RESOURCE, POLICY, AND DATA TEAMS

Community-Building Resource Team:

  • George Moses – Co-Chair – Director, North East Area Development (NEAD) CDF Freedom Schools
  • Shaun Nelms – Co-Chair – Deputy Superintendent of East High School
  • Doug Ackley – Director, Teen Empowerment
  • Pierre Dorancy – Housing Manager, Rochester Housing Authority
  • Jackie Dozier – Program Coordinator of the Minority Health Initiatives at Trillium Health
  • Adrian Elim – Member of B.L.A.C.K. Rochester, Brothahood Productions
  • Robert Frazier – Community Member
  • Daryl Gaston – Sergeant, Rochester Police Department
  • Evelyn Holmes – Customer Service Representative, Excellus BCBS
  • Tanisha Johnson – RCSD Counselor
  • Ray Mayoliz – Manager of Youth Outreach and Violence Prevention for the City of Rochester
  • Melany Silas – Associate Professor at MCC, Melany Silas Productions
  • Ryan Van Alstyne – Associate Director, Group 14621 Neighborhood Association
  • Tracy Williams – Business owner, Founder of “We The People”
  • CliandaYarde – Community Member

Structural Racism Resource Team:

  • Marvin McMickle – Co-Chair – President, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
  • James Norman – Co-Chair - President/CEO, Action for a Better Community, Inc.
  • Hanif Abdul-Wahid – Community Liaison for Neighborhood Initiatives, Monroe County Department of Planning & Development
  • Marcus Bliss – Community Member
  • Michael Boucher – Co-Director of Counseling and Community Works at St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center, Teen Empowerment
  • Jean Carroll – President & CEO, YWCA of Rochester and Monroe County, Stand Against Racism Initative
  • Minister Clifford Florence – Assistant Minister, Central Church of Christ
  • Steve Jarose – Director of the Upstate NY Chapter of National Coalition Building Institute, blogger for UNITE Rochester, FR=EE involvement
  • Kit Miller – Director, Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
  • John Paul Perez – Director of Housing Services, Catholic Family Center
  • Gladys Pedraza-Burgos – Chief Operating Officer, Ibero-American Action League
  • Julie Philipp – Senior Engagement Editor, Democrat and Chronicle, Unite Rochester
  • Danielle Ponder – Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender’s Office
  • Reverend Lewis Stewart – President, United Christian Leadership Ministry

Trauma Resource Team:

  • Trilby De Jung – Co-Chair – President and CEO, Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency
  • Christiana Otuwa – Co-Chair – Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, RCSD
  • Megan Bell – Executive Director, Wilson Foundation
  • Anne-Marie Conn – Instructor, General Pediatrics, URMC
  • Melanie Funchess – Director of Community Engagement at the Mental Health Association
  • Mary Hartstein – Program Associate, Rochester Area Community Foundation
  • Haqi Jamison – Community Member
  • Jeff Kaczorowski – President of The Children’s Agenda, founding Director of the Hoekelman Center for training leaders in community health and advocacy at Golisano Children's Hospital, UR Pediatrics
  • Elizabeth Meeker – Director of Training and Practice Transformation for Coordinated Care Services, Inc., Clinical Consultant for the Monroe County Office of Mental Health, prior Coordinator of The Consortium on Trauma, Illness, and Grief in Schools
  • Angelica Perez – Vice President of Quality, Compliance, IT and Addiction Services at Villa of Hope
  • Shanterra Randle-Brown – Program Coordinator, Teen Empowerment
  • Jaime Saunders – Executive Director, Willow Domestic Violence Center
  • ShareeToth – Director of Mt. Hope Family Center, an affiliate program of the Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology at the University of Rochester
  • Ruth Turner – Social-Emotional Coordinator, RCSD

POLICY TEAM:

  • John Urban – Chair – President and CEO, Greater Rochester Health Foundation
  • DaanBraveman – President, Nazareth College
  • Bill Clark – President & CEO, Urban League of Rochester
  • Jeremy Cooney – Chief of Staff, City of Rochester
  • Bill Daubney – President & CEO, Hope Initiatives
  • Joel Frater – Executive Dean, MCC – Damon Campus
  • Bryan Hetherington, Esq. – Chief Counsel, Empire Justice Center
  • Patty Larke – District Director, Office of Congresswomen Louise Slaughter
  • Larry Marx – Executive Director, The Children’s Agenda
  • Miguel Melendez – Special Projects Director, Ibero-American Development Director
  • Kelly Reed – Commissioner, Monroe County Human Services
  • Joe Wesley – Director, Wegmans Food Market

DATA TEAM:

  • Ed Doherty – Chair – Retired Vice President, Rochester Area Community Foundation
  • Henry Fitts – Project Manager, Office of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives for the City of Rochester
  • Ann Johnson – Senior Director of Community Foundation Initiatives, ACT Rochester
  • Nancy Forgue – Deputy Commissioner, Monroe County Department of Human Services
  • StasLotyczewski – Director of Research and Evaluation Service, The Children’s Institute
  • Mike Merulla – Electronic Commerce Manager, Wegmans Food Markets
  • Guillermo Montes – Director of Research, The Children’s Institute
  • Peter Nabozny – Senior Associate, Center for Governmental Research
  • Erika Rosenberg – Principal, Center for Governmental Research
  • Ramesh Sridharan – Director of Technical Services, Rochester RHIO
  • Tanya Thurman – Policy Analyst, Action for a Better Community, Inc.
  • Aaron Wicks – Vice President for Planning & Evaluation, Action for a Better Community, Inc.

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