Staff Team
Noah Bragg is a Co-Executive Director and a Lead Project Facilitator at Maine Inside Out. He joined MIO as a volunteer in 2016, served as an Americorps VISTA member, and joined the staff team in 2019. He holds a B.A. in English & Theater and Latin American Studies from Bowdoin College and is a proud alumni of the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. He is a practitioner of nonviolent communication, theater of the oppressed, popular education and ensemble creation.
Molly Gallagher Burk is the Philanthropy Lead at Maine Inside Out. She leads our collective efforts to engage donors, foundations, and businesses in supporting the organization’s mission in order to sustain and grow our impact.
Molly is passionate about advancing equity and social justice. Having worked with individual donors and funders for 15+ years, she is committed to creating solidarity and partnership between people with financial privilege and underfunded communities.
Prior to joining Maine Inside Out in 2023, she held development positions with 317 Main Community Music Center, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, and Bowdoin College. She earned an MBA from Antioch University New England and a BS in Communications from Boston University. She continues to be actively involved in equity and racial justice work both in her professional life and local community.
Molly lives in Portland with her partner and two children. She loves music, dance, being active outdoors, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.
Joseph Jackson is a Co-Executive Director and the Director of Community Programs at Maine Inside Out. He is also the Executive Director of Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition, a group that engages in direct advocacy with the Maine Department of Corrections on behalf of prisoners and their families. Another title he carries is Campaign Advisor of Maine Youth Justice, a nonpartisan campaign fighting to end youth incarceration in Maine.
Mr. Jackson was convicted in 1995 of manslaughter and sentenced to the Maine Department of Corrections where he served nineteen years. As a prisoner, Mr. Jackson completed Literacy Volunteer Training, PEER Education, Work Ready Alternatives to Violence, One, Two, and Three. He is a founder of the Maine State Prison chapter of the NAACP and has served on its executive committee in several capacities from 2003-2012. While incarcerated, Mr. Jackson earned his Associate and Bachelor’s degrees with summa cum laude honors from the University of Southern Maine in Augusta. Later that year, he was selected as a member of Who's Who among students in colleges and universities in 2012. Mr. Jackson became the first prisoner in Maine to be selected to University of Southern Maine’s graduate program at StoneCoast while still a prisoner. Mr. Jackson represented the University of Southern Maine in Augusta’s 50 years 50 portraits for their 50 year anniversary in 2015. Mr. Jackson earned his Master’s Degree from the University of Southern Maine and was one of four commencement speakers for his class. Joseph Jackson has published poetry in the on-line news journal Village Soup, in 2003 & 2004. His poetry is featured in Portland and Bangor’s NAACP Martin Luther King breakfast catalogs from 2005-2012. Mr. Jackson's poem Brighter Days was published in the UMA Scholar in 2012. His poetry was featured in Bangor Daily News in 2014. In January 2016, Mr. Jackson released his master’s thesis Black In Maine to the world. You can find the digital copy at https://usm.maine.edu/library.
Tyler Jackson is a Theater Project Facilitator for Maine Inside Out. Tyler works on the theater projects based in Lewiston and has been helping develop the Lewiston site.
Tyler is a dad of twins and he is also a DJ known as DJ GRITZ in his free time.
Chiara Liberatore is a Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director and Lead Project Facilitator working on School Theater Projects along with the Mountain View Theater Project at Maine Inside Out. Prior to MIO, she worked in numerous settings using original theater as a tool for social change. She started as a volunteer for the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan, co-facilitating ongoing theater workshops in multiple adult prisons in Michigan. She continued on as program staff at Music Theater Workshop (now Story Catcher's Theater) in Chicago, working both with incarcerated youth inside the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center and with youth in neighborhoods directly impacted by the Prison Industrial Complex. Chiara is committed to practicing the values and pedagogy learned through her deep study of the work of Paolo Friere and Augusto Boal and Theater of the Oppressed technique. Chiara holds a B.A. in Psychology and English Literature from The University of Michigan and a completed internship at the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory in New York City.
Morgan Millett is the Finance and Administration Manager at Maine Inside Out. Prior to joining MIO in 2021, Morgan went through many different trials and tribulations including incarceration as an older youth at Long Creek Youth Development Center and struggling with drug addiction before and after incarceration. Morgan was what you’d consider a functioning addict; she was able to maintain a job and even complete an associates degree (being recognized with the honours of Phi Theta Kappa). However, she knew that the life of addiction was not the life she was supposed to be living so she did everything she could to change. In February 2018 Morgan got clean and then met the love of her life. They became pregnant that first year and Morgan gave birth to her daughter, Raelynn on May 2, 2019. Shortly after Raelynn’s birth Morgan obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration & Management from Purdue Global University where she graduated with a 3.89 GPA. Morgan and her partner went on to get married in July 2022 and are now expecting their second daughter in January 2024.
Morgan believes in the power of change and experience & just because someone suffers from addiction or past traumas doesn’t mean they are bad people. She aspires to be a light in this dark world by sharing her story of addiction & recovery. She loves spending her free time with family, exercising, experiencing nature, and being around animals (especially dogs).
Dominick Morrison is a Theater Project Facilitator at Maine Inside Out. Dom works on the theater projects based in Portland.
Dom has been a part of Maine Inside Out since he was 15 years old and joined the program when he was incarcerated at Long Creek Youth Development Center. Dom fell in love with theater through Maine Inside out and he was in the play “Free the Real”.
Dom says, “Maine Inside Out is known for being a strong support community and family. Throughout my journey I had hit rock bottom but with Maine Inside Out’s persistent love and compassion and many other people in my community, I can say proudly that I am housed, sober, and thriving for a better life. I’m a facilitator and working with inspiring student artists to make theater.”
Stacy Perez is a Theater Project Facilitator with a focus on School Theater Projects and the Mountain View Theater Project at Maine Inside Out. Stacy joined Maine Inside Out in 2016 as a support for her oldest son Donkell and the youth in her community. Stacy soon became known as “Mom” by many of the Maine Inside Out participants and youth that were impacted by her motherly like presence, support, guidance and work within her community.
Raised in the Midwest, raising her own children in North Carolina, and now her grandchildren in Maine, Stacy brings compassion, understanding, life long experience, support and guidance to the youth surrounding her. Stacy has been a strong presence in whatever community she lives, showing up for young people in her community who are navigating the system and meeting the unmet needs of youth and families as a mentor, advocate and organizer for the last two decades.
Stacy has worked with parents navigating family reunification through Child Protective Services volunteering as an advocate in Parent Partner Programing in Maine. She also has experience as a community support worker providing access to housing resources, schooling, food and clothing assistance, dental care, and job opportunities for seasonal farm workers. Stacy has worked as a group facilitator and a support worker for displaced families of domestic violence in North Carolina and Maine.
At Maine Inside Out, Stacy has supported and advocated alongside many members of our community to navigate system involvement, return home from incarceration, and meet basic needs. She has facilitated theater projects inside Long Creek Youth Development Center and Mountain View Correctional Facility as well as at King Middle School and in community settings. She has also worked with youth to advocate and testify for legislative and policy change.
Stacy enjoys choreographed dancing with her kids, singing to her grandchildren, theatre, art, cooking, skating, spending time with her friends and family, and hanging with the MIO family.