Violence Fatality Review Committee Dr. Joseph Richardson Confirmation Resolution of 2026

MURIEL BOWSER
MAYOR
March 23, 2026
The Honorable Phil Mendelson
Chairman
Council of the District of Columbia
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsy lvania Avenue , NW , Suite 504
Washington , DC 20004
Dear Chairman Mendelson:
In accordance with section 2 of the Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-
142; D.C. Official Code § 1-523.01), and pursuant to section 3043 of the Fatality Review Committee
Amendment Act of 2018, effective October 30, 2018 (D.C. Law 22-168, D.C. Official Code § 5-
1431.02), I am pleased to nominate the following individual:
Dr. Joseph Richardson
Chapel Lane
Hyattsville, MD 20742
for reappointment as representative from an organization providing a hospital-based violence
intervention program member of the Violence Fatality Review Committee, for a term to end October
12, 2028.
Enclosed, you will find biographical information detailing the experience of the above-mentioned
nominee, together with a proposed resolution to assist the Council during the confirmation process.
I would appreciate the Council’s earliest consideration of this nomination for confirmation. Please
do not hesitate to contact me, or Steven Walker, Director, Mayor’s Office of Talent and
Appointments, should the Council require additional information.
Sincerely,
Muriel Bowser
Mayor
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3 at the request of the Mayor
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6 A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
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10 IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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15 To confirm the reappointment of Dr. Joseph Richardson to the Violence Fatality Review
16 Committee.
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18 RESOLVED , BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
19 resolution may be cited as the "Violence Fatality Review Committee Dr. Joseph Richardson
20 Confirmation Resolution of 2026".
21 Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the reappointment of:
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23 Dr. Joseph Richardson
24 Chapel Lane
25 Hyattsville, MD , 20742
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27 as a as representative from an organization providing a hospital-based violence intervention
28 program member of the Violence Fatality Review Committee, established by section 3042 of the
29 Fatality Review Committee Amendment Act of 2018, effective October 30, 2018 (D.C. Law 22-
30 168; D.C. Official Code§ 5-1431.01), for a term to end October 12, 2028.
31 Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution,
32 upon its adoption, to the nominee and to the Mayor.
33 Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
CurriculumVitae
PersonalInformation
LastName,FirstName,MiddleName,ContactInformation
Richardson,JosephB.,Jr.
rtmentofAfricanAmerican& AfricanaStudies

AcademicAppointmentsatUMD.
FoundingCo-Director
ThePROGRESSInitiativeattheUniversityofMarylandPreventGunViolence:Research,Empowerment,Strategies& Solutions
CollegeofBehavioralandSocialSciences
UniversityofMaryland
(September2023-Present)
Professor
DepartmentofAfricanAmerican& AfricanaStudiesCollegeofBehavioralandSocialSciencesUniversityofMaryland(September2019-Present)
Professor(JointAppointment)DepartmentofAnthropology
MedicalAnthropology
CollegeofBehavioralandSocialSciences
UniversityofMaryland
(September2019-Present)
Professor(SecondaryAppointment)DepartmentofEpidemiologyandPublicHealthDivision of PreventiveMedicine
SchoolofMedicineUniversityofMarylandBaltimore(September2019-Present)
2
MPower Professorship
University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State
University of Maryland College Park
University of Maryland Baltimore
(November 2021-Present)
P
rofessor
Joel and Kim Feller Endowed Professor of African American Studies and
Anthropology
Department of African American & Africana Studies and the
Department of Anthropology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(September 2019-June 2023)
A
cting Chair
Department of African American & Africana Studies
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(July 2020-June 2021)
A
ssociate Professor
Department of African American Studies
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(September 2013-August 2019)
A
ssociate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Anthropology of Health
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(January 2017-August 2019)
A
ssociate Professor (Secondary Appointment)
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Division of Preventive Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
University of Maryland Baltimore
(January 2019-September 2019)
A
ssistant Professor
Department of African American Studies
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(September 2006-August 2013)
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I.C. Administrative Appointments at UMD

Co-Director
The PROGRESS Initiative at the University of Maryland
Prevent Gun Violence: Research, Empowerment, Strategies & Solutions
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland
(September 2023-Present)

Executive Director
Transformative Research and Applied Violence Intervention Lab (TRAVAIL)
Judge Alexander Williams Center for Education, Justice and Ethics
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland
(June 2019-Present)

Lead Epidemiologist, Violence Intervention Program (VIP)
Center for Injury Prevention and Policy
University of Maryland Medical System
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, MD
(January 2019-Present)

Founding Director, Capital Region Violence Intervention Program
University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center
Department of Trauma Services
Cheverly, MD
(January 2016-June 2019)

Chair, Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG)
Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE)
University of Maryland-College Park, MD
(September 2012-Present)

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland-College Park, MD
(September 2008-Present)

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I.D. Other Employment

Senior Fellow
Black and Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence
Community Initiatives
Oakland, CA
(June 2023-Present)

Co-Chair
DC Violence Fatality Review Committee
DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Washington, DC
(March 2022-Present)

Executive Director
The Change Agents LLC
Bryans Road, MD
(October 2018-Present)

Assistant Research Professor
Chapin Hall Center for Children
University of Chicago
(September 2005-August 2006)

Adjunct Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
Chicago State University
(June 2004-August 2006)

I.E. Educational Background

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Newark, NJ
Doctorate of Philosophy in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2003)

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Newark, NJ
Master of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice (1992)

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, VA
Bachelor of Arts in African and African American Studies (1990)

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I.F. Continuing Education

MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Atlanta, GA
NIMH Clinical Research Scholars Training Program in Mental Health, Substance
Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Correctional Healthcare
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
(Summers June 2008-August 2010)

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Chapel Hill,
NC
NIMH Clinical Research Scholars Training Program in Mental Health, Substance
Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Correctional Healthcare
Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases
(Summers June 2008-August 2010)

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Consortium on Chicago School Research
Urban Education Institute
(September 2003-August 2005)

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES (NDRI), New York, NY
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship,
Behavioral Science Research Training Program in Drug Abuse
(January 1995-December 2000)

I.G. Professional Certifications, Licenses, and Memberships

Advisory Board Member, Sandy Hook Promise Research Roundtable (January 2025-
Present)
Advisory Board Member, Penn Injury Science Center (October 2024-Present)
Advisory Committee Member, Physicians for Human Rights, (February 2023-August
2024)
Advisory Board Member, Safe Streets Board for Prince George’s County, MD
(August 2023-Present)
Advisory Board Member, Identifying and Reducing Inequalities in the Effects of
Firearm Policies, RAND Gun Policy in America (July 2023-Present)
Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Black and Brown Collective: Community Solutions to
Gun Violence (April 2023-Present)
Board of Directors, Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms
(December 2022-Present)
DC Peace Academy Academic Advisory Committee (November 2022-Present)
Member, 120 Initiative to Reduce Gun Violence, Consortium of Universities of the
Washington Metropolitan Area (September 2022-Present)
Co-Chair, Planning Committee National Research Conference on Firearm Injury
Prevention (February 2022-Present)
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Advisory Member, Gun Violence Prevention Research Roundtable Advisory
Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics (February 2022-Present)
Member, Building Blocks DC (BBDC) Scientific and Expert Advisory Board
(December 2021-Present)
Mentor, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(May 2021-Present)
Member, PRAXIS, Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, University of
Chicago School of Medicine (August 2020-Present)
Member, John Jay Research Advisory Group on Preventing and Reducing
Community Violence (July 2020-Present)
Member, Research Advisory Committee for New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
(January 2021-Present)
Member, Research and Evaluation, The Healing Alliance for Violence Intervention
(December 2020-Present)
Member, Advisory Subcommittee for Biden-Harris Transition Team on Gun Violence
Prevention (December 2020)
Member, Police Violence Commission-International Society for Research on
Aggression (August 2020-Present)
Co-Chair, District of Columbia Mayor’s Office, Violence Fatality Review Committee
(March 2022-Present)
Mayoral Appointee, Committee Member, District of Columbia Mayor’s Office,
Violence Fatality Review Committee (October 2019-March 2022)
Advisory Board Member, Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory
Board,
Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP)
(January 2019-Present)
Board Member, Alliance of Concerned Men, Inc.
(January 2019-Present)
Advisory Board Member, Smart Re-Entry Task Force, Prince George’s County
Health Department and Prince George’s County Department of Corrections
(2017-2018)
Advisory Board Member, Project Change: Supporting Male Survivors of Violence,
DC Office of Victims Services and Justice Grants
(2017-Present)
Member, Ford Foundation Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Well Being of
African American Men
(2010-Present)
Member, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Network
(2012-2019)
Member, Under-Represented Minority Faculty Strategic Advisory Board, Annie E.
Casey Foundation
(2013-2014)
Member, Healing Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI)
(2014-Present)
Member, National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health
(2014-Present)
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Member, American Public Health Association
(2014-Present)
Member, Association of Black Sociologists
(2011-Present)
Board Member, Brady Campaign & Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
(2013-2016)
Co-Chair, HIV/STI Workgroup, Prince George’s County Health Action Coalition
(2013-2016)

II. Research, Scholarly, Creative and/or Professional Activities
II.A. Books (Include full citation information and ISBN)

II.B. Chapters
II.B.1. Books

Wical, W., & Richardson, J. (2024). Broadening the Scope of Hospital-Based
Programs to Prevent Youth Gun Violence. The Future of Youth Violence
Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy and Research (Edited by Paul Boxer
and Raphael Travis, Jr), Rutgers University Press.

Wical, W., & Richardson, J. (2022). Application: Critical Research Theory as a
Frame for Health Research with Young Black Fathers Who Survive Violent
Injury. Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methodologies: A Dynamic
Approach, Springer International Publishing, New York, NY.

Richardson, J., & Bullock, C. (2020). Hospital-Based Violence Prevention
Programs: From the Ground Up. Why We Are Losing The War On Gun
Violence In The United States. Eds, Marie Crandell, Stephanie Bonne, Jennifer
Bronson & Woodie Kessel, Springer Publishing. New York, NY.

Gilbert, K., Ray, R., Byrd, C., Richardson, J., & Johnson, O. (2018). The Matter
of Lives Underneath Black Male Skin: Using Theory and Media to Explore the
Case of “Justifiable Homicides” for Black Males, Research in Race and Ethnic
Relations: Inequality, Crime and Health among African-American Males, Eds,
Marino Bruce and Darnell Hawkins. Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley,
United Kingdom.

Richardson, J. (2010). The Emerging Role of the African-American Uncle in the
Lives Single-Female Headed Households and At-Risk African-American Male
Youth. Social Work with African-American Males: Health, Mental Health and
Social Policy. Ed, Waldo E. Johnson. Oxford University Press. New York, NY.

Smith, E., Richardson, J. Belue, R. (2009). Homicide and Violence among
African-American Youth: From Epidemic to Endemic? In Health Issues in the
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Black Community 3rd Edition. Eds., R. Braithwaite, S. Taylor and H. Treadwell.
Jossey-Bass Publishing. San Francisco, CA.

Richardson, J. (2005). Social capital and the impact of violence among early
adolescent African American males, Research in Race and Ethnic Relations. 12:
131-170.

