Associate Program Director, Prevention Institute

Lisa Fujie Parks is an associate program director at the national nonprofit Prevention Institute, where she leads much of the organization’s safety portfolio. She has worked with Milwaukee, East San Jose, Santa Clara County, Kansas City, Contra Costa County, Multnomah County, Buncombe County, and other locales, as well as states, to advance public health approaches to community safety that are grounded in racial justice. She is also an innovative leader in community approaches to promoting safe relationships and preventing domestic violence.

Senior Director of Science & Policy, Cure Violence

Charlie Ransford is the Senior Director of Science and Policy for Cure Violence where he leads Cure Violence’s movement to make violence a health issue, oversees all research and development projects, and plays a central role in the development of the organizations strategic and operational plans. Mr. Ransford has authored several key publications on the Cure Violence Model and the health approach, helping to define and explicate the issue of violence as a health issue. Mr. Ransford has been with Cure Violence for 17 years and has previously served as Director of Communications for Cure Violence and Senior Researcher. Before coming to Cure Violence, Mr. Ransford worked at the Department of Justice and also trained in Urban Policy at the Harris School for Public Policy at the University of Chicago where he was a McCormick Leadership Fellow and a Bowman Memorial Fellow.