Upcoming Events

September 13-19, 2008 -- IAOHRA-NAHRW Joint Conference, Motor City Casino Hotel, Detroit, MI

Past Events

April 24-26, 2008 -- Executive Session Meeting, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Executive Session on Human Rights Commissions and Criminal Justice, 2006-2008
April 25, 2008

Back row:

Timothy Bellamy, Chief of Police, City of Greensboro Police Department
Sandra Webb, Senior Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Jerrold Levinsky, University of Massachusetts Amherst
William Finney, Chief of Police (Retired), St. Paul Police Department
Christine Cole, Executive Director, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management,
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Reverend Markel Hutchins*
Tyrone Terrill, Director, City of Saint Paul Department of Human Rights
Mitchell Brown, Director, Department of Public Safety, City of Columbus
Leonard Matarese, Director, Public Safety Services, International City/County Management Association

Front row:

Yvonne Johnson*, Mayor, City of Greensboro
Marea Beeman, Senior Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Richard Pennington*, Chief of Police, Atlanta Police Department
Kenneth Saunders*, Legal Counsel/EEO and Diversity Officer for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Angela Arboleda*, Director of the Civil Rights and Criminal Justice Project, National Council of La Raza
Christopher Stone, Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
James Stowe*, Executive Director, Columbus Community Relations Commission
Larry Bagneris*, Executive Director, City of New Orleans Human Relations Commission
Patricia Gatling*, Commissioner and Chair, New York City Commission on Human Rights

* = Executive Session member.

Members not pictured:

Anthony Batts, Chief of Police, Long Beach Police Department
Norman Orodenker, Chair, Governor's Commission on Prejudice and Bias in Rhode Island
Robin Toma, Executive Director, Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations

September 14-16, 2007--Executive Session Meeting, Hilton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. Special guest: Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC)--Majority Whip for the 110th Congress and former South Carolina Human Affairs Commissioner.

September 16-21, 2007--Joint Annual Conference of the National Association of Human Rights Workers (NAHRW) and the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies (IAOHRA), Hilton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.

March 15-17, 2007--Executive Session Meeting, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

October 19-21, 2006--Executive Session Meeting, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

September 12-15, 2006--The International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies (IAOHRA) 58th Annual Conference, Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

July 8, 2006--Presentation: The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) 30th Annual Training Conference and Exhibition, Cinergy City, Cincinnati, Ohio.

May 11-13, 2006--Executive Session Meeting, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

January 5-7, 2006--Executive Session Meeting, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.