II.C. Refereed Journals
II.C.1. Refereed Journal Articles
Wical, W., Marineau, L., Baker, S., Strong, B., Lovelady, N., & Richardson, J.
(2025). Violent firearm injury and homelessness: Examining the experiences of
Black men participating in hospital-based violence intervention programs.
American Journal of Men’s Health, May-June 1-6. DOI:
10.1177/15579883251343966
Wical, W., Strong, B., & Richardson, J. (2025). The experiences of Black men
who survived a gunshot wound and were treated with a colostomy. Public Health
Reports, 1-7. DOI: 10.1177/00333549251316808

Richardson, J. & Wical, W. (2024). Trapped in violence, Journal of Adolescent
Health, 845-846. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.09.007

Chaudhary, M., Zakrison, T., & Richardson, J. (2024). The link between state
carceral violence and firearm homicide, JAMA Surgery, DOI: 10.1001/jama-
surg.2024.1644

Zhu, J., Cukier, M., & Richardson, J. (2024). Nutrition facts, drug facts and
model facts: Putting AI into Practice in Gun Violence Research, Journal of the
American Informatics Association, 1-8, doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae102

Garcia, A.E., Gill, B.P., Richardson, J.B, Patton, D.U., Strong, B., Nwakanma,
C.C., & Kaufman, E.J. (2023) Analysis of social media involvement in violent
injury, JAMA Surgery, DOI:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.4995

Stey, A., Ghneim, M., Gurney, O., Santos, A., Rattan, R., Abahuje, E., Baskaran,
J., Nahmias, J., Richardson, J., Zakrison, T., Baily, Z., Haut, E., Chaudhary, M.,
Joseph, B., Zarzaur, Z., Hendershot, K. (2023). Creation of standardized tools to
evaluate reporting in health research: Population Reporting of Gender, Race,
Ethnicity & Sex (PROGRES), PLOS Glob Public Health, DOI:
10.1371/journal.pgph.0002227

Lovelady, N., Curran, G., Richardson, J., Wilson, M., & McBain, S. (2023). A
fea
sibility study for the implementation of a hospital-based violence intervention
program in the rural South, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 7(1):
45-45, DOI:10.1017/cts.2023.229
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Webster, D., Ric hardson, J., Meyerson, N., St. Vil, C., & Topazian, R. (2023).
Observations and recommendations based on a review of research on the effects
of hospital-based violence intervention programs on risks for future violence, The
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 704(1): 137-
157, https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162231173323

Aguilar, N., Wical, W., Orozco, J., Chaudhary, M., Bullock, C., & Richardson,
J. (2023)
. Silent suffering: Understanding the experiences of Black caregivers of
violently injured men, Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1086/725432
Richardson, J. (2022). The co-sign: The credible messenger and the challenges
with conducting gun violence research, Anthropology Now, 14:51-62,
doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2022.2119789
Fischer, K., Traynor, T., Stryckman, B., Richardson, J., Buchanan, L., &
Dezman, Z. (2022). Illicit fentanyl exposure among victims of violence treated at
a trauma center, Journal Trauma and Acute Surgery, 283: 937-944, DOI:
10.1016/j.jss.2022.10.027
Chaudhary, M., & Richardson, J. (2022). Violence against Black lives matter
protestors: A Review, Current Trauma Reports, 8:96-104,
DOI: 10.1007/s40719-022-00228-2
Wical, W., Harfouche, M., Lovelady, N., Aguilar, N., Ross, D., & Richardson, J.
(2022). Exploring emergent barriers to hospital-based violence intervention
programming during the COVID-19 pandemic, Preventive Medicine, DOI:
10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107232

Harfouche, M., Walton, E., Richardson, J., Scalea, T. (2022). Implementation of
an outpa
tient violence intervention program to increase service uptake. Prevention
Science, DOI: 10.1007/s11121-022-01428-7

Huang AK, Campbell P, Chaudhary M, Soklaridis S, Miller D, Dinizulu S,
Stolbach B, Cosey Gay F, Washington S, Olivera Perez H, Chalmers K, Tessema
F, Henry M, Slidell M, Richardson J, Bailey Z, Owens T, Wilkins E, Burgest V,
Hardaway C, Francis MX, Asom A, Lopez Hinojosa I, Roggin J, Hamzat I,
Zakrison T. (2022). We’re playing on the same team: Communication
(Dis)connections between trauma patients and surgical residents. The Journal of
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003663.

Ric
hardson, J. (2021). “No CAP”: Reflections on the intersectionality,
positionality and experiences of navigating race as a Black male criminologist.
Race and Justice, Special Issue, BLM in the Academy: Black Scholars’ Personal
Accounts, DOI: 10.1177/21533687211011211
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Boxer, P., Brunson, R., Gaylord-Harden, N., Kahn, K., Patton, D., Richardson,
J., Rivera, L., Smith-Lee, J., Staller, M., Krahe, B., Dubow, E., Parrott, D., &
Algrim, K. (2021). Addressing the inappropriate use of force by the police in the
United States and beyond: A behavioral and social science perspective,
Aggressive Behavior, DOI: 10.1002/ab.21970

Nahmias, J., Zakrison, T., Haut, E., Gurney, O., Joseph, B., Hendershot, K.,
Ghneim, M., Stey, A., Hoofnagle, M., Bailey, Z., Rattan, R., Richardson, J.,
Santos, A., & Zarzaur, B. (2021). Call to action on the categorization of sex,
gender, race and ethnicity in surgical research, Journal of the American College of
Surgeons, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2021.04.025

Richardson, J., Kottage, N., Wical, W., Chaudhary, M., Galloway, N., &
Cooper, C. (2021). The challenges and strategies of Affordable Care Act
navigators and in-person assisters with enrolling uninsured, violently injured
young Black men into healthcare insurance coverage, American Journal of Men’s
Health, DOI: 10.1177/15579883211005552

Richardson, J., Wical, W., Kottage, N., Galloway, N., & Bullock, C. (2020).
Shook ones: Understanding the intersection of nonfatal violent firearm injury,
incarceration and traumatic stress among young Black men, American Journal of
Men’s Health, DOI: 10.1177/1557988320982181

Richardson, J., Wical, W., Kottage, N., Galloway, N., & Bullock, C. (2020).
Sta
ying out the way: Perceptions of digital non-emergency transportation
services, barriers and access to care among young Black male survivors of firearm
violence. Journal of Primary Prevention, DOI: 10.1007/s10935-020-00611-2

Wical,
W., Richardson, J., & Bullock, C (2020). A credible messenger: The role
of the violence intervention specialist in the lives of young Black male survivors
of violence. Violence and Gender, 7(2): 1-4. DOI: 10.1089/vio.2019.0026
Smith, M.E., Sharpe, T.L., Richardson, J., Pahwa, R., Smith, D., DeVylder, J.,
(2019). The impact of secondary exposure to gun violence fatality on mental
health outcomes in four urban United States settings, Social Science & Medicine,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.soc scimed. 2019.112587.

St. Vil, C., Richardson, J., & Cooper, C. (2018). Methodological considerations
for research with Black male victims of violent injury in an urban trauma unit.
Violence and Victims. 33(2): 383-396. DOI10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-17-00065

Griffin, R., Richardson, J., Kerby, J, & McGwin, G. (2017) A de-compositional
analysis of firearm-related mortality in the United States, 2000-2014. Preventive
Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.10.031

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Byrd, W.C., Gilbert, K., & Richardson, J. (2017). The vitality of social media for
establishing a research agenda on Black lives and the movement. Ethnic and
Racial Studies. 10.1080/01419870.2017.1334937

Richardson, J., St. Vil, C., Sharpe, T., Wagner, M., & Cooper, C. (2016). Risk
factors for recurrent violent injury among Black men. Journal of Surgical
Research. 204(1): 261-266.

Richardson, J., St. Vil, C., Wish, E., & Cooper, C. (2016). On papers:
Perceptions of synthetic cannabinoid use among Black males under criminal
justice supervision. Health and Justice. 4(1): 1-10. DOI 10.1186/s40352-016-
0032-z

Richardson, J., St. Vil, C., & Cooper, C. (2015). Who shot ya? How emergency
departments can collect reliable police shooting data. Journal of Urban Health.
DOI:10.1007/s11524-015-0008-7

Richardson, J. & St. Vil. C. (2015). “Rolling Dolo”: Navigating the code,
violence and desistance over the early adolescent life-course. Ethnography.
(DOI): 10.1177/1466138115609624

Richardson, J., & St. Vil, C. (2015). Putting in work: Black male joblessness,
violence, crime and the code of the street. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men.
3(2): 71-98.

Robillard, A.G., Spencer, S. M., & Richardson, J.B. (2014). Expanding the
Afr
ican-American Studies paradigm to include health: A novel approach to
promoting health equity. Journal of African-American Studies. DOI
10.1007/s12111-014-9292-7

Ric
hardson, J., Van Brakle, M. & St. Vil, C. (2014). Taking boys out of the
hood: Exile as a parenting strategy for African-American male youth. New
Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 143: 11-31.

Richardson, J., Johnson, W., & St. Vil, C. (2014). I want him locked up: Juvenile
confinement as a parenting strategy for pre-delinquent African-American male
youth. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. DOI: 10.1177/0891241613520453

Richardson, J. & Van Brakle, M. (2013). The everyday struggle: Social capital,
youth viol
ence and parenting strategies for urban, low-income Black male youth.
Race and Social Problems. 5(4): 262-280. DOI: 10.1007/s12552-013-9103-0

Ric
hardson, J., Brown, J., & Van Brakle, M. (2013). Pathways to early violent
death: The ‘voices’ of serious violent youth offenders. American Journal of
Public Health. DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2012.301160

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Khan, M., Rosen, D., Epperson, M., Goldberg, A., Hemberg, J., Richardson, J.,
& Perriman, T. (2013). Adolescent criminal justice involvement and sexually
transmitted infection in a nationally-representative US sample. Journal of Urban
Health. 90(4): 717-728.
R
ichardson, J., & Robillard, A. (2012). The least of these: Chronic exposure to
violence and HIV risk among African-American male violent youth offenders
detained in an adult jail. The Journal of Black Psychology. DOI:
10.1177/0095798412447645
R
ichardson, J. (2012). Beyond the playing field: Coaches as social capital for
inner-city adolescent African-American males. Journal of African-American
Studies. 16(2): 171-194.
R
ichardson, J & Van Brakle, M. (2011). At wits end: A qualitative study of
African-American parenting strategies, social capital, the juvenile justice system
and mental healthcare for at-risk youth. Journal of Correctional Healthcare.
17(4): 319-328.
R
ichardson, J., Brown, J., Van Brakle, M., & Godette, D. (2010). Qualitative
insights on the HIV risk behaviors among violent youth offenders. Journal of
Offender Rehabilitation. 49 (8): 520-535.
R
ichardson, J. (2009). Men do matter: Ethnographic insights on the socially
supportive role of the African-American uncle in the lives of inner-city African-
American male youth. Journal of Family Issues. 30: 1041-1069.
H
atcher, S., Toldson, I., Godette, D., & Richardson, J. (2009). Mental health,
substance abuse, and HIV disparities in correctional settings: Practice and policy
implications for African Americans. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and
Underserved. 20(2): 6-16.
R
ichardson, J. (2008). Contextualizing juvenile re-entry for young African-
American males: From prison yard to schoolyard. Journal of Social Policy and
Public Management. 14(2): 21-32.
U
nder Review
D
astoor, J., Thomas, A., Slocum, J., Regan, S., Stone, L., Richardson, J., Mason,
M., Johnson, J., Lin, K., & Stey, A. (2025). Investigating Chicago’s 2016 surge in
firearm violence through Chicago community-based organizations: A qualitative
study.
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II.D. Published Scientific Reports and Conference Proceedings

Contributing Author, Reducing Violence Without Police: A Review of Research
Evidence, Submitted to Arnold Ventures by the John Jay College Research
Advisory Group on Preventing and Reducing Community Violence. (November
2020)

External Reviewer, “Health Systems Interventions to Prevent Firearm Injuries
and Death: Proceedings of a Workshop” for the Health and Medicine Division of
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (December
2018)

