Campus About

CALCASA Staff

Dan Esparza, Campus Program Manager

Dan has over 12 years experience working on ending violence against women.  Before joining CALCASA in September 2000, Dan was a rape crisis counselor, volunteer coordinator, and interim Co-Director of the Rape Crisis Center at the Center for Community Solutions in San Diego, CA.  As the first male of color to work at the rape crisis center in San Diego, he worked on several projects focusing on the needs of monolingual Spanish-speaking survivors, the Deaf Community, the LGBT Community, male survivors of sexual assault, university students and training of law enforcement on responding to sexual assault/domestic violence survivors.  Dan is currently the the Program Manager of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, Campus Program at CALCASA.  Dan has also been involved with Amnesty International USA since 2005 in bridging together violence against women and human rights issues.

Althea Hart, Training & Resource Coordinator

Althea served as the Program Coordinator for 5 years at Tougaloo College for the first special initiative awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, Project STOP NOW!  Althea holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Tougaloo College and a Master’s of Science degree in Guidance and Community Counseling from Jackson State University.  She is also an adjunct instructor at Virginia College of Jackson.  Over the past seven years she has worked in various capacities countering violence against women such as volunteer for the Catholic Charities Rape Crisis Center and Sims Transitional Shelter for Women and Children; committee member of Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault Women of Color Caucus, Mississippi State Department of Health and Sexual Violence Prevention Planning Committee, and the Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault SAC Taskforce.

Livia Rojas, Training & Resource Coordinator

Livia began her work in advancing human rights and student organizing ten years ago.  Starting as a student organizer in college working to recruit and retain Chicano/Latino students in higher education, Livia then worked as an immigration defense paralegal in San Francisco and later as the legal program coordinator at the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties.  In New York City, Livia served as a counselor for monolingual Spanish speaking immigrant women survivors of domestic violence and assisted a social work professor studying organizational processes in community collaborative HIV prevention health research.