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Blue Ribbon Task
Force to call on Congress for legislative hearings
regarding gun violence in America today.
Congressman Albert Wynn (D-MD0 with the support of
Congressman Elijah Cummings, (D-MD), has
commissioned this Blue Ribbon Task Force in order to
address the epidemic of gun violence, increasing
youth violence, and overall incidents of violence
permeating American cities today and to call on
Congress to hold legislative hearings to bring this
issue to the forefront of the government and the
American public.
The Task Force has as its mission to make
recommendations to Congressman Wynn for legislation
to present to Congress to help make our cities and
communities safer for all its youth and its
citizens; to look at violence as a health crisis; to
look at violence as the symptom of the problem and
thus address the root causes; and to offer ideas and
solutions based on best practices and successful
models to reduce violence, gun violence, and
increasing incidents of youth violence.
Welcome from Kevin Dwyer, Board Chair, ROOT, Inc,
Kenny Barnes, Founder/CEO. ROOT, Inc, Joel Segal,
senior congressional staffer and ROOT Board Member,
MD Delegate Roger Manno, Chair, ROOT legislative
committee, Mustafa Ali, National Coordinator,
Brookings Institute Fellow and congressional
staffer; Ed Hubbard, Congressman Albert Wynn, and
Vernon Sims, Congressman Elijah Cummings.
Blue Ribbon
Task Force Members:
Ed
Hubbard
Office
of
Representative
Albert
Wynn,
D-MD
Vernon
Simms
Office
of
Representative
Elijah
Cummings,
D-MD
Adrian
Fenty
Mayor,
Washington,
DC
Kurt
Schmoke
Dean,
Howard
University
School
of
Law
Dr.
David
Osher
Vice-President
American
Institute
of
Research
Dr.
Walter
Faggett
National
Medical
Association
Medicaid
Director,
Washington,
DC
Dept
of
Health
Alicia
Horton
Director
of
Marketing
The
Brady
Campaign
Pearl
August
Media/PR
FBI
Productions
Senator
Spencer
Coggs
Wisconsin
State
Legislation
National
Association
of
Black
Legislators
Representative
Harold
Ford
Vice
President,
DLC
John
Gillis
Director,
Office
of
Victim
Services
United
States
Department
of
Justice
Corbett
Kroehler
Democratic
Candidate
for
Congress
8th
District,
State
of
Florida
John
Werden
District
Attorney
Carrol
County,
IO
Rachel
Davis
Prevention
Institute
Dr.
William
Spriggs
Chair,
Department
of
Economics
Howard
University
Richard
Harrison
Department
of
Defense,
ret.
Charles
Ogletree
Professor
of
Law
Harvard
University
Brendan
Boundy
Office
of
Representative
John
W.
Olver,
D-MA
Ronald
Nesbitt
Retired
Special
Agent,
FBI
Member,
National
Organization
of
Black
Law
Enforcement
Executives
(NOBLE)
Vice
President,
General
Electric
James
Fenner
Montgomery
County
Police
Department
Montgomery
County,
MD
Priscilla
Clarke
Clarke
&
Assoc
Media/PR
Hawat
Kasat
One
Common
Unity
John
Dickson
Universal
Peace
Federation
Dr.
Erica
Russell
Franklin
Malone
100
Fathers
Initiative
Dr.
Walter
B.
Lawson
Chair,
Howard
University
Department
of
Psychiatry
and
Behavioral
Health
B P
Weiss
UCLA
Aaron
Ward
Office
of
representative
Eleanor
Holmes
Norton,
D-DC
Stephen
W
Faulkner
Brightside
Internet
Communications
Clarence
Williams
Reporter,
The
Washington
Post
Doris
Spears
PHMC
George
Starke
The
Excel
Institute
NFL
Football,
ret.,
The
Washington
Redskins
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Nancy Ware
Executive
Director
Criminal
Justice Coordinating Council
District of
Columbia
Ann
Brogioli
Social
Worker
District of
Columbia Public School System
James
Dilday, Esq.
Attorney
Boston,
Mass
Janice
Ferebee
Director,
DC Youth Advisory Council
Executive
Office of the Mayor
Washington,
DC
Joel Segal
Office of
Representative John Conyers,
D-MI
J
Ortiz-Petit
Representative, Mayor Manny Diaz, Miami,
FL
Scott Brook
Mayor,
Coral Springs, FL
Ava
Harrison
COO, ROOT,
Inc
Joan Smith
Perseus
Realty
Washington,
DC
Debra
Fifer,
Founder,
Mothers Against Gun Violence
Milwaukee,
WI
Minister
Don Muhammad
Nation of
Islam
Boston, MA
Mustafa Ali
Brookings
Institute Fellow
Office of
Representative John Conyers
National
Coordinator, Blue Ribbon Task Force
Dr. Erika
Van Duren
Organizational Development Manager
DC Dept of
Health
Dr.
Roderick Harrison
Professor,
Howard University
School of
Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Carolyn
Boyd
Asst
Coordinator, Administrator
Blue Ribbon
Task Force
Joyce
Rayzer
Private
Industry
Dr. Olga
Price
The George
Washington University Medical Center
Deputy
Director, Center for Health Care and
Health Care in Schools
Dr. Arvilla
Payne-Jackson
Professor,
Howard University
School of
Sociology and Anthropology
Doug
DeLeaver
President,
the National Organization of Black Law
Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)
Judge
Arthur Burnett
Senior
Judge, Inactive
National
African American Drug Policy Coalition
Barry
Lenoir
Executive
Director
United
Black Fund
Dr. Gerald
O'Day
LAUSD
Dr. Norris
Haynes
Southern
Connecticut University
Roger Manno
Maryland
State Legislator
Dr. Robert
Lerman
Urban
Institute
Johonna
McCants
Dr. Peter
Leone
University
of Maryland
Marian
Urquilla
Executive
Director
Columbia
Heights Shaw Family Collaborative
Washington,
DC
Nkechi
Taifa
Justice
Policy Institute
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