Jill Garvey

Chief of Staff

Jill has devoted much of her career to responding to attacks on civil rights and other serious threats to disenfranchised American communities. Much of her expertise was developed working with Center for New Community, where she served as the Center’s Associate Director and then the Executive Director until 2015. In 2017, Jill joined Protect RP - a community defense network in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood - and with fellow community leaders created a rapid response and community alert system that allows members to rapidly respond to ICE raids and to racist and xenophobic harassment or violence. From 2017 to 2018, this leadership team trained over 150 residents in non-violent direct action and law enforcement documentation techniques, and helped to build a 500-member community network. Jill joined WSC in 2018 as a consultant on the Momentum Project.