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Meet the Team

We are dedicated to funding evidence-based strategies that can stop murders before they happen.

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CHANDRA DAWSON

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RACHEL USDAN

Chief Operating Officer

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MARVIN WEBB

Fractional Chief Financial Officer

Executive Director

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NAKEDA GILBERT

Program Manager - DC Peace Academy

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TONISIA CARTER

Case Manager - HEAL DC

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NIA WALTON

Data Systems & Analytics Lead

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LORENZO SANDERS

Violence Intervention Specialist - HEAL DC

LISA GORDON

Program and Operations Coordinator

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Mannone Butler

Head of Programs & Partnerships - National Basketball Association Social Justice Coalition, Former Executive Director of DC Criminal Justice Coordinating Council

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Tahir Duckett

Executive Director - Center for Innovations in Community Safety & Adjunct Professor, both at Georgetown Law School

Meet Our Board of Directors

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Arne Duncan

Managing Partner - Emerson Collective, Founder - Chicago CRED, Former US Secretary of Education

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Pastor Delonte Gholston

Lead Pastor - Peace Fellowship Church, Washington, DC Founder and Leader - Peace Walks DC

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Amber Goodwin

Founder - Community Justice Action Fund and the Community Justice Reform Coalition Assistant District Attorney- Gun Violence Prevention Policy, Travis County District Attorney’s Office

Dr. Robert K. Johns

Director of Strategic Corporate and Community Engagement in the Office of Corporate Relations at Howard University

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Jane Korhonen

Partner, Brown Advisory. Chair of Private Client Investment Committee

Karen J. Lee

Executive Director in Washington DC for Fifty

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Roger Marmet

Founder, Peace For DC

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Mary Zients

Founding Member and Board Chair - Urban Alliance Foundation

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