Emily Fish

Emily Fish (she/her/hers) is a criminal justice reform advocate and a direct-service provider for the highest risk youth in Greater Boston’s most marginalized communities. Currently, she is an Assistant Director at Roca Inc., an organization focused on disrupting cycles of incarceration and poverty.

Emily helped open and now runs Roca’s Lynn site, which serves the North Shore, where she oversees all youth work, stage-based programming, subsidized employment, and behavioral health services there. In 2018, she held Massachusetts’ first restorative justice process inside a jail between incarcerated people and correctional officers. 

Emily has also worked for organizations focused on housing insecurity, immigrant rights, homeless youth, and behavioral health as well as working as a cook and carpenter where she taught pre-vocational skills to high-risk youth in both fields. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Wesleyan University and graduated from the Tisch College of Civic Life’s Non-Profit Management and Leadership Program at Tufts University. Emily also serves on the Board of the ACLU of Massachusetts.