Jerome Brown has been employed by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) as the statewide training director for the SNUG Street Outreach program since July 2021. In this role, he oversees all training provided to newly hired and newly promoted SNUG employees and coordinates professional development training that SNUG staff are required to complete annually. He has been a SNUG master trainer since 2018. Brown joined DCJS after serving as program manager of the Albany 518 SNUG for four years. He moved to Albany, New York, in 2017 after working as a violence interrupter, outreach worker, and outreach worker supervisor at the SNUG program in his hometown of Buffalo, New York.

Deanna Logan serves as the director of the New York City (NYC) Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ). She previously served as the general counsel and deputy director of crime strategies for the office. She joined MOCJ in 2019 as the deputy director of crime strategies, and coordinated the efforts of the City’s courts, NYC Department of Correction (DOC), NYC Correctional Health Services (CHS), NYC Department of Social Services (DSS), NYC Department of Finance (DOF), and the New York Police Department (NYPD) to meet the requirements of the City’s Criminal Justice Reform Act. Prior to joining MOCJ, Logan worked with District Attorney Darcel Clark to design, establish, and supervise the Rikers Island Prosecution Bureau. Prior to her work in the Bronx, Logan served as the assistant commissioner at the DOC, where she worked to reform and strengthen internal discipline. She holds a BA in political science from Boston University and earned her JD at New York University School of Law.

Isabel Rojas is the associate director of legitimacy and reconciliation at the National Network for Safe Communities. Prior to joining the National Network, Rojas worked for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office as the project manager for their group violence intervention efforts in the city of Newburgh, New York. In her role, she worked with local law enforcement, city officials, state officials, the United States Attorney’s Office, and other local partnering agencies to reduce gun violence. Rojas also served as a police officer with the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Port St. Lucie Police Department in the state of Florida. Rojas holds a BS in behavioral science from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a masters in public administration from Kaplan University.

Jeffrey A. Butts is a member of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium and director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY) where he is a research professor. Previously, he was a research fellow with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, director of the Program on Youth Justice at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, and senior research associate at the National Center for Juvenile Justice in Pittsburgh. Butts has managed research projects with budgets totaling $51 Million ($58 Million in 2021 dollars) and he has worked with policymakers and justice practitioners in 28 states and several countries. He has published two books and dozens of monographs and reports for government agencies and foundations, as well as articles in academic and peer-reviewed journals. He graduated with a BA in sociology from the University of Oregon and an MSW from Portland State University before earning his PhD at the University of Michigan. Jeff began his justice career as a drug and alcohol counselor with the juvenile court in Eugene, Oregon.

Jaclyn Schildkraut, PhD, is the executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium. Prior to this appointment, she served as an associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego. A national expert on school and mass shootings, Schildkraut’s work focuses on the effectiveness of policies aimed at prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery. Her most recent research, conducted as part of the largest study in the nation to date, examined the effects of school lockdown drills on participants and their skill mastery. In addition to being published in a book and multiple journal articles, the findings of this research are being used by school districts to help improve their emergency response plans. She also has conducted and published research examining the impacts of mass shootings on survivors, which led to her providing an expert report for Canada’s Mass Casualty Commission charged with investigating the April 2020 mass casualty event in Nova Scotia. Other recent projects have considered perceptions of armed teachers and policy responses to mass shootings.

Schildkraut is the co-author of Mass Shootings: Media, Myths and Realities (2016); Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons from Tragedy (2019); and Lockdown Drills: Connecting Research and Best Practices for School Administrators, Teachers, and Parents (2022). She served as the editor on two additional volumes—Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debate, Causes, and Responses (2018) and Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law (3rd edition; 2022), and has two additional books under contract. Her research related to mass and school shootings also has been published more than 40 scholarly articles that appear in journals such as the American Journal of Criminal Justice, Homicide Studies, Journal of School Violence, Victims & Offenders, School Psychology Review, Educational Policy, Security Journal, and Crime Prevention and Community Safety. Schildkraut’s research and expertise are regularly sought after by local, national, and international news outlets, including CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Associated Press, Reuters, BBC News, and The Telegraph (UK).