People

Sarah Jack
President and Executive Director
Sarah Jack is passionate about collaborating to eliminate witch-hunting of all kinds. She has a family connection to witch-hunt victims in Massachusetts and Connecticut, which inspires her work to educate the world on witch hunts past and present. She is looking for like-minded advocates to grow the message. Sarah is co-founder of the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project, co-creator and co-host of Witch Hunt, and President of End Witch Hunts. As president, Sarah sets the organization’s direction. As executive director, she guides day-to-day operations.

Josh Hutchinson
Treasurer
A writer and podcast host, Josh Hutchinson has been studying witch trials for more than fifteen years and sharing witch-hunt facts online for more than ten years. He has family connections to witch trials in Massachusetts. Josh is a co-founder of End Witch Hunts, the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project, and the Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project. As treasurer, he is responsible for bookkeeping, accounting, and financial reporting. He also created, edits, and co-hosts our official podcast, Witch Hunt. In addition, he is project lead of the Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project.

Jennifer Stevenson
Secretary
Jen Stevenson is a business consultant. With a solid foundation built on hands-on experience as a successful business owner, Jen has had the honor of guiding numerous entrepreneurs and businesses towards achieving their growth objectives. Jen’s journey has been defined by a relentless passion for empowering individuals to assess and optimize crucial facets of their operations. As secretary, she maintains End Witch Hunts corporate records, acts as a communication conduit, records meeting minutes, and ensures board member contact information is up to date.

Mary Louise Bingham
Director
Mary Louise Bingham is A descendant of Susannah Martin, Mary Estey and Sarah Wildes, all hanged at Salem, 1692. She is also an amateur Genealogist and Lay Historian. Her research specialty is colonial witch trials in New England. She is a co-founder of the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project. She has a recurring segment, Minute with Mary, on Witch Hunt and is the author of a blog about witch trials and harmful practices.

Beth Caruso
Director
Since 2015, Beth Caruso has been educating the public about the Connecticut witch trials through her historical novels (One of Windsor, The Salty Rose, and Between Good and Evil) lectures, articles, and social media. She has been advocating for exoneration since 2016, when she co-founded the Facebook Page, CT WITCH Memorial. She organized efforts with Tony Griego for exoneration of Windsor’s trial victims, Alice Young and Lydia Gilbert, in 2017. Most recently, Beth co-authored “Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647-1693.” which appeared in the Fall 2022 edition of Connecticut History Review (61:2) with historian, Dr. Katherine Hermes.