II.E. Conferences, Webinars, Workshops, and Talks

II.E.1. Invited Talks

Speaker, Closing Remarks, Training and Mentorship Program Launch Event, The
Black & Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence, The Study
at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (July 2025)

Plenary Panelist, Equitable and Community-Driven Approaches to CVI Research,
Giffords 2025 Community Violence Intervention Conference, Los Angeles, CA
(June 2025)

Presenter, Presentation of Draft Framework, Community-Engaged Research
Framework Workshop, Black & Brown Collective for Community Solutions to
Gun Violence, Washington DC (May 2025)

Instructor, The Epidemic of Gun Violence and Trauma Workshop, Social Justice
Boot Camp: Building a Brighter Future, The Judge Alexander Williams Jr Center
for Education, Justice & Ethics, Stamp Student Union & The Nyumburu Cultural
Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (May 2025)

Invited Speaker, Doing the Work: Understanding CVI Workers Perceptions of
Violence Interruption in the District of Columbia, DC ONSE Kickoff Meeting for
VI Organizations Leadership Teams, DC Office of Neighborhood Safety &
Engagement, Washington DC (May 2025)

Panelist, Connecting Research and Advocacy More Effectively, Community
Justice Advocacy Summit & Congressional Meeting Day, Washington DC (May
2025)

Invited Webinar Speaker, DC Youth Advocacy Training Program Webinar,
Washington DC (April 2025)

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Expert Witness Testimony, Public Roundtable on Councilmember Pinto’s Peace
DC Plan: Merger of the District’s Violence Intervention Initiatives, Council of the
District of Columbia, Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, Brooke
Pinto-Chair, John A. Wilson Building, District of Columbia (April 23, 2025)
I
nvited Speaker, The Scope of the Issue, CAP-VIP Gun Violence Summit, UM
Capital Region Medical Center, Conference Center, Largo, MD (April 2025)
G
uest Speaker, Crafting Effective Solutions to Gun Violence. Live Talk Session,
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD (April 2025)
M
oderator, Ethical Considerations in the Evolving Field of Firearm Research,
JAMA Summit: Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms, JAMA Network Offices,
Chicago, IL (March 2025)
G
uest Instructor, Module 4: Analyzing CVI Impact, Community Engagement &
Organizing, CVI Leadership Academy, Harris School of Public Policy at the
University of Chicago, Baltimore, MD (March 2025)
P
anelist, Protecting Public Safety: The Impact of Gun Violence on America’s
Children and Communities, Washington Post LIVE, Washington DC (March
2025)
S
peaker, Doing the Work: CVI Workers Perceptions of the Cure Violence Model
and Community Centered Violence Interruption Models, Sponsored by ON
TARGET, University of Connecticut ARMS Center: Advancing Research,
Methods and Scholarship in Gun Injury Prevention (ARMS), Virtual Presentation
(March 2025)
S
peaker, Intervening with Gun Injury Victims, Congressional Briefing:
Preventing Gun Violence, Sponsored by the Center for Evidence-Based Crime
Policy George Mason University and Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation, Dirksen
Senate Office Building, US Capitol, Washington DC (February 2025)
K
eynote Speaker, The Intersection of Structural Violence, Community Violence,
Trauma and Community Violence Interventions, Connecticut Children’s and the
City of Hartford 2025 HVIP Summit, Hartford, CT (February 2025)
I
nvited Participant, Sandy Hook Promise Research Roundtable, New York, NY
(January 2025)
M
oderator, Oral Session 31: Firearm Injury Prevention Among Adolescent and
Pediatric Populations, 2024 National Research Conference for the Prevention of
Firearm-Related Harms, Seattle, WA (December 2024)
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Presenter, Doing the Work: CVI Workers Perceptions of the Cure Violence
Model and Violence Interruption Models, Exploring Community-Based
Approaches to Reducing Gun Violence, 2024 National Research Conference for
the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms, Seattle, WA (December 2024)
I
nvited Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Digital Storytelling, Narrative Change
and Healing for Young Black Men Survivors of Community Firearm Violence,
Methods Seminar Series, Firearm Injury and Policy Research Program (FIPRP),
University of Washington (November 2024)
P
resenter, We Can Heal Ourselves: Peer Healing Circles for Black Men Survivors
of Violence Firearm Injury in Baltimore, Panel: Gunshot Survivorship:
Navigating Personal Care, Family and Safety, 2024 ASC Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, CA (November 2024)
P
anelist, Life After the Gunshot: A Place Based Approach Through Community
Engaged Research in the Nation’s Capital, Panel: Rutgers at 50: Assessing the
Evolution of Crime and Place Research, 2024 ASC Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, CA (November 2024)
P
anelist, The Use of Arts & Storytelling to Prevent Firearm Injury, Yale
University School of Public Health, New Haven CT (November 2024)
2024
Awardee and Grand Rounds Presenter, Life After the Gunshot: Digital
Storytelling, Narrative Change and Healing for Young Black Survivors of
Firearm Violence (Webinar), Mass General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry,
Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (CDIB), Francis J. Bonner MD
Diversity Award, Boston MA (October 2024)
W
ebinar Guest Speaker, Gun Violence, Structural Violence and Social Murder:
Understanding Community Violence, Interventions and Trauma Among Young
Black Men Living in the National Capital Region, Institute for Health Equity
Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, IHER Health Equity Seminar
Series (October 2024)
P
anelist, CBI in the Real World: Implementation Opportunities and Challenges,
Symposium on Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Violence Prevention,
Violence Reduction Center, University of Maryland, College Park MD (October
2024)
E
xpert Witness Testimony, Public Hearing: The Office of Neighborhood Safety
and Engagement’s Oversight of Violence Intervention Grants, Council of the
District of Columbia, Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, Brooke Pinto
(Chair), Washington DC (October 7, 2024)
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Panelist, Leveraging Data to Drive Violence Prevention Programming and
Impact, Building and Supporting a Comprehensive Public Safety Ecosystem-CU
and Community Justice, Cities United 11th Annual Convening VIP Agenda,
Seattle, WA (October 2024)
I
nvited Speaker, Public Health Summit: The Intersection of Structural Violence,
Community Violence, Trauma and Community Violence Intervention (CVI)
Among Young Black Men, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Fay W.
Boozman College of Public Health and Philander Smith University, Little Rock,
AR (September 2024)
I
nvited Speaker, The Perfect Storm: The Intersection of Structural Violence,
Community Violence, Trauma and Community Violence Intervention (CVI)
Among Young Black Men in the Nation’s Capital, University of Arkansas
Medical Sciences, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Grand Rounds,
Inaugural Public Health Summit, Little Rock AR (September 2024)
F
acilitator and Presenter, Leveraging Data to Drive Violence Prevention
Programming and Impact, Gun Violence Prevention Network Meeting 2, CF
Leads-Community Foundations Leading Change, Greater Milwaukee Foundation,
Milwaukee, WI (September 2024)
P
anelist, Making An Impact Through Faculty Careers, Promise Summer Success
Institute, Trailblazers: Building Impactful Careers, University of Maryland
Baltimore County Campus (August 2024)
P
lenary Keynote Speaker, Gun Violence and Social Murder: Understanding
Structural Violence, Community Violence and Trauma among Young Black Men
Living in the National Capital Region, International Society for Research on
Aggression (ISRA) World Meeting 2024, The Ludwig-Maxmillians University,
Munich, Germany (August 2024)
P
anel Moderator, The Case for Equitable and Community Engaged Research to
Address Gun Violence, Launch Event Black & Brown Collective for Community
Solutions to Gun Violence, Washington DC (July 2024)
P
resenter, Community Safety Task Force Meeting, Horton’s Kids, Washington
DC (July 2024)
I
nvited Speaker, Disinvestment, Structural Violence and Gun Violence in the
District of Columbia, Potomac Conference, Regional Resiliency: Meeting Our
Public Safety Challenges Together, The Greater Washington Board of Trade,
Greater Washington Partnership, Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments and the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan
Area, Catholic University, Washington DC (July 2024)
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Panelist/Panel Organizer, I Want the Help to Look Like Me: The Development
and Implementation of a Culturally Responsive Peer Healing Model,” 2024
Giffords CVI Conference, Los Angeles, CA (June 2024)

Moderator, National and Local Models for Supporting Professional Development
in the Field of Violence Intervention, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council for
the District of Columbia, Washington DC (May 2024)

Presenter, Representing Youth Survivors of Gun Violence: Lessons from the
Research and the Treatment Professionals Working to Break the Cycle of Harm
Among Victims of Gun Violence (with Maryland Public Defender Ian Augarten),
The Maryland Office of the Public Defender’s Justice 4 All 2024 Annual
Conference, Cambridge, MD (May 2024)

Panelist, Penn LDI Virtual Seminar: Evidence Driven Approaches to Preventing
Firearm Deaths, University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health
Economics, Philadelphia, PA (May 2024)
URL: https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/voids-in-scientific-
evidence-slow-efforts-to-curb-firearm-violence/

Presenter, Poster Presentation, Prevent Gun Violence: Research, Empowerment
Strategies & Solutions (PROGRESS) with Kessel, W., Dravis, M., Rodriguez, T.,
Wood, L., BSOS Research Showcase: Inequality Research Hub, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD (May 2024)
URL: https://research.umd.edu/articles/umd-behavioral-and-social-sciences-
showcase-features-research-
inequality?utm_source=Publicate&utm_medium=email&utm_content=...&utm_c
ampaign=240510+-+EMAIL

Convening Facilitator, White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
(WHOGVP), PROGRESS Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD (April 2024)
URL: https://bsos.umd.edu/research/progress-event-24apr2024

Guest Speaker, The Intersection of Structural Violence, Community Violence,
Trauma and Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Among Young Black Men
in the Nation’s Capital, The Lawrenceville School Spring 2024 Capstone Series,
Lawrenceville, NJ (April 2024)

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Structural Violence, Community
Violence, Trauma and Community Violence Intervention (CVI) in the Nation’s
Capital, The Gun Violence Solutions Faculty Working Group, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (April 2024)

