Community Safety
What should we do to keep North Carolina communities safe?
Over the course of five months, NCLF will explore a critically important topic for the future of our state: What should we do to keep North Carolina communities safe?
NCLF brings together a distinguished bipartisan group of North Carolina leaders to discuss major issues facing our state, to understand different points of view about how to address those issues, and to discuss solutions that improve the lives of North Carolinians. Our goal is to facilitate substantive and meaningful dialogue among people positioned to help shape the future.
Participants from Cohort 8
Karen Alexander – Mayor, City of Salisbury
Daryl Atkinson – Co-Director, Forward Justice
Gene Blackmon – Director, Establishing Safe Cultures
Kristen Brabble – Chief Operating Officer, First Carolina Bank
Maggie Brewer – Chief Deputy Secretary – Rehabilitative and Correctional Services, NC Department of Adult Correction
Brandy Bynum Dawson – Senior Director of Rural Prosperity and Investment, MDC
Tarrah Callahan – Executive Director, Conservatives for Criminal Justice Reform
Darren Campbell – Sheriff, Iredell County Sheriff’s Office
Becky Ceartas – Executive Director, North Carolinians Against Gun Violence (NCGV)
Warren Daniel – Senator, North Carolina General Assembly
Ted Davis – Representative, North Carolina General Assembly
James Dean – CEO, JD Financial Group and Associates, Inc
James Gore – Sr. Program Officer, The Just Trust
Jon Guze – Senior Fellow, Legal Studies, John Locke Foundation
Drew Heath – Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
David Levine – Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Red Hat, Inc
Carolyn Logan – Representative, North Carolina General Assembly
Ya Liu – Representative, North Carolina General Assembly
Mary Martin – Chief Operating Officer, Duke University Hospital
David McFarling – President, North Carolina Rifle and Pistol Association
Frankie Roberts – Executive Director, Leading into New Communities Inc (LINC Inc)
Brian Scott – Executive Director, OurJourney
Matt Scott – District Attorney, Robeson County
Betsey Tilson – State Health Director/Chief Medical Officer, NC Department of Health and Human Services
William Vasquez – Attorney & Founder, Vasquez Law Firm, PLLC
Thomas Walker – Attorney, former United States Attorney, Alston & Bird
Zach Wallace – Vice President, Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce
Stephanie Watkins-Cruz – Director of Housing Policy, North Carolina Housing Coalition
Leonardo Williams – Mayor, City of Durham
