Department: Network Advancement

Senger Joseph joined ACS in October 2024 and serves as the Chapter Associate.

She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a major in Public Administration and a minor in Emergency Management. She also received her Associates of Arts from Miami Dade College.

She worked as a project intern with Black in Repro, a reproductive freedom group that's part of the Floridians for Reproductive Freedom coalition, made up of Black healthcare experts and organizers focused on advocacy and education around the Yes on 4 campaign. Before that, she interned at Orange County Water Utilities, helping out with creating and updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and supporting data management tasks.

In her free time, Senger loves listening to music, hanging out with her friends and family, and reading.

Jordan Guillen (he/him) joined ACS in June 2022 and serves as the Assistant Director of Chapters. In this capacity, he supports the existing ACS lawyer and student chapters, cultivates opportunities to expand our network, and builds sustainable relationships to shape the legal debate.

From 2022 to 2024, Jordan served as the Chapter Associate at ACS. During this time, he organized and managed over 100 lawyer chapter events, assisted in the planning and execution of the 2023 and 2024 National Conventions and the 2023 and 2024 Student Conventions, and helped launch ACS’s first pilot undergraduate chapter at Princeton University. Through his strong support of the chapters across the U.S., Jordan was promoted to Assistant Director- the first individual without a law degree to hold this role.

Prior to joining ACS, he was a research intern at the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a renowned non-profit organization focused on providing in-depth analysis and information about capital punishment to the media and the public. At DPIC, Jordan conducted extensive research for DPIC’s most extensive database of over 9,000 men and women sentenced to death in the U.S. since 1972. Additionally, he played a key role in refining DPIC's recruitment databases and tracking the organization's media influence.

Driven by a passion for learning, Jordan pursued his education ambitiously. While in high school, he earned his Associates Degree in Political Science. He furthered his academic journey by obtaining a B.A. in Political Science - Public Service and Sociology, with an emphasis in Law & Society, a year early, from the University of California, Davis and plans to apply to law school in the near future. Jordan is currently based in Los Angeles. In his free time, he enjoys reading, cooking, and spending time with his Labradoodle, Elio.

Jampa Lhasawa (he/him) joined ACS in September 2021 and served as the Chapters Associate. In this capacity, he worked with the Chapters team to support the work of our ACS Chapters, including assisting with programming, network building, and annual events.

Prior to joining ACS, Lhasawa served as the Outreach Coordinator for Lines for Life, a 24-hour crisis intervention and prevention service in Portland, Oregon. In this position, Lhasawa organized all classroom education, conferences, panels, and tabling events, and created the program’s DEI mission statement, action plan, and three-year strategy.

Lhasawa earned his B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., where he enjoys backpacking, playing chess, and spending time with his dog, Pema.

Kennedy Freeman joined ACS in May 2019 and currently serves as the Assistant Director of Network Advancement. She provides support to the Department of Network Advancement and assists with the coordination of substantive initiatives.

Prior to joining ACS, Freeman interned at the Library of Congress with the Binding and Collections Care division. After graduating, Freeman worked for Lunenburg County Public Schools and later became an HR assistant at Greystones Consulting Group.

Freeman attended the College of William and Mary where she found a passion for criminal justice while taking many classes about constitutional law. She received B.A. degrees in Government and Psychology. In her free time, she enjoys live music, abstract painting, and relaxing walks through nature.

Ashley Erickson joined the American Constitution Society in March 2017 and serves as Senior Director of Network Advancement. She manages ACS pro bono and volunteer projects.

Erickson currently serves as a board member on the Washington Council of Lawyers, D.C.’s public-interest bar association, and is a member of the Virginia Bar.

Before joining ACS, Erickson was a magistrate in the Virginia State Judiciary’s 31st District. Prior to her work as a magistrate, she worked in the Office of General Counsel at George Mason University and the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education.

Erickson received her J.D. from the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School and her B.A. in political science from Brigham Young University. While in law school, she served for two years as the president of BYU’s ACS student chapter and is an ACS Next Generation Leader.

Peggy Li joined ACS in October 2015 and currently serves as the Senior Director of Chapters. In this capacity, she assists in managing the existing network of ACS chapters, facilitating the programming of chapters, working with members to realize their potential for creating a constructive dialogue for change, cultivating and supporting our next generation of progressive leaders, building connections and strengthening our progressive network, promoting diversity and inclusion throughout our network, seeking opportunities to found new ACS chapters, building and maintaining relationships with advisors, and integrating chapter activities and chapter members into ACS’s substantive initiatives and network of members.

Before joining ACS, Li served as a Staff Attorney at Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) working primarily with rural seniors on elder, housing, and public benefits law. Li also served as a coordinator for LSNC’s Race Equity Project conducting research, facilitating monthly calls, spearheading office-wide projects, and providing trainings on framing, implicit bias, and social cognition. She has also been published in the Washington Monthly, the ACS Blog, the Akron Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice.

Li currently serves as the Vice President for Programs and Operations for the National Filipino American Lawyers Association (she also co-chairs NFALA’s Advocacy Committee and serves on its Judicial and Executive Appointments and Nominations Committee). She is also a Steering Committee Member for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association's Civil Rights Committee, a Steering Committee Member for the Texas Filipino American Bar, and a Board of Directors Member for the Asian American Bar Association of Houston.

Li earned her B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of California, Los Angeles and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is a member of the California State Bar (inactive) and the Texas State Bar. At Berkeley Law, Li was a William K. Coblentz Civil Rights Endowment Student Research Fellow at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, a Managing Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and the President of the Berkeley Law ACS Student Chapter. She is an ACS Next Generation Leader.

Li lives in Houston with her husband.