Guest Speaker and Facilitator, Breakout Session: Screening and Q&A for the
Documentary Film Life After the Gunshot, New York State SNUG Street
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Outreach 2024 Annual Conference Reducing Gun Violence Healing
Communities, Albany, NY (April 2024)
R
esource Team Facilitator and Presenter, Leveraging Data to Inform Violence
Prevention, CF Leads Gun Violence Prevention Network Meeting 1, Center for
American Progress, Washington DC (April 2024)
Guest Speaker, Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Programs and the
Current and Potential Relationships between CVIs and Law Enforcement,
Policing and Leadership in Multifaceted and Multicultural Communities: A
Single Country Project for Brazil, International Visitor Leadership Program: US
State Department, College Park, MD (April 2024)
P
ane
list, Community Engaged Injury Research and Practice: Learning and
Growing the Field Together, SAVIR Technical Assistance Workshop, 2024
SAVIR Annual Conference: Advancing Injury Prevention Through Community-
Engaged Research, Raleigh, NC (April 2024)
P
resenter, Poster Presentation: Mobilizing Social Media for Violence Prevention:
Perspectives from Philadelphia Violence Prevention Professionals (Weiss, J.,
Patton, D., Richardson, J., Belfiglio, A., Carrie-Yvonne, B., Kaufman, E), 2024
SAVIR Annual Conference: Advancing Injury Prevention Through Community-
Engaged Research, Raleigh, NC (April 2024)
G
uest Speaker, Social Justice and Leadership Panel, 4-H Extension Program,
University of Maryland Extension, College Park, MD (April 2024)
P
anelist, Addressing Gun Violence Through Equitable Research and
Collaboration, Health Action Summit Presented by Kaiser-Permanente,
Washington DC (April 2024)
URL: https://healthactionsummit2024.splashthat.com/#g-311339706
E
xpert Testimony, Public Hearing: The Structure of Violence Intervention
Agencies in the District, Bill 25-695, The Safe Neighborhoods Amendment Act
of 2024, Council of the District of Columbia, Committee on the Judiciary and
Public Safety, Washington DC (April 2024)
URL: https://dc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=28&clip_id=8800
M
oderator, Innovative Approaches to Evaluation for Hospital-Based Violence
Intervention Programs, CVIPI Grantee Conference, Chicago, IL (April 2024)
P
anelist, Preventing Gun Violence: Promising Public Health Approaches, Harvard
T.h. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April
2024)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlHTn1jePp8
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Convening Facilitator, Research Breakout Session, CVI Action Plan Convening,
Chicago, IL (April 2024)
G
uest Speaker, Greenbelt Elementary Career Fair, Greenbelt, MD
(March 2024)
G
uest Speaker, The Intersection of Structural Violence, Community Violence,
Trauma and Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Among Young Black Men
in the Nation’s Capital, Mass General Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds,
11th Harry E. Ford III, MD & Margaret Henehan Lecture on Psychiatic Treatment
of Minority and Underserved Populations, Boston, MA
(March 2024)
G
uest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot, Penn Injury Science Center Trainee
Learning Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
(March 2024)
S
peaker, Life After the Gunshot: Community Engaged Research and Community
Violence Intervention in the Nation’s Capital, Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker
Series, Vera Institute of Justice, Washington DC
(February 2024)
S
peaker, Management from the Ground Up: Building a Hospital Violence
Intervention Program, Operations and Management + Capstones, CVI Leadership
Academy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Washington DC
(February 2024)
P
anelist, Healthy Children: Addressing Social Needs to Improve Health
Outcomes, Social Determinants of Health-Course Number 280134, University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
(January 2024)
M
oderator, Panel 1: Chasing the Money, A How-to Session for Local Advocates
& Nonprofit Organizations Pursuing Grant Dollars, Panel 2: Lock Out: Limiting
Youth’s Access to Firearms, Inaugural Prince George’s County Gun Violence
Survivors Week Action Summit, Hosted by Congressman Glen Ivey-Maryland’s
Fourth District, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
(January 2024)
P
anelist, Public Safety in the District of Columbia, Council of the District of
Columbia, Convened by the Office of Kenyan McDuffie, DC Councilmember at
Large, American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC
(December 2023)
P
anelist, Safety in Three Neighborhoods: Learning from Research, Community
Safety as a Social Determinant of Health: How to Create Safe Communities a
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Workshop, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Keck Center of the
National Academies, Washington, DC
(December 2023)
M
oderator, Picking Up the Pieces: The Long-Term Impact of Gun Violence, 9th
Annual GVP Summit, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC
(December 2023)
G
uest Speaker and Panelist, PLCY 214-Investing and Reimagining Philanthropy,
iGIVE: Teaching, Leadership, Innovation and Social Change, School of Public
Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (November 2023)
S
ymposium Moderator, Supporting the Frontline Through Community Healing:
Advancing Science on Violence Intervention Outreach and Trauma Exposure,
2023 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms,
Chicago, IL (November 2023)
P
anelist, Advancing Equitable Research on Community Violence Intervention:
Challenges, Best Practices, and Implications for Policy and Practice, 2023
National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms,
Chicago, IL (November 2023)
D
iscussant, Panel Title-Reducing Firearm Injury and Death Through Improved
Policy, 2023 APPAM Fall Conference, Atlanta, GA (November 2023)
V
irtual Panelist, Paths Toward an Ethics of Solidarity in Participatory Action
Research, Research Roundtable, The American Studies Annual Meeting,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada (November 2023)
P
anelist, Regional Gun Violence Reduction, 2023 Coalition of Urban and
Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) Annual Conference, Washington, DC
(October 2023)
P
anelist, Community Violence Interventions, 18th Annual Frank Harry
Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, Reporting on Gun Violence:
Engaging the Public on the Issues, Hosted by the Center for Media, Crime and
Justice and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY (October 2023)
P
anelist, Violence Within Systems: Don’t Shoot the Messenger, 2023 HAVI
Conference Faculty Workshop, Moderated by Sherah Liverpool, Featuring HAVI
Training Faculty, Chicago, IL (September 2023)
G
uest Speaker, Gun Violence Research in Capital Region: Ethics, Responsibility
and Commitment to Community Engagement, University of Maryland President’s
Grand Challenges Course UNIV110, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
(September 2023)
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Keynote Speaker, Why the Black & Brown Collective? Black & Brown
Collective Soft Launch, Crown Family School of Social Work Library, University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL (July 2023)

Panelist, Translational Research Session: Grassroots Strategies for Reducing Gun
Violence (Funded by the MacArthur Foundation), 20th Annual Workshop: 20
Years of RDCJN: Celebrating the Past and Looking to the Future, Racial
Democracy Crime and Justice Network, Center for Law and Justice, Rutgers
University-Newark, Newark, NJ (July 2023)

Plenary Panelist, CVI Research and Evaluation: Opportunities, Challenges and
Implications for Policy and Practice, Community Violence Intervention
Conference 2023, Giffords Center for Violence Intervention, Los Angeles, CA
(June 2023)

Presenter, Life After the Gunshot: The Art of Digital Storytelling Gun Violence
and Trauma, Community Violence Intervention Conference 2023, Giffords Center
for Violence Intervention, Los Angeles, CA (June 2023)

Team Leader, Gun Violence Research Funding Advocate, Hill Day, Gun
Violence Prevention Research Roundtable, American Academy of Pediatrics,
Capitol Hill Visits with US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), House Minority
Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08), US House of Representatives Congressman
Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05), Capitol Hill, Washington DC (June 2023)

Invited Speaker, A Historical View of Violence Prevention in Baltimore, Break
the Cycle of Violence Summit, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (June 2023)

Invited Speaker, Opening Remarks, Ethics, Responsibility and Commitment to
Community Engagement, Community Engagement Roundtable Agenda,
Washington DC (June 2023)

Panelist, Gun Violence Impacts Everyone, Commission on the Social Status of
Black Men & Boys, Office of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), US
Capitol Building, Washington DC (May 2023)

Workshop Facilitator, Youth and Gun Violence, Social Justice Boot Camp, Judge
Alexander Williams Center for Education, Justice and Ethics, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD (April 2023)

Guest Speaker, Gun Violence, Trauma, Prevention and Intervention for Black
Boys and Young Black Men, HRTS 596A Human Rights Practice Program,
Professor Jennifer Carlson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (April 2023)

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Guest Speaker and Host, Countering Violent Crime Through Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion (DEI) Engagement with At-Risk Communities: A Project for
Canada, International Visitor Leadership Program, US Department of State,
College Park, MD (April 2023)

Invited Guest, Homicide Review Commission Convening, Center for Gun
Violence Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, MD (April 2023)

Panelist, Conversations and Connections: Violence Prevention, College of Public
Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (April 2023)

Guest Speaker, Crafting Effective Solutions to Gun Violence: Problem Solving
Seminar, Professor Daniel Webster, Department of Health Policy and
Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD (April 2023)

Panelist/Expert Testimony, Note of a Series of Public Roundtables on Gun
Violence Prevention and Reduction Initiatives in the District, Council of the
District of Columbia, Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, Chairwoman
Brook Pinto, Washington, DC (March 2023)

Panelist, 120 Initiative Gun Violence Reduction Conference, Community
Violence Intervention Models, Washington DC (March 2023)

Guest Speaker, Gun Violence, Trauma and Violence Prevention for Black Boys,
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Washington DC (February 2023)

Panelist, Opportunities to Advance Research and Data Quality to Address Firearm
Violence, Reducing Gun Violence in America: The Role of the Health Care
Sector and Community-Based Solutions, Sponsored by Kaiser-Permanente & The
HAVI, Washington, DC (January 2023)

Guest Speaker, Special Screening of Life After the Gunshot, Scribe Video Center,
Philadelphia, PA (January 2023)

Panelist, Gun Violence Research Roundtable Advisory Committee Virtual Capitol
Hill Visits with US Senator Chris Van Hollen, US House of Representatives
Congressman CA Dutch Ruppersberger, US House of Representatives
Congressman Steny Hoyer, US House of Representatives Congressman David
Trone, Washington DC (November 2022)

Keynote Speaker, Beyond the Field, UMD Homecoming Address, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD (October 2022)

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Panelist, A Public Health and Racial Justice Approach to Gun Violence, Yale
University, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT (October 2022)

Guest Speaker, Do Good: Strategic Vision for the UMB Center for Violence
Prevention, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (October 2022)

Guest Speaker, The Impact of Gun Violence: Understanding Structural Violence,
Community Violence and Trauma in the National Capital Region, Senior
Leadership Retreat, The Changing Higher Education Landscape: Demographics
for Student Success, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (September
2022)

Guest Speaker, The Impact of Gun Violence: Understanding Structural Violence,
Community Violence and Trauma in the National Capital Region, Research
Development Team, Maryland Office of the Public Defender, Annapolis, MD
(September 2022)

Workshop Instructor, Data and Analysis, DC Peace Academy for Community
Violence Intervention Workers, Washington, DC (August 2022)

Panelist, Intersection of Trauma with Mental Health: Impacts on Policy and Risk
Reduction, Baltimore Trauma Summit: Healthier Brains for a Healthier
Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (June 2022)

Moderator, Challenges Facing African-American Studies Departments in the Big
10, Big 10 Academic Alliance: African-American Studies Workshop, Hosted by
University of Maryland, College Park, MD (June 2022)

Keynote Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Understanding Structural Violence,
Interpersonal Violence and Community Trauma Through Digital Storytelling,
Gun Violence Research Center Day, New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (May 2022)

Guest Speaker, Youth, Community Violence and Trauma, DC Scores After-
School Program, Harriet Tubman Elementary School, Washington DC (May
2022)

Panelist, Youth Focused Violence Prevention Through Holistic and Community-
Based Approaches, Forging Alliances and Promoting Reform: Strategies to
Transform Policing, Address Violence and Support Youth At-Risk, Fair and Just
Prosecution Conference, Washington DC (May 2022)

Panelist, Centering Survivors: Addressing the Aftermath of Gun Violence, ROAR
Center, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD (May 2022)

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Keynote Speaker, Gun Violence Prevention/Solution Community Meeting,
Sponsored by Pennsylvania State Senator Anthony H. Williams, Philadelphia, PA
(May 2022)
P
anelist, Community-Based Participatory Research: Putting the Approach into
Practice, The HAVI Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Webinar
Spring 2022, The HAVI (April 2022)
G
uest Speaker, Screening of Life After the Gunshot, DC Office of Gun Violence
Prevention Team Summit, Washington DC (April 2022)
G
uest Speaker, Structural Violence, Interpersonal Violence and the Racial Wealth
Gap in Washington DC, Community Voices & Visioning: Healing After Harm,
Sponsored by Network for Victim Recovery of DC (NVRDC), Free Minds: Book
Club & Writing Workshop and Community Mediation DC, Washington DC
(April 2022)
P
anelist, Gun Violence Intervention: What Works and What We Don’t Know,
HFG At the Crossroads Forum, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York,
NY (March 2022)
G
uest Speaker, Career Day, Greenbelt Elementary, Greenbelt, MD (February
2022)
P
anelist, Gun Violence, 17th Annual Harry Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in
America at John Jay College, Justice at the Crossroads: Is the Reform Window
Closing?, John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Center on Media, Crime and
Justice and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY (February
2022)
P
anelist, We Can Save Lives: A Live Conversation with Senator Chris Van
Hollen, Sponsored by the Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence, Virtual
Webinar (January 2022)
P
anelist, Panel on Trauma & Trauma Informed Care, 7th Annual Gun Violence
Prevention Conference, Center for American Progress, Washington DC
(December 2021)
P
anelist, Anthropological Engagement with Policing: Legacies and Challenges,
Roundtable Discussion, 2021 Annual Meeting American Anthropological
Association, Baltimore, MD (November 2021)
G
uest Speaker, Structural Violence, Interpersonal Violence, and Trauma Among
Young Black Men in Washington DC, 43rd Annual WEB Du Bois Lecture,
Department of Africana Studies, Dresher Center for the Humanities, University of
Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (November 2021)
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Guest Speaker, Structural Violence, Interpersonal Violence and Trauma in the
Lives of Violently Injured Young Black Men in the Nation’s Capital, IU
McKinney School of Law Program on Law and State Government Fellowship
Symposium, Gun Laws and Gun Violence: State Governments Making a
Difference, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN (October 2021)

