Cohort 3

Ricky Aiken
Executive Director, Inner City Innovators
West Palm Beach, FL

Uche Bean
Director of Community Safety Initiatives, Mayor’s Office
Birmingham, AL

John Beard
Site Coordinator, Live Free/Community Healing Resource Center
Chicago, IL

Ingram Bell
Program Manager, Gate City Coalition/One Step Further, Inc.
Greensboro, NC

DeVitta Briscoe
Gun Violence Prevention Liaison, Office of Mayor Bruce Harrell
Seattle, WA

Melody Brooks
Manager of Operations & Partnerships, Youth Guidance
Chicago, IL

Sharmaine Brown
Founder and Executive Director, Jared’s Heart of Success, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Darryl Chambers
Founder and Executive Director, Center for Structural Equity
Wilmington, DE

Renaldo Chavis
Director, Newark Community Street Team
Newark, NJ

Deborah Daniels
Executive Director, Offender Alumni Association
Birmingham, AL

Paris Davis
Intervention Programs Director, Youth ALIVE!
Oakland, CA

Johnnie Graham-Wicks
OVP Director, Kankakee United/City of Kankakee
Kankakee, IL

La’Keisha Gray-Sewell
Executive Director, Girls Like Me Project
Chicago, IL

Guillermo Gutierrez
Street Intervention Manager, Enlace Chicago
Chicago, IL

Ashanti Hamilton
Director, City of Milwaukee Office of Community Wellness and Safety
Milwaukee, WI

Richard Hermitt
Program Manager, Man Up! Inc.
Queens, NY

David Johnson
Program Manager, Bill City United
Durham, NC

Rahaman Kilpatrick
Advisor of Community Engagement and Advocacy, Horton’s Kids
Washington, DC

Chantel Lowery
Health Program Supervisor, Mecklenburg County Public Health Department Office of Violence Prevention
Charlotte, NC

Jaime Meekins
Community Outreach Director/Outreach Manager, The Excelsior School of Philadelphia and Pushing Progress Philly
Philadelphia, PA

Jazzika Matthews
Director of Programs and Operations, Office of the Mayor-President CVI Strategies Team
Baton Rouge, LA

Jarmain Merritt
CEO, No Brother Left Behind
Chicago, IL

Jordan Murphy
Founder and Executive Director, Girassol Wellness, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Maurice Pha’Tal Perkins
Executive Director, Think Outside Da Block
Chicago, IL

Bennie Price
Program Director, Big Mama’s Safe House
San Antonio, TX

Darrell Redmond
Founder and Executive Director, Giveback2dablock
Portsmouth, VA

Courtney Scott
Assistant Chief Administrative Officer, Office of the Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome
Baton Rouge, LA

Perry Shaw III
Executive Director, Building A Better Way For Trenton/Trenton Community Street Team
Trenton, NJ

Kwelli Sneed
Interim Director, District of Columbia Government Office of Neighborhood Safety & Engagement
Washington, DC

LV Thomas
Executive Director, On My Grind Re-Entry Services, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Brian Tillman
Senior Group Violence Interventionist & HVIP Lead, City Of Memphis Group Violence Intervention & Hospital Violence Intervention Program
Memphis, TN

Jason Watson
Senior Vice President of Engagement, Mission: Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO

Varonika Wilson
Community Resource Director, Urban Specialist
Glenn Heights, TX