2008 Staff
Executive Director : Lael Elizabeth
Hiam Chester is the third Executive
Director of CfJJ, following the footsteps of Rebecca
Young and Jack Gately. She began her position
in March 2001, after having served on Citizens
for Juvenile Justice's Board of Directors for
approximately five years. Ms. Chester is a graduate
of Barnard College and Harvard Law School . Her
prior work experience includes both litigating
and researching juvenile justice, criminal justice
and civil rights issues. She has held position
as the Albert Martin Sacks Clinical Fellow at
the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law
School and an Assistant Attorney General in the
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Division of the Massachusetts
Office of the Attorney General. She was honored
to receive the Jay D. Blitzman Youth Advocacy
Award in May 2004 for her ãextraordinary
commitment to protecting the rights of juveniles.ä
She currently serves as a member of the Governor's
Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee, serves on
the JJAC's Executive Committee and its Alternatives
to Detention Subcommittee, and chairs its Disproportionate
Minority Contact Subcommittee.
Director of Operations : Gale Munson joined Citizens for Juvenile Justice in January 2004. A native of Utica , New York , Gale graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in English literature in 1968 and from Harvard Law School in 1972. After clerking for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1973, she joined the Boston firm of Palmer & Dodge as an associate and became a partner in 1979, focusing her practice primarily on commercial real estate transactions. In 1985 she resigned from the firm and devoted the next ten years to family and volunteer projects. From 1996 through April, 2003, she worked for the Henry P. Kendall Foundation in Boston as grants administrator and program associate. Since 2004, in addition to working at Citizens for Juvenile Justice, she has worked for The Farm School, an educational farm in Central Massachusetts whose mission is to connect children to the land.
Administrative Assistant
: Paige Wallace graduated from Amherst College
in 2005 with degrees in Psychology and Spanish.
Upon graduation, Paige joined Teach for America
and taught fourth grade in New York City for two
years. She is currently completing her Master
in Public Policy degree at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government.
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