Panelist, What We Do and Don’t Know from Multidisciplinary Perspectives on
Law Enforcement and Healthcare, When Healthcare and Law Enforcement
Overlap Conference, University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics and University of Pennsylvania Medicine-Department of
Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA (September 2021)

Panelist, Frontline Workers and Researchers: Shaping the Way We Tell the Story
of the Work, HAVI Virtual Conference-Forging A New Era of Equity (September
2021)

Presenter, Black Men’s Mental Health: Healing From Complex Trauma and
Toxic Environments, Brain and Behavior Institute, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD (September 2021)

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Structural Violence, Interpersonal
Violence and Trauma Among Young Black Men in Washington DC, University
of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX (August 2021)

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Structural Violence, Interpersonal
Violence and Trauma Among Young Black Men in Washington DC, Sponsored
by the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Department of
Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, MD (July 2021)

Panelist, Briefing With Maryland State Delegate Brooke Lierman Addressing
Gun Violence in Maryland, Annapolis, MD (July 2021)

Panelist, Overview of the Concepts of Evidence-Based and Effectiveness,
Juvenile Justice Webinar Series, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council for the
District of Columbia, Washington DC (July 2021)

Panelist, Virtual Gun Violence Prevention Roundtable, Senator Chris Van Hollen,
Annapolis, MD (June 2021) Retrieve URL at https://de-
de.facebook.com/chrisvanhollen/videos/virtual-gun-violence-prevention-
roundtable/1124729158020654/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos

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Panelist, A Discussion on Community Trauma and How This Trauma Informs
Our Engagement with Survivors, Gun Violence Prevention Strategy Convening,
The Joyce Foundation, Chicago, IL (June 2021)

Expert Panelist, Gun Violence Prevention Focus Group, DC Council Office on
Racial Equity, Washington, DC (June 2021)

Expert Testimony, Briefing for Senator Chris Van Hollen, The Impact of
Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs in Violence Reduction in
Maryland, Maryland Violence Prevention Coalition, Baltimore, MD (May 2021)

Guest Speaker, Solutions That Work: Hospital-Based Violence Prevention and
Intervention, Maryland Press Event for Funding, Maryland Violence Prevention
Coalition, Baltimore, MD (April 2021)

Guest Speaker, Black Men’s Health Presentation, Department of Behavioral and
Community Health Seminar Series, School of Public Health, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD (March 2021)

Panelist, Community Trauma on the Ground: Experiences and Challenges of
Practitioners and Academics Working in Communities, Community Trauma and
Gun Violence Research Convening Via Zoom, Everytown for Gun Safety, New
York, NY (February 2021)

Panelist, Black Youth & Juvenile Justice: What Needs to Change? Black Law
Student Association, Catholic University School of Law, Washington DC
(February 2021)

Expert Testimony, Maryland House Bill HB 121, Harriet Tubman Community
Investment Act, Maryland House of Delegates, Annapolis, MD (January 2021)

Panelist, History of Policing and Its Relationship with Trauma, Criminal Justice
and Healthcare, MLK Holiday DC: Reimaging Public Safety Panel, Sponsored by
the District of Columbia Public Safety Committee, the MLK Holiday DC, the
District of Columbia Mayor’s Youth Leadership Alumni Association, Washington
DC (January 2021)

Pan
elist, Gun Violence as a Public Health Priority, Biden-Harris Health and
Human Services Transition Team, Centers for Disease Prevention and Control,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Washington DC
(December 2020)

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Structural and Interpersonal Violence
Among Young Black Male Survivors of Violent Injury, The Hopkins Center for
Health Disparities Solutions Annual Health Disparities Seminar Series,
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Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
(December 2020)

Guest Speaker, Violence as a Public Health Crisis in the District, DC Council
Police Reform Commission-Violence Reduction Committee, District of Columbia
City Council, Washington, DC (December 2020)

Guest Speaker, Violence as a Public Health Crisis in Maryland, Maryland Senate
Sub-Committee on Public Safety, Budget and Taxation, Annapolis, MD
(December 2020)

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: A Digital Storytelling Project on the
Impact of Structural and Interpersonal Violence and the Healing Process for
Young Black Men, The Bahai Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland
College Park (November 2020)

Guest Speaker, Racism and Health, Racism & Health Event-Preventative
Medicine Interest Group, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine,
Scranton, PA (November 2020)

Panelist, The Continuity of Criminalization: From Schools, To Streets, To
Prisons, Unequal Treatment and Enforcement, Parren J. Mitchell Symposium
Series, Critical Race Initiative, University of Maryland College Park (November
2020)

Panelist, Ain’t I a Victim: Giving Voice and Support to African-American Gun
Violence Survivors, National Center for Victims of Crime Workshop, National
Training Institute Virtual Conference. (November 2020)

Expert Testimony, Public Roundtable on “PR23-0990-Sense of the Council to
Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis in the District of Columbia Resolution of
2020,” Council of the District of Columbia-Committee on Health, District of
Columbia City Council, Washington, DC (November 2020)

Guest Speaker, Hospital Violence Intervention Programs and Relevant Research,
JPS Health Network Trauma Symposium, Fort Worth, TX (October 2020)

Panelist, Reimaging Police Stops Workshop Series, Measuring the Costs and
Benefits of Stops and What Have We Overlook? Georgetown University Law
Center. Washington DC (October 2020)

Guest Speaker, The Intersectionality of the Gun Violence Epidemic and the
COVID-19 Pandemic: Summoning the Youth Response, The Temple Sinai (DC)
Gun Violence Prevention Group. Washington DC (October 2020)

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Guest Speaker, Re-conceptualizing violence and justice: Non-law enforcement
approaches to address gun violence, Defund the Police: Discussions on the
meaning, efficacy and approaches. Washington Association of Professional
Anthropologists.
Washington, DC (September 2020)

Speaker, Behind the Bullet: The Intersection of Structural and Interpersonal
Among Young Black Male Survivors of Nonfatal Firearm Violence in
Washington, DC, Violence Fatality Review Committee, District of Columbia
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,
Washington, DC (July 2020)

Speaker, World Solidarity Webinar, Structural Violence and Racism in Black
America, University of Tehran, Faculty of World Studies, Tehran, Iran. (June
2020)

Panelist, Violence Prevention in the District of Columbia During COVID-19,
Hosted by Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie (Ward 5), Facebook Live, URL:
Facebook.com/KenyanRMcDuffie, Washington, DC (May 2020)

Expert Testimony, Maryland Violence Intervention Prevention Program Fund Bill
SB 822, Sponsored by House Delegate Brooke Lierman, Maryland House of
Delegates, Annapolis, MD (February 2020).

Panelist, Life After the Gunshot: Structural Violence, Interpersonal Violence and
Trauma among Young Black Men, Systematic Oppression as a Public Health
Crisis, Presented in Conjunction with the Exhibition of Shaun Leonardo: The
Breath of Empty Space, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
(February 2020)

Panelist, Law & Order: The Aftermath, District of Columbia Department of Parks
and Recreation (DPR), Washington DC (January 2020)

Guest Speaker, Gun Violence Prevention in Baltimore City, Inter-Professional
Education Course (IPE), University of Maryland School of Law, University of
Maryland School of Social Work, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Baltimore, MD (January 2020)

Keynote Speaker, Run Hope Work: Cohort #6 Commencement, Kaiser-
Permanente Convergence Center, Washington, DC (December 2019)

Panelist, NCA Spotlight Panel: Communicating Survival in Violent Times: A
Dialogue on the Intersections of Violence in Gendered, Sexual, Racial/Ethnic and
Class Contexts, National Communication Association 105th Annual Conference:
Communication for Survival, Baltimore, MD (November 2019)

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Panelist, Homicide, Genocide and Justice, When They Don’t See Us: A Global
Summit
On the Embodiment of Racism, Violence and Trauma, Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, MA (November 2019)

Expert Testimony, Life After the Gunshot, Hearing on Gun Violence as a Public
Health Crisis in Baltimore, Baltimore City Council Health Committee, Office of
Councilman Kristerfer Burnett, Baltimore, MD (October 2019)

Panelist & Moderator, Advancing Racial Equity in Criminal Justice Reform
Policy: Thriving for Freedoms, Racial Equitable Community Development
Symposium: Shaping Consciousness, Strengthening Communities and Powering
Outcomes, Brunn Conference Center, Baltimore, MD (October 2019)

Panelist, Organization Partnerships: Managing Research Collaborations Before,
During and Following the Field; Representation, (Self) Censorship and
Dissemination, Advancing Research on Conflict Annual Conference, Johns
Hopkins University of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC (August
2019)

Panelist, District of Columbia Comprehensive Elimination Strategies Task Force,
Homicide Reduction in the District of Columbia, Washington, DC (August 2019)

Case Competition Coach, 2019 Summer Institute on Gun Violence Prevention
Case Competition, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research
Scholars, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington
University. Washington, DC (July 2019)

Guest Speaker, Frontline Training and Research, Supporting Male Survivors of
Violence: Project Change, DC Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants,
Washington DC (July 2019)

Guest Speaker, Translating Ideas into an Intervention: Challenges and Successes
in Building a Hospital Violence Intervention Program, CUNY Graduate School of
Public Health & Health Policy, New York NY (June 2019)

Panelist, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Commission on Black Boys
and Young Black Men, Taking Action Against the Rise of Gun Violence in DC,
Old Council Chambers, Washington DC (May 2019)

Panelist, Conflict Resolution Manual Launch, A Panel Discussion on Violence
Prevention Through Training and Opportunities for Youth, Sponsored by the
Alliance of Concerned Men, School of International Service, American
University, Washington DC (April 2019)

