career in early childhood education with a focus on an anti-bias anti-racist curriculum. Throughout these years, she enjoyed partnering with our diverse families and communities. Being a child of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, she saw first-hand how the Global Majority, Black, and Indigenous people were—and still are—negatively impacted by systems that claim to help them. As she became active in justice work, Bárbara also developed peer counseling skills through the lens of liberation. With HEART, she hopes to continue learning from our community members and offer support when requested. She is a Nationally Registered EMT and a certified medical interpreter (Spanish/English). Bárbara is ready to share these skill sets to navigate and take down barriers in our communities.