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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

Jack Calhoun
Senior Consultant
National League of Cities

Joseph Carter
Former President
International Association of Chiefs of Police

Larry Cohen
Executive Director, Prevention Institute
UNITY Co-Chair

Julia Da Silva
Director, Violence Prevention Office
American Psychological Association

Lori Dorfman
Director
Berkeley Media Studies Group

Hon. Dwight Evans
Representative
State of Pennsylvania

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

Mighty Fine
Public Health Analyst
American Public Health Association

Heather Fitzpatrick
Program Manager
American Academy of Pediatrics

Nancy Gannon Hornberger
Executive Director
Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Tony Gomez
Manager, Seattle Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Division
Public Health -- Seattle & King County

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

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

Julio Marcial
Program Director
The California Wellness Foundation

Howard Pinderhughes
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Bheavioral Sciences, School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco

Karen Pittman
Executive Director
Forum for Youth Investment

Deborah Prowthrow-Stith
Consultant, Spencer Stuart 
UNITY Co-Chair

Barri Rosenbluth
Director, School Based Services
Safe Place

Barbara Shaw
Former Director
Illinois Violence Prevention Authority

Gary Slutkin
Director, Research Professor
Cure Violence (Formerly CeaseFire Chicago)

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

Paul Vanderverter
President
Community Partners

Elizabeth Walker
Project Director
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)

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

Billie Weiss
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA
UNITY Co-Chair

Carleen Wray
Executive Director
National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE)

Andrea Youngdahl
Director, Interagency Children's Policy Council
County of Alameda


 

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