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Guest Speaker, Gun Violence Prevention: National Research Collaboration
Summit, What We Need to Know About Society to Reduce Gun Fatalities and
Morbidity, University of Maryland School of Public Health. College Park, MD.
(April 2019)
P
anelist, Gun Violence Prevention Teach-In, Gun Violence Prevention: National
Research Collaboration Summit, University of Maryland School of Public Heath
(April 2019)
G
uest Speaker, Social Capital, Youth Violence, Trauma and Adolescent
Development Among Low-Income Young Black Males, Department of
Psychology, Child Psychology, American University. Washington, DC. (April
2019)
G
uest Speaker, Understanding and Assessing Conflict, School of Public and
International Affairs, College of Public Affairs, University of Baltimore (April
2019)
P
anelist, Action for the Prevention of Violence and Human Trafficking, Public
Health Research@Maryland, School of Public Health, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD. (April 2019)
K
eynote Speaker, The 20th National Conference for McNair Scholars and
Undergraduate Research, Creating a Global Impact: Scholarship, Leadership and
Excellence in the 21st Century, College Park, MD (March 2019)
G
uest Speaker, Community Conversations on Black Masculinity, The Brothers
Size Play, 1st Stage, Tysons Corner, VA. (February 2019)
P
anelist, Race and Policy Symposium, Examining the Determinants of Health
Equity in the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Government, Office of
Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyon McDuffie, RISE Demonstration Center.
Washington, DC. (January 2019)
G
uest Speaker, Social Capital, Youth Violence, Trauma and Adolescent
Development Among Low-Income Young Black Males, Department of
Psychology, Child Psychology, American University. Washington, DC.
(December 2018)
P
anelist, Conducting Rigorous Research Webinar, Center for Victim Research,
Washington, DC. (October 2018)
M
oderator, Impact of Gun Violence on the Health of Baltimore’s Residents,
Neighborhoods, Education and Economy, PATIENTS Day 2018, University of
Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD. (July 2018)
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Translating Ideas and Information Into An Intervention: Building A Hospital
Based Violence Intervention Program, National Organization for Youth Safety:
2018 Coalition Meeting in Partnership with the District of Columbia Trauma
Injury Prevention Coordinator’s Collaborative (DCTIPCC), Innovations in the
Field Panel, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Physicians Conference Center, Annandale,
VA. (June 2018)

Hope After Healing Violently Injured Black Boys and Young Black Men, Men’s
Health & the Urgency of Now Health Forum, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, South
Bowie Library, Bowie, MD. (April 2018)

Translating Ideas and Information Into An Intervention: Building A Hospital
Based Violence Intervention Program, Department of Anthropology, 28th Annual
Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (March 2018)

Translating Ideas and Information into an Intervention: Building A Hospital
Based Violence Intervention Program, Department of Health Behavior and
Policy, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
(February 2018)

Translating Ideas into an Intervention: Building A Hospital Based Violence
Intervention Program, Department of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public
Affairs, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. (December
2017)

Guest Speaker, Invisible Wounds Webinar: Violence, Trauma and Healing
Among Young Black Men, Child Fatality Review Committee: Training Retreat
and Orientation, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Government of the
District of Columbia. Washington, DC. (September 2017)

Invited Scholar, Smart Suite Researcher Practitioner Fellows Academy, Michigan
State University-School of Criminal Justice, Lansing, MI. (July 2017)

Guest Speaker, Black Males and Violence, Trauma Training Institute, DC Office
of Victims Services and Justice Grants, Washington, DC. (July 2017)

Guest Speaker, The Path to a Professor, College & Career Awareness Day,
Gywnn Park Middle School, Prince George’s County Public Schools.
Brandywine, MD
(June 2017)

Guest Speaker, Invisible Wounds: Violence, Trauma and Healing Among Young
Black Men, Child Fatality Review Committee: Training Retreat and Orientation,
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Government of the District of Columbia.
Washington, DC. (May 2017)
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Guest Speaker, Invisible Wounds: Violence, Trauma and Healing Young Black
Men, Symposium on Gun Violence in Black America, Centre for the Study of the
United States, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto,
CA. (May 2017)

Invited Scholar, Alan Alda for Communicating Science Workshop, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD. (October 2016)

Invited Scholar, RISE for Boys and Men of Color, Summer Meeting of Scholars,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. (August 2016)

Invited Scholar, Pathways to Behavioral Health Equity: Addressing Trauma in
Underserved Communities, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, Bethesda, MD. (July 2016)

Guest Speaker, Youth Violence Prevention and Intervention, Fairfax County
Juvenile Detention Center, Fairfax, VA. (July 2016)

Guest Speaker, Youth Empowerment Summit, Stand for Peace: Teen Violence on
the Metro, Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority, Washington,
DC. (May 2016)

Keynote Speaker, Invisible Wounds: Violence, Trauma and Healing Young Black
Men, Racism: In Sickness and In Health, 3rd Annual Parren Mitchell Symposium,
Critical Race Initiative, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland at
College Park. College Park, MD. (April 2016)

Guest Speaker, Who Shot Ya? How Emergency Departments Can Collect
Reliable Police Shooting Data, Department of Health Behavior, School of Public
Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Edge of Chaos, Birmingham, AL.
(April 2016)

Guest Speaker, On Papers: Exploring the Intersection of Synthetic Cannabinoid
Use and Criminal Justice Supervision among Violently Injured Young Black
Men, Research Seminar Series, School of Social Work, University of Maryland at
Baltimore. Baltimore, MD. (February 2016)

Guest Speaker, #Freddie Gray: Structural Violence in Baltimore, MLAW374:
Freddie Gray’s Baltimore, MLAW Programs, College of Behavioral and Social
Sciences, University of Maryland at College Park. College Park, MD. (February
2016)

Guest Speaker, How emergency departments can collect reliable police shooting
data. Sociology of Gun Violence SOC 497, Department of Sociology, University
of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. (February 2016)
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G
uest Speaker, On Papers: Exploring the Intersection of Synthetic Cannabinoid
Use and Criminal Justice Supervision among Violently Injured Young Black
Men, Department of Health Behavior Seminar, School of Public Health,
University of Alabama at Birmingham. Birmingham, AL. (December 2015)
G
uest Speaker, #Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of Structural and Interpersonal
Violence in Black Baltimore, Structural Violence in Philadelphia and Baltimore,
The Baha’i Chair for World Peace & The Critical Race Initiative, University of
Maryland. College Park, MD
(November 2015)
G
uest Speaker, The Intersection of Synthetic Cannabinoid Use and Criminal
Justice Supervision Among Violently Injured Young Black Men, Healthcare for
the Homeless. Baltimore, MD. (October 2015)
G
uest Speaker, New Jim Crow: African-Americans, Mass Incarceration and the
Prison Industrial Complex, Social Justice Workshop, Shiloh Baptist Church,
Washington, DC. (May 2015)
G
uest Lecturer, The Intersection of Synthetic Cannabinoid Use, Criminal Justice
Supervision and Violent Injury, Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (PREV
715), Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. (May 2015)
G
uest Speaker, Shook: The Intersection of Traumatic Stress, Substance Use and
Violent Injury among Young Black Men, Mental Health and Trauma: The Other
Side of Injury, Injury Prevention Conference Healing After Trauma: Mind, Body
& Soul, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. (May 2015)
G
uest Speaker, I'm on Papers: Analyzing the Intersection of Criminal Justice
Supervision and Synthetic Cannabinoid Use among Violently Injured Young
Black Men, Department of Sociology, Colloquium Series, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN. (April 2015)
G
uest Speaker, I'm on Papers: Analyzing the Intersection of Criminal Justice
Supervision and Synthetic Cannabinoid Use among Violently Injured Young
Black Men, Humanities 161, Gender and Justice, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN. (April 2015)
G
uest Speaker, On Papers: Analyzing the Intersection of Criminal Justice
Supervision and Synthetic Cannabinoid Use among Violently Injured Young
Black Men, Social Workers, Human Service Workers, Housing Counselors,
Homeless Counselors, University of Maryland Extension, College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, Baltimore, MD. (April 2015)
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Panelist, Intellectual Activism, Social Justice & Criminalization, The 2nd Annual
Congressman Parrin Mitchell Symposium, Critical Race Initiative, Department of
Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (April 2015)

Guest Speaker, Educational Research Presentation, On Papers: Synthetic
Cannabinoid Use Among Violently Injured Young Black Men, Maryland
Community Advisory Research Board (MD-CRAB), University of Maryland
Center for Health Equity, Public Health Day in Annapolis, Annapolis, MD.
(March 2015)

Panelist, Black Men Stand Up, Co-Sponsored by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity,
Department of African-American Studies and MICA, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD. (February 2015)

Invited Guest, Prince George’s County Police Department, Training and
Education Division, Police Trauma Kit Training, Upper Marlboro, MD.
(December 2014)

Panelist, Community Roots Town Hall on Police Brutality, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD. (December 2014)

Invitee, New Connections 8th Annual Research and Coaching Clinic, Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, New Orleans, LA. (November 2014)

Guest Speaker, I’m on Papers: Synthetic Cannabinoid Use among Violently
Injured Young Black Men, Collegium of Scholars Symposium Series, Center for
Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park,
MD. (November 2014)

Guest Speaker, ADVANCE, Advancing Faculty Diversity, The Tenure Process,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (October 2014)

Guest Speaker, Inside the Public Health Guild Series, University of Maryland-
School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Community Health.
College Park, MD. (September 2014)

Presenter, Exploring Recurrent Violent Trauma, Linkages to Care and HIV Risk
Related Behaviors among African-American Men, Paper presented at the 6th
Annual Community Empowerment Through Black Men Healing Conference,
Minneapolis, MN. (September 2014)

Panelist, Beyond Ferguson: Campus Town Hall, Sponsored by the Department of
African-American Studies, Colony Ballroom, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD. (September 2014)

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Presenter, Situating a Clinical Ethnography of Violent Injury among Young
African American Men in an Urban Trauma Unit, Patients Like Me-PA TIENTS
Summer Symposium, Cambridge, MA. (July 2014)

Guest Speaker, The New Jim Crow: African-Americans, Mass Incarceration and
the Prison Industrial Complex, Portz Seminar Series, Honors College, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD. (June 2014)

Guest Speaker, Pre-K to Prison Pipeline, Teach for America, Baltimore, MD.
(June 2014)

Guest Speaker, Cultural Competence and Diversity Training, University of
Maryland Campus Police Cadet Academy, University of Maryland, College Park.
(May 2014)

Symposium Organizer, Women of Color and Mass Incarceration, Department of
African-American Studies, Women’s Studies and the Consortium on Race,
Gender and Ethnicity, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (March 2014)

Moderator, Advancing Health Through a Racial Lens, Department of African-
American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (February 2014)
Panelist, 12 Years a Slave Panel Discussion, Sojourner Truth African American
Research Library, Oxon Hill, MD. (February 2014)

Speaker, Educating the Whole Child-One Student at a Time, Boys of Color,
Cultural Relevance and Alignment, Division of Student Services, Prince George’s
County Public Schools, College Park, MD. (November 2013)

Moderator, Screening of Fruitvale Station Q& A, Rise Above the Isms, Office of
Diversity and Inclusion, University of Maryland. (November 2013)

Keynote Speaker, WEB Dubois Society Inductee Ceremony, University of
Maryland College Park, MD. (November 2013)

Symposium Organizer, Pre-K to Prison Pipeline: Changing the Odds for Boys of
Color, Department of African-American Studies, University of Maryland
College Park, MD. (September 2013)

Panelist, Black America’s Second Amendment, Greater Washington Urban
League. Washington, DC. (May 2013)

Moderator, Mass Incarceration and the Enslavement of African-Americans, The
People’s Community Baptist Church, Silver Spring, MD. (May 2013)

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Guest Speaker, Social Justice and Community Activism Workshop on Gun
Violence in the DC Metropolitan Area and the Church’s Role in Healing Victims
of Gun Violence, Shiloh Baptist Church. Washington, DC. (April 2013)

Guest Speaker, How Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs Can Reduce
Recurrent Violent Injury, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Washington,
DC. (December 2012)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Connections Sixth Annual Symposium,
Princeton, New Jersey. (June 2012)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Connections Fifth Annual Symposium,
Princeton, New Jersey. (June 2011)

II.E.2. Other – Selected Academic Presentations

Moderator, Closing Ceremony, Keynote Speaker and Awards, 2022 National
Research Conference Firearm Injury Prevention, Washington DC (December
2022)

Moderator, Understanding & Addressing Disparities: Epidemiology and
Intervention-Part 1, Concurrent Oral Presentation, 2022 National Research
Conference Firearm Injury Prevention, Washington DC (December 2022)

Panelist, Science and Media, 2022 National Research Conference Firearm Injury
Prevention, Washington DC (December 2022)

