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