Episode 156: Public Safety Requires Community Part I
How do we grapple with gun violence? Who is responsible for public safety? L. Joy is answering those questions and more with this series, Public Safety Requires Community. This episode is based around a new report by Annie E. Casey Foundation. It details interventions implemented in two cities, Atlanta and Milwaukee, that have shown promising results in preventing gun homicides. Markasa Tucker-Harris, Alfred Garner, II, and Ade Oguntoye, who are doing work on the ground in those cities, come to the front of the class to share their work, tips and strategies to get us #CivicallyEngaged.
Our Guests:
Markasa Tucker-Harris is an activist, an abolitionist, a connector & collaborator, a community engagement guru and the Executive Director of Milwaukee’s African American Roundtable (AART). She helped co-found the LiberateMKE campaign in 2019, which is working to increase investments in communities and spur a more equitable city budget. She received her BA from Grambling State University in mass communications.
Alfred Garner, II joined CHRIS 180 in 2016 and is responsible for programs in the City of Atlanta’s NPU-V community, including recruiting and training residents to facilitate community trauma response networks and Healing Circles. Alfred serves as the Program Manager of the second At-Promise Youth & Community Center and manages the Cure Violence Atlanta Program.
Alfred has an extensive history of working to improve the lives of children and families in the Atlanta community, and has worked for the Department of Family and Children Services, Atlanta Public Schools, Fulton County Schools and Communities in School.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Albany State University where he became a member of the Phi Alpha Honor Society. Alfred has a Master’s degree in Social Work from Clark Atlanta University, where he also served as an adjunct professor at the Whitney M. Young School of Social Work.
Ade Oguntoye is a program associate who supports neighborhood transformation and community safety strategies for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Atlanta Civic Site. He received his BA from Emory University in Economics and Psychology. He received his MA in Social Work/Social Policy from Columbia University and is a current doctoral student at Walden University for his PhD in Social Work. He interned at the United Nation in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) working on issues related to youth globally and organizing the World Youth Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2001.
Homework:
Read: Annie E. Casey Foundation report: Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies: Lessons From Atlanta and Milwaukee https://www.aecf.org/resources/improving-community-safety-through-public-health-strategies and get to know the foundation’s work
Learn more about the African American Roundtable, Inc. https://www.hawamke.org/aart-liberate-mke/ and LiberateMKE https://www.liberatemke.com/
Lean more about CHRIS180 https://chris180.org/
Check out research website Gun Violence Archive for statistics https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Find out if organizations in your area are using the CURE Violence model. Send L. Joy an email at joy@sundaycivics.org tell here what’s going on in your community.
