RPP Colloquium: Healing, Bridge-Building, and Empowerment to Address Gun Violence

A discussion by leaders in the Boston area driving inspiring community-based initiatives to address the effects and sources of gun violence.
Speakers: Chaplain Clementina Chéry, founder, president, and CEO, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute; Stanley Pollack, founder and executive director, Center for Teen Empowerment, presenting with a youth organizer; Monalisa Smith, founder, president, and CEO, Mothers for Justice and Equality; John M. Brown, Sergeant Detective, Boston Police Department
Respondent: David J. Harris, managing director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Rev. Liz Walker, MDiv '05, pastor, Roxbury Presbyterian Church; board chair, Cory Johnson Trauma Education Program; award-winning journalist and former television news anchor in Boston
Cosponsored with the Racial Justice and Healing Initiative at Harvard Divinity School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. With generous support from the Rev. Karen Vickers Budney, MDiv ’91, and Mr. Albert J. Budney, Jr., MBA ’74.
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