Vonya Quarles - Board Member at Large

Vonya holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and a Juris Doctorate. She practices law in the areas of criminal defense, civil rights, and criminal justice policy work.  Vonya is one of the founding members of the Riverside All of Us or NONE Chapter. She is system-impacted herself and works to address the complexities of life after a criminal conviction including the collateral consequences as they relate to family reunification, housing, employment, licensing, and other intersections.

Vonya was a 2011 Women Organizing for Justice Fellow, 2012/13 Women’s Policy Institute Fellow,  2013 Eleanor Jean Greer Leadership Academy Fellow, 2015 W. K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) Racial Equity and Healing Fellow and a current Rosenberg Leading Edge Fellow working on Family Reunification.  Vonya has fused these developmental opportunities with her own lived experiences to become a powerful and competent systems change agent that works within ever-widening circles.