{"id":101,"date":"2021-10-07T23:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T03:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/cics\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:16:12","slug":"board-of-advisors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/cics\/board-of-advisors\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>ABLE Project<\/em> is dedicated to bringing active bystandership training \u2013 and, more importantly, a culture of peer intervention \u2013 to police agencies across the country.\u00a0 The ABLE Board of Advisors brings together an exceptional and diverse group of 20-25 people each year \u2013 police chiefs and commanders, line officers, academics, and practitioners \u2013 to help guide the ABLE Project.\u00a0 It is the Board of Advisors\u2019 responsibility to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide advice and guidance on how best to achieve ABLE\u2019s five core missions.<\/li>\n<li>Where interests and experience align, join ABLE working groups to help achieve ABLE\u2019s five core missions in a more hands-on fashion.<\/li>\n<li>Serve as a sounding board for ongoing and potential new ABLE initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>Serve as an ambassador for ABLE and active bystandership generally across the country.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in periodic virtual meetings\/conferences to discuss issues relating to active bystandership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ABLE Board of Advisors all are committed to the power of active bystandership not only to reduce officer mistakes, prevent misconduct, and promote health and wellness, but also to serve as a vehicle for true cultural change.\u00a0 The Board of Advisors believes teaching active bystandership, and creating cultures of peer intervention, is a key part of transforming not only the culture of policing, but of communities generally.\u00a0 The Board of Advisors also believes that whatever policing may look like in the future, we will continue to need the skills, strategies, and tactics of active bystandership.<\/p>\n<h2>2020\/2021 ABLE Board of Advisors<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Hassan Aden<\/strong><br \/>\nFounder and President, The Aden Group<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Aronie, Esq. (Chair)<\/strong><br \/>\nPartner, Sheppard Mullin LLP<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roy L. Austin<\/strong><br \/>\nVice President of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, Meta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carimaxy Benitez-Garcia <\/strong><br \/>\nPolice Officer, Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Benson<\/strong><br \/>\nPolice Officer, Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Travis I. Brooks<\/strong><br \/>\nLieutenant, New Orleans Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Douglass, Esq<\/strong><br \/>\nPartner, Sheppard Mullin LLP<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel Dvoskin, Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor, University of Arizona Medical School<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelli M. Evans, Esq.<\/strong><br \/>\nAlmeda County Superior Court Judge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marvin Haiman<\/strong><br \/>\nChief of Staff, Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ayesha Hardaway<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Professor and Director of the Social Justice Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Co-Director of the Social Justice institute, Director of the Criminal Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Harrison<\/strong><br \/>\nCommissioner, Baltimore Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracie Keesee, Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>\nCo-founder and Senior Vice President of Justice Initiatives, Center for Policing Equity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ernest C. Luster<\/strong><br \/>\nLieutenant, New Orleans Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Noel<\/strong><br \/>\nChief of Police, Knoxville Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle Outlaw<\/strong><br \/>\nCommissioner, Philadelphia Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Rahr<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector, Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cody Robinson<\/strong><br \/>\nDetective, Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine A. Sanderson, Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor and Chair of Psychology, Amherst College<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ervin Staub, Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, and Founding Director of the Peace and Violence Program<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Thomas, JD<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector of Public Safety and Homeland Security, City of New Orleans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julio Thompson, Esq.<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Attorney General and Civil Rights Unit Director, Office of the Vermont Attorney General<\/p>\n<p><strong>B. J. 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