Mentor, Mentoring Session, 2022 National Research Conference Firearm Injury
Prevention, Washington DC (December 2022)

Panelist, Shifting the Gun Violence Prevention Narrative, Equity Symposium,
2022 National Research Conference Firearm Injury Prevention, Washington DC
(November 2022)

Panelist, Overcoming Challenges Between Gun Violence Survivors and Law
Enforcement: Leveraging Victim Services Partnerships to Enhance Dignity and
Quality of Care, 2022 HAVI Virtual Conference (November 2022)

Panelist, Challenges and Successes of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention
Programming During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022 HAVI Virtual Conference
(November 2022)

Panelist, Gun Violence as a Social Determinant of Health, 28th Annual Thomas A.
Pitts Memorial Lectureship in Medical Ethics: Gun Violence and Public Health,
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (April 2022)

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Presenter, Effectiveness of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs,
ANNALS Authors Conference, University of Connecticut-Hartford, Hartford, CT
(April 2022)

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Understanding Structural Violence,
Interpersonal Violence and Community Trauma Through Digital Storytelling,
Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences,
University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX (February 2022)

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot A Digital Storytelling Project: Structural
Violence, Interpersonal Violence and Trauma among Young Black Men in the
Nation’s Capital, Community Health and Addiction Team (CHAT), University of
Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (February 2022)

Guest Lecturer, Healthy Children: Addressing Social Needs to Improve Health
Outcomes, Course Subject Area: Social Determinants of Health, Course Number
280134, University of Cincinnati-College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH (January
2022)

Pan
elist, Gun Violence Prevention and Intersectionality, Gun Violence Prevention
Through the Public Health Lens: History, Intersectionality and Interventions, Gun
Violence Webinar, American Public Health Association (August 2021)

Guest Speaker, Care of the Traumatically Injured Patient, The Effectiveness of
Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs and Structural Violence in the
ED, Grand Rounds, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of
Maryland-School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (July 2021)

Presenter, Structural Violence, Interpersonal Violence and Trauma in the Lives of
Violently Injured Young Black Men in Washington DC, International Congress of
Psychology Conference, Prague, Czech Republic (July 2021)

Panelist, Black Lives Matter in the Academy, Black Scholars’ Personal Stories:
Panel Discussion Based on a Special Issue of Race and Justice, Racial Democracy
Crime and Justice Network, Virtual Conference (July 2021)

Presenter, Black Men’s Mental Health: Healing from Complex Trauma and Toxic
Environments, Population Association of America Annual Meeting,
Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities (Including Bio-Social
Pathways), Virtual Conference, (May 2021)

Presenter, Shook Ones: The Biopsychosocial Model, Patient Centered Outcomes
Research (PCOR) and Traumatic Stress among Young Black Male Survivors of
Non-Fatal Firearm Violence, New Research in the Field, The Healing Alliance for
Violence Intervention (HAVI) Virtual Conference. (October 2020)

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Panelist, Student Council Forum Moving Forward Together: A Discussion About
Racism in America, The Universities at Shady Grove, Rockville, MD (June 2020)

Guest Speaker, Behind the Bullet: The Intersection of Structural and Interpersonal
Violence Among Young Black Male Survivors of Nonfatal Firearm Violence,
Grand Rounds, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of
Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. (May 2020).

Guest Speaker, The Impact of COVID on Vulnerable Communities: The Effect of
COVID on Gun Violence and Victimization, 30@8:30 Hosted by The Centre for
Research and Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB),
@thecribcommunity/Instagram Live, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
(April 2020)

Pane
l Moderator, Evaluating Vulnerability and Increasing Resilience in
Interdisciplinary Spaces, Department of Anthropology 30th Annual Colloquium,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (March 2020).

Guest Speaker, Life After the Gunshot: Gun Violence, Violent Injury, Criminal
Justice Involvement and Trauma among Young Black Men, When They Don’t
See Us: A Global Summit on the Embodiment of Racism, Violence and Trauma,
Boston College, Boston, MA. (November 2019).

Staying Out of the Way: Understanding Perceptions of Male Survivors of Violent
Injury and Frontline Staff Regarding Access to Program Services Using Digital
Transportation Services, Healing Justice Alliance Annual Conference: 10 Years
of Impact: Building Momentum Towards Healing and Justice, Sacramento, CA.
(September 2019).

The Role, Challenges and Best Practices of the Credible Messenger in a Hospital-
Based Violence Intervention Program, Healing Justice Alliance Annual
Conference: Treating the Symptom, Healing the Root. Denver, CO. (September
2018).

Invisible Wounds: Violence, Trauma and Healing Young Black Men, Community
Healing Strategies That Work Practice-Based and Evidence Based Trauma
Informed Approaches, ReCAST Grant Meeting, SAMHSA, Rockville, MD.
(January 2017).

Methodological Challenges in Conducting Research on Young Black Male
Victims of Violent Injury in an Urban Trauma Unit, Special Topics Meetings:
Babies, Boys and Men of Color, Society of Research on Child Development,
Tampa, FL. (October 2016).

Screening and Reporting Synthetic Cannabinoid Use in an Emergency
Department, Introducing the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS),
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The College on Problems of Drug Dependence 78th Annual Scientific Meeting,
Palm Springs, CA. (June 2016).
G
un Violence and the Effect on Young Black Males, Invisible Wounds: Violence,
Trauma and Healing Young Black Men, 15th Annual Youth Violence Prevention
Conference, Des Lee Collaborative Vision, Department of Criminology &
Criminal Justice, University of Missouri at St. Louis. St. Louis, MO. (April 2016).
T
he Invincibles: Violent Injury, Health Literacy and Familial Support among
Young Black Men in Baltimore, Society for Research on Adolescence
Conference, Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD. (April 2016).
Assessing the Role, Function and Challenges of ACA Navigator in Enrolling
Violently Injured Young Black Men into Health Insurance Coverage, 143rd
Annual Meeting and Exposition American Public Health Association, Chicago,
IL. (November 2015).
I
'm on Pa
pers: Analyzing the Intersection of Criminal Justice Supervision and
Synthetic Cannabinoid Use among Young Black Men Admitted to an Urban
Emergency Department for Violent Injury, Paper presented at Healthography:
American Public Health Association 142nd Annual Meeting & Expo, Black
Caucus of Health Workers, New Orleans, LA. (November 2014).
I’m on Papers: Synthetic Cannabinoid Use among Violently Injured Young Black
Men Under Criminal Justice Supervision, Paper presented at the National
Network of Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs, Diverse Roles and
Common Goals: Hospital-Community Partnerships to Reduce Violence and
Trauma, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. (September 2014).
The Gatekeepers: Perspectives of Frontline Staff in the Provision of Services for
Serious Violent Youth Offenders Detained in an Adult Jail, Paper presented at the
Innovation in Prisons Workshop, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of
California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. (April 2014).
A Methodological Conundrum: Situating A Clinical Ethnography of Violent
Injury in a Trauma Unit, Doing Ethnography, Paper presented at the 39th Annual
Mid-South Sociological Association Conference. Atlanta, GA. (October 2013).
Situating a Clinical Ethnography of Violent Injury among Young African-
American Men in an Urban Trauma Unit (Co-Presenter, Christopher St. Vil),
Violence: Context and Consequences, Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting
of the Association of Black Sociologists, Social (In)Justice and Health
Disparities: A Continuing Saga. New York, NY. (August 2013).
Panelist, Situating Risk, Home and Health: Qualitative Research Methods Across
Disciplines, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, University of Maryland,
College Park. (May 2013).
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Panelist, Empowerment Through Information: Librarianship for At-Risk and
Incarcerated Youth, iDiversity Event, iSchool-University of Maryland, College
Park. (April 2013).
Panelist, What is Tenure? 14th Annual National Undergraduate McNair Scholars
Conference, University of Maryland, College Park. (March 2013).
Panelist, Changing Demographics and Service to Changing Communities,
Symposium on Diversity and Library & Information Science Education,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (November 2012).
‘Putting in Work: The Intersection of Violence, Labor and the Code of the Street
among Serious Violent Youth Offenders,’ Paper presented at the Institute for the
Study of Race and Culture, 12th Annual Diversity Challenge Conference: What to
Do About Race and Culture and Violence, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
(October 2012).
“Putting in Work: Black Male Youth Joblessness, Violence and the Code of the
Street,” Paper presented at the 42nd Association of Black Sociologists Conference:
Embracing the Past, Impacting the Future: (Re) Establishing a Commitment to the
Tradition of Black Sociology, Denver, CO. (August 2012).

“Rolling Dolo: Trust and Mistrust Among Adolescent African-American Males,”
Paper presented at the 5th Annual Conference on Emerging Adulthood,
Providence, RI. (October 2011).

“Rolling Dolo: Trust and Mistrust Among Adolescent African-American Males,”
Paper presented at the Race, Gender and Identity Roundtable, 41st Association of
Black Sociologists Conference, Las Vegas, NV. (August 2011).

“Understanding the Intersection of Violent Trauma, HIV and the Criminal Justice
System Among African-American Men in Baltimore,” Paper presented at the
Black Male Symposium, University of Maryland. College Park, MD. (April
2011).

“What We Teach,” Invited Panelist, Diversity, Democracy and Higher Education:
A Colloquy, University of Maryland Office of the Associate Provost for Equity
and Diversity, College Park, MD. (April 2011).

“Risk Factors for Recurrent Violent Trauma among African-American Men,”
Paper presented at the Health Disparities in Boys and Men: Innovative Research
to Reduce Addiction, Trauma and Related Co-Morbidities Conference, National
Institute of Drug Abuse, Washington, DC. (November 2010).

“Taking Boys Out of the Hood: Ethnographic Insights on Parenting Strategies for
African-American Male Youth” Paper presented at the Ford Foundation Early
Career Scholars Network on Black Masculinity and Well-Being of African-
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American Men Conference, Chauncey Conference Center, Lawrenceville, NJ.
(November 2010).

Guest Speaker, An Ethnographic Study on the Health Risk Behaviors of African-
American Male Youth Offenders and the Implications for Successful Re-Entry,
Paper presented at the Friday Tea Symposium, Center for Diverse Families and
Communities, The College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania
State University, State College, PA. (November 2010).

Panelist, A Qualitative Study of HIV/AIDS Risk Behaviors among Title XVI
Youth Offenders Detained in the District of Columbia Jail, Paper presented at the
American Sociological Association Conference- Medical Sociology Roundtable
Session. Atlanta, GA. (August 2010).

Presenter, Man Children in an Un-Promised Land, Taking Boys Out of the Hood:
Ethnographic Insights on Parenting Strategies for African-American Male
Youth,” Paper presented at the Society of Research on Adolescence Conference.
Philadelphia, PA. (March 2010).

Presenter, A Qualitative Study of HIV/AIDS Risk Behaviors Among Title XVI
Youth Offenders Detained in the District of Columbia Jail, Paper presented at the
National Institute of Mental Health “Training the Next Generation of Mental
Health and HIV/AIDS Researchers Conference.” Bethesda, MD. October 2009.

Panelist, Juvenile Justice and the African-American Community: Reversing the
Trend, Thirteenth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African-Americans and
the Law, American University-Washington College of Law, Washington, DC.
(April 2009).

Panelist, Breaking Barriers: The Obama Administration, the 111th Congress and
the Future of School-Age Black Males, Office of the Senate Building,
Washington, DC. (April 2009).

Panelist, State of African-American Men in Washington DC and Baltimore,
University of Maryland at Eastern Shore. (October 2007).

