Dr. RaShall M. Brackney is the Chief of Police for Charlottesville, Virginia. Formerly, she served in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police for 30 years and the Chief of Police of the George Washington University. Dr. Brackney is recognized as an expert in the areas of harm reduction, procedural and restorative justice practices, and community-police relations. She is a fellow at Carnegie-Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy, as well as a member of the Vera Institute’s national Steering Committee for Policing Programs. 

Burke Sigurdur Brownfeld is a Co-founder of Guardian Score and has held leadership roles in the public and private sector including Visa Inc, the Washington DC Metro System, and the U.S. Peace Corps. He also is an author, speaker, and documentary film producer focusing on topics related to corporate security and criminal justice. He helped produce the documentary, Charm City, which focused on police-community relationships in Baltimore and premiered at Tribeca in 2018. Brownfeld began his career as an Alexandria Police Officer.

AnnMarie Cordner is an expert in criminal justice policy, particularly as it applies to questions related to social justice and equity. Her career has included work as a criminal justice planner for the Kentucky Criminal Justice Council and as the Deputy Director of the research unit for the Justice and Safety Center at Eastern Kentucky University. She taught full-time at Temple University,

Niagara University, and retired from Kutztown University in the spring of 2020. She has written on a range of topics, including various policing issues, capital punishment, comparative criminal justice education, domestic violence, and criminal justice issues in rural areas.

Gary Cordner is the Academic Director in the Education and Training Section of the Baltimore Police Department. Most recently he served as Chief Research Advisor for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) LEADS Scholars Program and Senior Police Advisor for ICITAP (USDOJ) in Ukraine. He was a CALEA Commissioner (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) for nine years and has been associated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing since its inception. He is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University, where he served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety. Earlier in his career he was a police officer and police chief in Maryland.

Evan Douglas is a fellow at the DC Justice Lab. Prior to his current position, he served as a police officer in Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department – Environmental Crimes Unit. He is a native Washingtonian and over the past ten years has committed his life to actively playing a role in the change he wants to see in his community. Through the implementation of theories such as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Problem-Oriented Policing, Mr. Douglas has been able to combat various sociological ills that police officers are often tasked with solving. He received his bachelor’s in Criminal Justice from Temple University, master’s in Criminology from The George Washington University, and is a member of Omega Phi Psi fraternity. He also serves as a membership outreach representative for the DC Chapter of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, and an Official Spokesperson for the Law Enforcement Action Partnership. 

Ronald E. Hampton retired from the DC Metropolitan Police Department after twenty-three years of service as a Community Relations Officer. He is reputed for his outstanding work with the citizens of the Third Police District in Washington, DC in crime prevention and community participation and relations. His extensive experience and knowledge in community relations and policing has resulted in Mr. Hampton working with organizations such as the Carter Center, Amnesty International, Department of Justice, ACLU, and the National Police Accountability project. Prior to his service in the Metropolitan Police Department, he served four years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force, including in Vietnam.

Valerie Lemmie is the Director of Exploratory Research for the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. She has more than 35 years of managerial experience in solving complex community problems and controversial issues. Prior to joining the Foundation, Lemmie served as Acting Chief of Staff and District Director for Congressman Mike Turner; Commissioner on the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio; and City Manager for the cities of Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and Petersburg, Virginia. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton and Howard University and was a Fellow at The George Washington University’s Center for Municipal Management.

Stefan M. Wheelock is an associate professor of early American literature and religious studies at George Mason University. He has published numerous articles on the rise of early black historical and religious investigation in America. His first book, Barbaric Culture and Black Critique, Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic, examines the earliest attempts by black polemical and autobiographical writers to describe the historical and theological consequences race slavery had on the development of North Atlantic civilization. He is currently working on a book entitled Promises Lynched: Racial Terror, Religion, and the Post-Truth Foundations of American Identity.