Our Team

Amanda Hollowell

Board Member

Amanda graduated from the University of California at Berkeley where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Communication. She is originally from Palm Springs, California and has made Savannah, Georgia her home for the past twelve years. Currently, Amanda is the Director of Strategic Campaigns for Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, formerly she has been State Director of 9to5 Georgia, Education Specialist for LifeLink of Georgia, and a founding member of the Political Rascals (PAC) out of Savannah, Georgia. Being a servant to her community is her passion her volunteer efforts include holding roles as the co-coordinator of the Savannah Black Heritage Festival Committee, Member of the Savannah (GA) Chapter of The Links Incorporated, Board member of Georgia Shift, Graduate of the Georgia WIN List Leadership Academy 2015, Social Media Manager for Women Must Vote a grassroots organization in Savannah, Georgia, volunteer for Planned Parenthood Southeast, and co-organizer for Women’s March Savannah. Formerly, Amanda served on the Board of Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation and Girls on the Run of Coastal Georgia. To date, her greatest accomplishment is being the mother of her son, Joah Cash.

Bentley Hudgins

Board Member

Bentley is a passionate queer organizer from Macon, Georgia working to advance sound policy and mobilize Georgia’s communities. Currently, they are working as the Political Strategist with the New Georgia Project Action Fund and Strategic Communications Consultant with the Georgia AFL-CIO.  Outside of working hours, you can find them in East Atlanta supporting local artists or making obscure recipes from the Internet.

Cass Odum

Board Vice Chair

Darby Cox

Board Chair

Fallon McClure

Board Member, Director of Community Outreach

Fallon McClure is an attorney the Co-Founder of Cultural Equity Consulting. A consulting firm that specializes in helping people understand where their biases come from, how to address privilege, and how to connect empathetically with others.

Prior to the launch of Cultural Equity Consulting, Fallon served as the Senior & Georgia State Director for Spread the Vote/Project ID. As State Director, Fallon managed all Georgia state operations, recruited and trained volunteers, managed grants and fundraising and more. Building the Georgia operations from scratch, Fallon oversaw the creation of 10 chapters across the state of Georgia, recruitment of over 75 volunteers, and the procurement of over 400 IDs. Additionally, she has been a guest speaker and panelist for various voting rights panels, presentations and events at Georgia State University, Emory University, & Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School.

Before Spread The Vote, Fallon was the Policy Advocate at the ACLU of Georgia. While at the ACLU, Fallon focused her organizing and community work around voting rights and criminal justice reform. Given her passion and commitment to helping others and leveling the field of play she volunteers with the Georgia Justice Project to help people receive a second chance through criminal record expungement and Atlanta Volunteers Lawyers Foundation where she helps low income clients in civil matters related to landlord tenant matters. Fallon also is volunteer advocate with the Cobb County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program where she advocates for the needs and interests of children that have been neglected and/or abused.

Fallon is a Georgia native from Powder Springs. She received a Bachelor’s of Arts in History from Georgia State University and a Juris Doctorate from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. In addition to her policy and advocacy work Fallon practices criminal defense law.

James Bernard Pratt, Jr.

Board Member

James Pratt, Jr. is a son of Albany, Ga. After graduating from Morehouse College with a BA in Psychology where he worked as a research assistant for Morehouse’s Black Male Initiative, he went on to attend University of California, Irvine where he obtained his master’s in Social Ecology and is currently a PhD Candidate in Criminology, Law and Society there. James’s research examines the ways communities understand and reckon with violence historically and today, particularly in the Southern Black Belt Region. He has also published work on corporal punishment in schools and legal education and has served as a program coordinator and chair of several organizations at UCLA, UCI, and Morehouse. James serves on the faculty at Albany State University in the department of Criminal Justice and has continued to advocate for local changes through presentations to the city commission, by developing a research plan for Albany Mayor’s Safe City Coalition, and creating a reorganization plan for Albany’s Civilian Gang Taskforce all culminating in a run for mayor of Albany. James enjoys playing tennis, being a percussionist, and singing to just about any music.

Maxwell Ruppersburg, MPA, PMP

Executive Director

Maxwell Ruppersburg is a Georgia native with a passion for human centered design, evidence based policy, and strategic problem solving. He earned his Masters of Public Administration from Syracuse University after graduating from Emory University and working at The Carter Center.

He has since been working in both local and state government and is a certified Project Management Professional. He previously built and managed a digital startup for two years and still has a passion for exploring new ideas. During the day he serves as the Director for the Office of Supportive Housing for the state’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.

He believes transforming the criminal legal system in every community in Georgia is possible and necessary. Maxwell lives and works in Atlanta with his wife Camila and their beagle, Hunter.

Carl V. Lewis

In Memoriam

Carl V. Lewis was a founding member of Reform Georgia and served as a board member until his passing in October 2019.