Bridget Cervelli (she/her)

Political Organizing Committee

Bridget is currently a public policy grad student at UC Berkeley. After years spent in and out of jail and the streets battling addiction and all the violence that comes with that all too common Bay Area story, she found healing and community with other formerly incarcerated students in higher education. She pursues public policy because she understands that the transformative solutions needed to dismantle the carceral system are found in the lived expertise of impacted people. She has worked as an organizer, trainer and coach with formerly and currently incarcerated people. She has also worked as a researcher, advocate and contributor on decarceral and housing policy at the local and state level. She is dedicated in life and career to dismantling the policies and institutions that criminalize and degrade our communities and make all of us less safe.