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Sarah McGee
Director of Strategic Communications and Legal Policy
Sarah McGee is TADP’s Director of Strategic Communications and Legal Policy and has been on the front lines of drafting, lobbying, and building diverse and bipartisan support to advocate for change in Tennessee. Sarah formerly worked part-time for Tennesseans for Capital Punishment Reform, a (c)4 organization that is affiliated with TADP. In her role with TCPR, she advocated for legislation prohibiting Tennessee from expanding the death penalty as well as excluding individuals with intellectual disability and severe mental illness from the death penalty. From 2012-2014, Sarah completed the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center where she earned her LL.M. with Distinction, focusing primarily on representing children accused of serious crimes. Prior to Georgetown, Sarah earned her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Sarah served as an assistant public defender for the Nashville Defenders representing both kids and adults charged with a variety of offenses.
Rafiah Muhammad-McCormick
Director of Community Outreach
Rafiah Muhammad – McCormick was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan and relocated to Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2015. Rafiah is a graduate of Governors State University in Illinois and has a long career as an engineering project manager predominantly in the automotive industry. After suffering a family tragedy in 2020, Rafiah decided to transfer her skill set of planning and strategizing to the nonprofit sector working with agencies focused on victim’s advocacy, social justice, and criminal justice reform. In 2022, Rafiah joined Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP), an organization whose mission is to honor life by abolishing the death penalty, as the Coordinator for Community Outreach. Rafiah is passionate about restorative justice and redemption as ways to prevent future violence and heal the trauma of violence in our communities. In her spare time Rafiah volunteers by supporting families of murdered victims and preventing violence through mentoring work with youth that are at risk of gang participation and violence.
Stacy Rector
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Reverend Stacy Rector is a native of Dyersburg, Tennessee, a graduate of Rhodes College and Columbia Theological Seminary, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. She served as Associate Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville for nine years. In 2006, Rev. Rector became Executive Director of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP), an organization whose mission is to honor life by abolishing the death penalty. She also served as spiritual advisor to Steve Henley, an inmate on Tennessee’s death row who was executed on February 4, 2009. Reverend Rector has served on the boards of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, UKIRK Nashville, and Community Shares Tennessee. She is also active in the Presbytery of Middle Tennessee.