Leadership Council
Our leadership council unites diverse community leaders, criminal justice experts, and neighborhood advocates to transform public safety in Grand Rapids through data-driven, equity-centered solutions.
Aaron Yore-VanOosterHout
Johnson Center for Philanthropy @GVSU
Amari Fuller
Michigan League for Public Policy
Angelica Ferrer
Kent County Prosecutors Office
Beverly Ryskamp
Network180
Brandon Davis
City of Grand Rapids
Chief Deputy Lyndsie Cole
Kent County Sheriff’s Department
Chief Judge Angela Ross
61st District Court
Deputy Chief Mike Maycroft
Grand Rapids Police Department
Eurkea People
Housing Kent
Fire Marshall Bill Smith
Grand Rapids Fire Department
JD Chapman
Realism is Loyalty
John Wittkowski
Kent Intermediate School District
Parris McMurray
Renaissance Church of God in Christ / Grand Rapids Public Schools
Rachel VerWys
Safe Haven Ministries
Trudy Ender
Women’s Resource Center
Trudy Ngo-Brown
Steelecase Foundation
Victoria Proctor-Gibbs
Community Member