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Steering Committee

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Sara Bedford
Interim Director, Department of Human Services
City of Oakland

Linda Bowen
Executive Director
Community Institute for Peace

Father Greg Boyle
Executive Director
Homeboy Industries

Jessica Carda-Auten
Program Manager
National Association of County & City Health Officials

Joseph Carter
Chair Elect
National Police Chief's Association

Larry Cohen
Executive Director
Prevention Institute

Julia Da Silva
Director, Violence Prevention Office
American Psychological Association

Lori Dorfman
Director
Berkeley Media Studies Group

Hon. Dwight Evans
State Representative
Pennsylvania

Adolph Falcon
Vice President for Science and Policy
National Alliance for Hispanic Health

Mighty Fine
Public Health Analyst
American Public Health Association

Nancy Gannon Hornberger
Executive Director
The Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Tony Gomez
Manager
Seattle Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Division

Fred Griego
Senior Community Fellow
Office for Community Learning and Public Service

Paul Juarez
Professor and Vice Chair
Meharry Medical College

Ivan Juzang
Executive Director
MEE Productions

Bonnie Kozial
Manager, Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention
American Academy of Pediatrics

Phil Leaf
Director, Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Cheryl Maxson
Associate Professor
UC Irvine Department of Criminology, Law & Society

Julio Marcial
Program Director
The California Wellness Foundation

Howard Pinderhughes
Associate Professor
UCSF, Department for Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing

Karen Pittman
Executive Director
Forum for Youth Investment

Deborah Prowthrow-Stith
Consultant
Spencer Stuart

Barri Rosenbluth
Director, School Based Services
Safe Place

Barbara Shaw
Director
Illinois Violence Prevention Authority

Gary Slutkin
Director, Research Professor
Chicago CeaseFire

Susan Sorenson
Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice
University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice

Paul Vanderverter
President
Community Partners

Elizabeth Walker
Senior Director of Health Improvement
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Natoya Walker- Minor
Special Assistant to the Mayor Public Affairs
Office of the Mayor, City of Cleveland

Billie Weiss
Department of Epidemiology
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Carleen Wray
Executive Director
National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere


 

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