OUR TEAM

The team

The people building PICL and bringing the game inside.

Roger BelAir

Roger BelAir

Founder

In 2017, Roger watched a 60 Minutes segment on Chicago's Cook County Jail and noticed the people inside had little to do but play cards. He called Sheriff Tom Dart and offered to teach pickleball. Disciplinary problems went down, and people who wouldn't speak to each other started playing together.

That program took him to prisons from Rikers Island to San Quentin, with coverage from USA Today, the Washington Post, and NPR. A documentary about the work is in production.

Sarah Gersten

Sarah Gersten

Co-founder and President

Sarah oversees PICL's operations, management, and legal compliance. She is also Executive Director and General Counsel of the Last Prisoner Project, a national nonprofit working to improve conditions of confinement and support people coming home.

An avid player, she brought PICL to Connecticut, where it now runs in every state correctional facility, and is expanding it across the Northeast.

Angelo Rossetti

Angelo Rossetti

Head Pickleball Professional, Connecticut

Coach Angelo is one of the most credentialed pickleball coaches in the world. He holds nearly every major coaching certification, including IPTPA, RSPA, PPR, DUPR, RPO, and RPPK (Tyson McGuffin), and has certified coaches for three organizations. He is RSPA's head coach developer for New England under André Daescu, and RSPA named him its 2026 National Pickleball Coach Developer of the Year.

He specializes in mental skills, developing players on and off the court. He runs Pickleville in New Haven, Connecticut, with his identical twin brother, Ettore. Together they hold five Guinness World Records titles, three of them in pickleball.

Reach him directly at angelo@rossettibrothers.com.

Cam Boucher

Cam Boucher

Co-founder and Partnerships

Cam leads PICL's partnerships and fundraising, drawing on a background in nonprofit operations, marketing automation, and CRM systems. He is also Director of Operations at the Last Prisoner Project.

He has taught pickleball in correctional facilities across New England and lives in Massachusetts.

Gabriela Rivera

Gabriela Rivera

Communications

Gabriela uses digital and print media, and translation, to close information gaps in underserved communities. She has translated for Philadelphia newsrooms, the Last Prisoner Project, and community projects including Equally Informed Philly and the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative.

She is pursuing a master's in Communication for Development and Social Change at Temple University.