Kendra Cochran is the Owner of Fielding your Dream Outreach and founder of Redemptive Measures Corp. "Reaching the world one community at a time" is the cornerstone of her work as a Political Strategist and Effective Outreach Coach. Kendra is a West Philadelphia native with Trinidadian roots. Her journey in advocacy and activism began in high school when she fought against the Philadelphia school district at age 17. Kendra began her career on political campaigns working her way up to Field Director and later Campaign Manager. She then pivoted to serve in the nonprofit sector as Civic Engagement and Political Director for POWER Interfaith and served on the Faith in Action Fund board. Kendra is also an Artist at her core, she enjoys photography, writing poetry, and producing music in her spare time.

Jessica Lopez is the mother of four and an Afro-Latino abolitionist, poet, and organizer based in Lancaster, PA. As Lead Advocate at the Lancaster Bail Fund, she fights to end cash bail and uplift impacted families. A survivor of incarceration and state violence, Jessica uses her voice to challenge systems and inspire healing.

Jessica also serves as an Assistant Editor at Let’s Get Free’s Daughters Magazine. She brings lived experience, research, and frontline organizing to her work addressing systemic injustice in Pennsylvania’s legal system. Her efforts include community education, bail reform, policy advocacy, and resource support for criminalized individuals.

Lancaster Bail Fund    

Daughters Magazine

Peter Jaros is Associate Professor of English. He teaches on early and antebellum American literature and culture, transatlantic literature, and law and literature. His book, The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. His work has appeared in journals including ALH, J19, Early American Literature, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, as well as edited collections on law and literature. He's thrilled to be one of the faculty co-leaders of Reckoning with Lancaster for 2025-26.

Cristina is an assistant professor in American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. Her current book project, On Border Time: Chrononationaism at the Border Industrial Complex considers violence against migrants in the US.