Nazsa Baker, PhD, MA, is the new research director and program manager of The Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFGH) in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Baker recently completed her postdoctoral fellowship with the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in urban systems with a concentration in urban health Rutgers University, School of Nursing, in October 2021. Her research focuses on community violence with an emphasis on firearm violence survivorship among Black men and hospital-based and hospital-linked violence intervention programs.

Hashim Garrett is a renowned motivational speaker and consultant with over two decades of experience in resilience training, social and emotional learning, and conflict resolution through forgiveness. Growing up in Brooklyn, NY, Garrett faced bullying and eventually joined a gang to gain power and recognition. However, at 15, a tragic event changed his life when he was shot and paralyzed from the waist down and this moment of crisis led him to reevaluate his choices and commit to a path of positive change.

In 2001, Garrett founded Wisdom and Understanding, LLC, offering trauma-sensitive workshops designed to help individuals and organizations develop personal and professional growth strategies. His work has made him a sought-after collaborator with education boards, non-profits, and law enforcement agencies. One of those collaborations led him to partner with an international speaker’s bureau, Breaking the Cycle of Violence, an organization dedicated to promoting conflict resolution and forgiveness.

From 2004 to 2010, Garrett played a key role in the Violence Prevention Institute’s Cops and Docs program, delivering workshops highlighting violence’s long-term health consequences. His collaboration with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and emergency room physicians underscored his commitment to addressing the root causes of conflict.

Christopher St. Vil is an associate professor at the State University of New York’s (SUNY) University at Buffalo in the School of Social Work. Trained as both a researcher and evaluator, his work lies at the intersection of masculinity and victims of violent injury, with a focus on trauma recidivism. His work is rooted both within the hospital and community settings. St. Vil has contributed to understanding research conducted with victims of violent injury and men and boys in general, specifically in the areas of recruitment, protocol development, and study design. St. Vil is researching improving the efficacy of front-line community violence prevention workers by integrating research methods with social service delivery.

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).