Betsey Chace

Betsey Chace joined the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) in 2023, as Reentry Coordinator, EPI's first full-time staff person. In this role, she provided reentry support to EPI students and alumni upon their release from prison, and administrative support to EPI faculty leadership. In 2024, she became EPI Program Manager and EPI was able to hire a second full-time staff person in the Coordinator role. 

Prior to joining EPI, Betsey worked for decades in social justice and social service organizations, both in program roles and operations (grants and finance), from the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti to the Brigham & Women's Hospital Division of Global Health Equity to the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants. Her activism has included implementing a ballot initiative campaign to restore the right to vote to incarcerated people, managing an electoral campaign for State Representative, and organizing with the #NoNewWomensPrison campaign of Building Up People Not Prisons, under the leadership of Families for Justice as Healing. Betsey has a Bachelors degree in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from MIT. She speaks English and Portuguese, and could once get by in French, Mandarin Chinese, and Haitian Kreyol.