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Cornell William Brooks is the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 2014, he became the 18th person to serve as chief executive of the association, whose members in the United States and worldwide are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities.

A graduate of Head Start and Yale Law School, Brooks considers himself “a grandson, heir, and a beneficiary” of the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education, argued by legendary NAACP litigator Thurgood Marshall. As a civil rights attorney, social justice advocate, fourth-generation ordained minister, and coalition-builder, Brooks’ life and experience exemplify the NAACP’s mission to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for all citizens.

Reverend Jeffrey L. Brown is a nationally recognized leader and expert in gang, youth, and urban violence reduction and coalition building. He is the founder of RECAP (Rebuilding Every Community Around Peace), a new national organization organized to assist cities build better partnerships between community, government, and law enforcement agencies to reduce gang violence. He is also one of the co-founders of the Boston Ten Point Coalition, a faith-based group that was an integral part of the “Boston Miracle,” during which the city experienced a 79 percent decline in violent crime in the 1990s, spawning countless urban collaborative efforts in subsequent years that followed the Boston Operation Ceasefire model. Brown serves as a consultant to municipalities and police departments on issues around youth violence and community mobilization, and provides expertise to Fortune 25 corporations and
the World Bank for the past 14 years on collaborative leadership and managing change.

He is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study on his efforts and is an integral part of three others from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Brown recently gave a TED Talk on his experiences, and it has since been seen by almost 1 million viewers. He is the recipient of numerous local and national awards and citations. His current project is to generate a national conversation on the importance of faith and community institutions in public safety prescriptions. He pastored the Union Baptist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for 22 years, has spoken and lectured widely, and is known for his fiery and inspiring messages.

A resident of the Dorchester area of Boston, Brown is married and has three children of adult age.

Andrea J. Cabral was sworn in to Governor Deval Patrick’s cabinet on January 23, 2013, as the executive secretary of public safety, where she served until February 2015. As secretary, she oversaw 14 public safety agencies, including the Massachusetts State Police, the State Department of Correction, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, the State Parole Board, and the Massachusetts National Guard. From 2002 to 2013, she was the sheriff of Suffolk County and the first female sheriff in Massachusetts history. Initially appointed to the position in 2002, she won election in 2004 and re-election in 2010. She is a past president and past vice-president of the Massachusetts Sheriffs Association.

As an assistant district attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office from 1993 to 2002, she specialized in prosecutions of domestic violence felonies and civil rights violations. As chief of district court and community prosecutions, she trained and supervised 48 prosecutors in Suffolk County’s eight district courts and the Boston Municipal Court. She also created and was chief of Suffolk County’s first major felony Domestic Violence Unit.

From 1991 to 1993, she was an assistant attorney general in the Trial and Civil Rights Divisions of the Attorney General’s Office and an assistant district attorney in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office from 1987 to 1991.

From 2010 to 2015, she served as one of 18 national experts appointed to the Science Advisory Board (SAB) by United States Attorney General Eric Holder. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, the Editorial Board of Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly, and the Governing Board of the Mass Mentoring Partnership.

She is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University Law School.

Harold Cox is associate dean for public health practice and associate professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. He is a member of the Massachusetts Public Health Council and the Boston Public Health Commission and serves as chair of the statewide Regionalization Working Committee, which is exploring methods to improve public health service delivery in Massachusetts. At SPH, Cox manages the newly formed Activist Lab, which seeks to engage the school in real-world public health. Trained as a social worker, he has extensive practice experience with mental retardation, HIV/AIDS, and governmental public health.

Nazgol Ghandnoosh is a research analyst at The Sentencing Project who conducts and synthesizes research on criminal justice policies. She analyzes racial disparities in the justice system, public opinion about punishment, and the scope of reform efforts. Her report, “Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies,” was featured in outlets including the New York Times and WNYC’s On the Media. She has also co-authored “Can We Wait 88 Years to End Mass Incarceration?” and “Fewer Prisoners, Less Crime: A Tale of Three States.” She edits The Sentencing Project’s Race & Justice News newsletter.

Ghandnoosh earned a BA in economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, “Challenging Mass Incarceration: A California Group’s Advocacy for the Parole Release of Term-to-Life Prisoners,” examined resistance to severe sentences through an in-depth study of a South Los Angeles-based group.

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Roy Martin is a “born-and-raised” Bostonian who grew up in the Bromley-Heath housing development in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston.

Today Martin is employed by the Boston Public Health Commission. In his professional career at BPHC, Martin was hired initially as the lead advocate for victims of violence at Boston Medical Center, then was reassigned as one of the lead case managers for the Father Friendly Initiative, working to support low-to-no income dads reconnect with their children and to re-assume their roles and obligations as fathers. Martin’s role would then evolve into a re-entry initiative spearheaded by the Boston Public Health Commissions Bureau of Substance Abuse, working as the lead case manager at the South Bay House of Correction.

Currently, Martin is the Boston Public Health Commission’s program director for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ “Safe and Successful Youth Initiative,” a component of the City of Boston’s city-wide “Public Safety Initiative.” In this current capacity, part of Martin’s core responsibilities are to work collaboratively with city, state, and community agencies to increase and improve service delivery and capacity of service providers working with gang- and court-involved young men who are identified as either perpetrators of violence or persons injured (or likely to be injured) by an act of violence. Martin also remains directly connected to his client population by continuing to provide direct case management services to individuals and families who have been identified as most in need.

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