Starcia Ague

Starcia Ague is helping make the world a better place with her activism and art. She is a true visionary who has made a career of lifting up others. The movement she started resulted in Washington State completely rethinking it's approach to Juvenile Justice.

Moreover, through her efforts, formerly incarcerated people around the nation have found their voices and influenced policymakers to make transformative changes to the criminal justice system. Starcia can always be counted on to be authentic and empower other individuals and organizations to achieve their full potential

My ten years of local, state and federal government experience in the legislative and public agency arenas reflect my genuine, deeply-held interest in social justice work and effective advocacy for social justice promoting causes. Some of this work started when I was still in undergraduate study at Washington State University, and continued as I transitioned from college into the world of work, initially at the University of Washington and then the State of Washington. I have greatly enjoyed consulting with universities and colleges, with non-profit organizations and pro-bono programs in business, and with commercial enterprises which are developing and implementing effective media, marketing, and lobbying strategies.

My work with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and later the Soros Foundation added importantly to my range of experience. This prior work has provided me with a rich network of contacts in a number of states and in some agencies in Washington D.C., with particular broad-ranging experience in my own home state of Washington.

This decade of work in a number of settings has involved a good amount of inter-organizational networking and program building, on both the creation and sustaining ends of networks formed for public interest collective action. My experience includes working both behind the scenes in the staff work setting, and engagement in open advocacy in legislative testimony and public media serving as the public voice of an organization or network.

BA Criminal Justice, WSU