As the first woman elected Berkshire District Attorney, DA Harrington took office in 2019 and delivers a reform agenda of vigorously prosecuting dangerous offenders while improving public safety through prevention and community engagement. Andrea has practiced in the area of criminal law for over fifteen years. She graduated from the University of Washington and earned a Juris Doctor from American University Washington College of Law in 2003. Those studies inspired Andrea’s work representing convicted death row inmates in their post-conviction appeals in south Florida. Andrea returned to raise her family in Berkshire County, where she grew up and represented defendants in appellate and trial matters, family law, and plaintiff-side employment litigation.

Jay Blitzman retired as the First Justice of the Middlesex Division of the Massachusetts Juvenile Court on November 28, 2019. He now consults on juvenile and criminal justice issues, mentors new attorneys, and is serving as the interim Executive Director of Massachusetts Advocates for Children. Prior to his judicial appointment he was a founder and the first director of the Roxbury Youth Advocacy Project, a community based, interdisciplinary public defender’s office which became the template for the creation of the statewide Youth Advocacy Division. He was a member of the ABA Youth At Risk Commission, the Massachusetts Bar Association Juvenile and Child Welfare Section, the Boston Bar Association Deconstructing the Cradle-to-Prison Steering Committee, and chaired the Massachusetts Juvenile Court Best Dispositional and Sentencing Practices Committee. He still serves on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Eyewitness Identification. Jay teaches juvenile law at Northeastern University School of Law, a cradle to prison pipeline course at Boston College, and trial advocacy at Harvard Law School.

Lieutenant Sarko Gergerian began his career in 2010 as a patrol officer with Winthrop Police Department. In 2016, he received the
Outstanding Service and Contribution award; in 2019, Lieutenant Gergerian was awarded the Department of Mental Health & Law Enforcement Award. Lt. Gergerian is a founding member of the Community and Law Enforcement Assisted Recovery Program (CLEAR). CLEAR is a
network of community partners, the Winthrop Police Department, and the Winthrop Health Department that ensures individuals seeking support for substance use disorders or mental health are connected to community-based service providers. Lieutenant Sarko Gergerian serves as a police peer support officer, community outreach officer, and health & fitness officer. In this role he manages a shift of officers, reviews policies and procedures related to mental health, and supports a multidisciplinary mental health response team.

Attorney Goncalves is the Deputy Chief Counsel of the Youth Advocacy Division (YAD), the juvenile defender branch of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the state public defender’s office. Prior to becoming Director, Duci was the Attorney in Charge of the YAD Quincy/Brockton Office for over ten years where she supervised attorneys and social workers while maintaining her own caseload. Duci started her career as a public defender with the YAD Roxbury Office in 2005 where she represented juveniles in delinquency and youthful offender matters in the Dorchester, West Roxbury, and Boston Juvenile Courts. From 2010-2011, while on a leave of absence from YAD, Duci worked as a staff attorney at Suffolk University School of Law’s Juvenile Justice Center supervising law students representing juveniles in the Boston Juvenile Court and assisting in the teaching of the Juvenile Defender Clinical Class.

Executive Director Francisco “Tito” SantosSilva provides the leadership for the execution and impact of program operations and partnerships. He has worked for more than a decade supporting young people from underserved communities to help them reach their greatest potential. Prior to Boston Uncornered, SantosSilva was Director of Engagement for UTEC, where he was responsible for developing training and helping front line staff. He has also worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Youth Services where he supported incarcerated young adults. SantosSilva earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and a Master of Arts in Community Social Psychology, from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Raised in Brockton, Massachusetts, his educational and professional journey was almost derailed by street violence that took the life of a close friend, but with the right support he was able to get back on track.