The Executive Board provides strategic guidance to the National Network for Safe Communities’ leadership.

Anthony W. Batts
Chief, Oakland Police Department
Oakland, CA

Dr. Anthony Braga
Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Harvard University

Colonel Dean Esserman
Chief, New Haven Police Department,
New Haven, CT

Jim Fealy
Chief, High Point Police Department
High Point, NC

Ms. Elizabeth Glazer
Special Counsel to the Attorney General
New York State Attorney General’s Office

Mr. Teny Gross
Executive Director
Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence, Providence, RI

Mr. Ted Heinrich, Esq.

Mr. Glenn Ivey, Esq.

Mr. Robert A J. Lang, Esq.

Pastor Sherman Mason
New Bethel Baptist Church
High Point, NC

Dr. Ed McGarrell
Director
School of Criminal Justice Michigan State University

Professor Tracey Meares
Deputy Dean and Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Ms. Meg Reiss
Executive Assistant District Attorney
Investigation Division
Nassau County
District Attorney’s Office, NY

Thomas H. Streicher, Jr.
Chief (Retired), Cincinnati Police Department
Cincinnati, OH

Reverend Jim Summey
Executive Director
High Point Community Against Violence
High Point, NC

Dr. Doug Thompkins
Department of Sociology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Mr. Stewart Wakeling
Project Director/Principal Investigator
Public Health Institute
Oakland, CA