II.F. Professional and Extension Publications
II.F.1. Reports and Non-Refereed Monographs

Richardson, J. (October 2014). My experience at the Patients Like Me site visit.
Patients News. University of Maryland-School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD

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II.G. Book Reviews, Notes, and Other Contributions

II.H. Completed Creative Works

Richardson, J., & Bullock, C. (April 2025). Life After the Gunshot: A Love
Story. Retrieved from URL, www.lifeafterthegunshot.com

Richardson, J., & Bullock, C. (August 2023). The Realist Sh!t I Never Wrote:
Urban Culture + Storytelling, Performed at the University of Maryland Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD. Retrieved from URL
https://posh.vip/f/5256?t=email

Richardson, J., & Bullock, C. (March 2021). Life After the Gunshot
Documentary.
Retrieved from URL, www.lifeafterthegunshot.com and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De5CP839gjs

II.I. Significant Works in Public Media
Specify the following: Title, Publication/Media Name, Contributors, Types (print,
online, broadcast, video, documentary)

Richardson, J., & Bullock, C. (April 2025). Life After the Gunshot: A Love
Story. Retrieved from URL, www.lifeafterthegunshot.com

Richardson, J., Watts, L., & Mitchell, R. (2024). ROAR Center Peer Healing
Circle. Short Documentary. Retrieved from URL https://roarcenter.org/get-
help/group-and-individual-therapy/

Richardson, J., & Bullock, C. (2021). Life After the Gunshot Documentary.
Retrieved from URL, www.lifeafterthegunshot.com and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De5CP839gjs

Ellis, A., & Richardson, J. (2014). Bullets Without Names. Short Documentary.
Retrieved from URL https://vimeo.com/92973477

II.I.1. TV/Radio Broadcast/Social Media/Podcast

Featured in Opinion: Violence Prevention Can’t Succeed Without Stable Funding.
By Maagiy Emery and Patricia Jewett, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Retrieved
from URL: https://www.startribune.com/opinion-violence-prevention-cant-
succeed-without-stable-funding/601353453
(May 14, 2025)

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Featured in Conversations with Dr. Chi, Hosted by Professor Chinyere Osuji,
Department of African-American and Africana Studies at the University of
Maryland, Retrieved from URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= DoI62I89Ig
(February 2025)

Featured in A Direct Attack on Science: Trump’s Return Is Rattling Gun Violence
Researchers, The Trace, Retrieved from URL
https://www.thetrace.org/2025/01/gun-violence-studies-trump-public-health/
(January 30, 2025)

Featured in Media’s Empathetic Coverage of Luigi Mangione Reveals an
Obsession With Humanizing White Male Suspects, The Guardian, Retrieved from
URL https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-
media
(December 21, 2024)

Featured in I Tell Her It’s Fireworks: How DC Shootings Affected 564 of 566
Schools, NBC I-Team News 4 Washington, Retrieved from URL
https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/i-tell-her-its-fireworks-how-dc-
shootings-affected-564-of-566-schools/3784685/
(December 10-11, 2024)

Featured in Gun Violence in America: The Root Causes and the Importance of
Data for Prevention Strategies, The Atlanta Voice, Retrieved from URL
https://theatlantavoice.com/gun-violence-summer-root-causes/
(August 23, 2024)

Featured in Two Killed, Child Injured in Shooting That Pushes DC Past 100
Homicides, Washington Post, Retrieved from URL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/07/18/dc-100-homicides-crime-
falls/
(July 18, 2024)

Experts on Camera, Dr. Joseph Richardson: Gun Violence in US Cities,
SciLine/AAAS, Retrieved from URL
https://www.sciline.org/public-health/gun-violence-in-the-us/
(July 2, 2024)

Featured in Thurgood Marshall’s Former School Reimagined With UMD’s Help,
Maryland Today, Retrieved from URL
https://today.umd.edu/thurgood-marshalls-former-school-reimagined-with-umds-
help
(July 1, 2024)

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Featured in Leaders Talk Solutions to Gun Violence at Greenbelt Park on
Anniversary of Mass Shooting During a Senior Skip Day, WUSA 9, Retrieved
from URL
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/leaders-address-gun-violence-on-
anniversary-of-mass-shooting-in-prince-georges-county/65-eb203db1-1368-4bc9-
8fe3-ef241a080515
(June 29, 2024)

Featured in Understanding Gun Violence, Mississippi Insight WJTV 12 News,
Retrieved from URL
https://app.criticalmention.com/app/#clip/view/17a78276-3fa1-473b-a15d-
a3e3b2714fcf?token=3e15cffe-5f6d-4323-9b59-310365373ad2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXcYnvHQ7E

https://app.criticalmention.com/app/#clip/view/8ed22aa3-0d3c-4489-bd24-
1dfaf2b3ad3a?token=d0a92360-2675-4e73-8ccd-a8846cbc3ab9
(June 7, 2024)

Featured Guest, DW Como Te Afecta, Por que las armas y la inseguridad dan
tanto miedo a los estudiounidenses, Retrieved from URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfTmcYscF0
(June 4, 2024)

Guest, Press TV’s Spotlight-Plague of Racism in the US, PressTV, Tehran, Iran,
Retrieved from URL
http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/125886
(August 28, 2023)

Guest, Press TV’s Spotlight-US Slavery Controversy, PressTV, Tehran, Iran,
Retrieved from URL
http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/125385
(July 25, 2023)

Featured in Unveiling the Harsh Realities: Teens From a Local Mentoring
Program Share Their Perspectives on Juvenile Crime by Brad Bell, ABC News 7,
Washington DC, Retrieved from URL https://wjla.com/news/local/prince-
georges-county-juvenile-crime-carjacking-youth-violence-jacobs-ladder-teens-
local-mentoring-program-university-of-maryland-authority-rules-schools
(July 7, 2023)

Guest, Latest US Mass Shootings Kills Two, Wounds Dozens in Baltimore,
PressTV, Tehran, Iran, Retrieved from URL
http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/124960
(July 3, 2023)

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Guest, Mass Shootings in the US, PressTV, Tehran, Iran, Retrieved from URL
http://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/124305
(June 1, 2023)
G
uest, Shadow Politics Podcast with US Senator Michael D. Brown, Retrieved
from URL https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shadow-politics-may-21-
2023/id718534331?i=1000614399916
(May 21, 2023)
G
uest, Spotlight-US Gun Violence and Racism, PressTV, Tehran, Iran, Retrieved
from URL https://www.urmedium.com/c/presstv/123036
(April 12, 2023)
G
uest, Why Black Children Bear the Brunt of Gun Deaths, And What Can Be
Done To Stop It, On Point, WBUR, Boston, MA, Retrieved from URL
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/04/03/why-black-children-bear-the-brunt-of-
gun-deaths-and-what-can-be-done-to-stop-it
(April 3, 2023)
G
uest, Listen: DC Residents Want a Community Led Approach to Address Gun
Violence, Morning Edition, WAMU 88.5 FM, Washington DC, Retrieved from
URL
https://wamu.org/story/23/03/14/dc-residents-want-a-community-led-approach-to-
address-gun-violence/
(March 14, 2023)
G
uest, Life After the Gunshot, Evening WURDS with Nick Taliaferro, WURD
Radio, 96.1 FM, Philadelphia, PA, Retrieved from URL
https://wurdradio.app.box.com/s/ziul9ttntad98qq07bhca18dd0ct1lzc
(January 19, 2023)
K
eynote Speaker, Beyond the Field, UMD Homecoming Address, Retrieved from
URL
https://homecoming.umd.edu/beyondthefield
(October 17, 2022)
F
eatured in Ricochet: An American Trauma-A PBS NewsHour Special Report,
Retrieved from URL https://www.pbs.org/video/ricochet-an-american-trauma-
o7vg3v/
(October 5, 2022)
G
uest, Spotlight-US Police Brutality, PressTV, Tehran, Iran, Retrieved from URL
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/07/04/685052/U-S--Police-Brutality
(July 4, 2022)
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Keynote Speaker, Gun Violence Prevention/Solution Community Meeting,
Sponsored by Pennsylvania State Senator Anthony H. Williams, Retrieved from
URL https://www.senatoranthonyhwilliams.com/sen-anthony-h-williams-hosts-
gun-violence-prevention-meeting
https://www.senatoranthonyhwilliams.com/sen-anthony-h-williams-gun-violence-
prevention-meeting-opening-remarks
(May 9, 2022)

Guest, Systemic Racism in the US, Spotlight, PressTV, Retrieved from URL
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/13/680273/Systemic-Racism-in-U-S-
(April 13, 2022)

Guest, Life After the Gunshot, Chicago Justice Podcast, Retrieved from URL
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-after-the-
gunshot/id1506526697?i=1000553443556 (March 9, 2022)

Featured in Analysis Shows Safe Streets Success Is Inconclusive: Program is
Poised to Get More Money, Fox 45 Baltimore, Retrieved from URL
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/analysis-shows-safe-streets-success-is-
inconclusive-program-is-poised-to-get-more-money (March 8, 2022)

Guest, Discussions on the Spirit of Trauma, Don’t Die Young Vlog, Retrieved
from URL https://www.dontdieyoungcares.com/spiritoftrauma (January 2022)

Guest, New GOP Mascot, We the People, Press TV, Retrieved from URL
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/12/02/671795/New-GOP-Mascot
(December 2, 2021)

Guest, Quality Policing Podcast with Host Peter Moskos, Retrieved from URL
https://qualitypolicing.com/qpp-54-joseph-richardson/
(November 5, 2021)

Guest, White House Releases Gun Violence Prevention Plan as Shootings Remain
High in Major Cities, Wisconsin Public Radio, Retrieved from URL
https://www.wpr.org/white-house-releases-gun-violence-prevention-plan-
shootings-remain-high-major-cities
(June 24, 2021)

Featured in Prince George’s County Murder Rate Doubles Over Last Year. Has
COVID Triggered a Spike? ABC7 News Washington, Retrieved from URL
https://wjla.com/news/local/prince-georges-county-homicide-rate-doubles-over-
last-year-has-covid-triggered-a-spike
(April 22, 2021)

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Featured in ‘Life After the Gunshot’ Documents the Impact of Hospital
Interventions After Gun Injury, Trauma, NPR: Here & Now, Retrieved from URL
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/04/07/life-after-the-gunshot-trauma
(April 7, 2021)

Featured in Don’t Become Like Your Friends: Docuseries Focuses on 10 Men
Who Survived Gun Violence in DC, NBC News 4 Washington, Retrieved from
URL https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dont-become-like-your-friends-
docuseries-focuses-on-10-men-who-survived-gun-violence-in-dc/2620178/
(March 25, 2021)

Guest, Your Brain & Trauma, Political Misfits Podcast, Retrieved from URL
https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/u-s-china-trade-barbs-military-
derails-a
(March 19, 2021)

Featured in It’s a War Zone: DC’s Gun Violence Takes Toll on Locals’ Mental
Health, WUSA9 News, Washington, DC, Retrieved from URL
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/washington-dc-gun-violence-takes-
mental-health-toll-on-locals/65-e8382f89-f926-4a41-b21f-e2324626439e
(December 29, 2020)

Executive Producer, Life After the Gunshot, Digital Storytelling Project and
Podcast (In Post-Production), Retrieved from URL
https://www.lifeafterthegunshot.com/
(August 2018-Present)

Executive Producer and Host, Working Class Intellectuals Podcast, Retrieved
from URL https://soundcloud.com/workingclassintellectuals
(August 2016-Present)

Producer, Short Documentary, Bullets Without Names, Retrieved from URL
http://vimeo.com/92973477
*Nominated for American Visions Award 2014.

Guest, Guns & America, Without Reliable Funding Violence Prevention
Programs Are At-Risk, WAMU 88.5, Retrieved from URL
https://gunsandamerica.org/story/20/08/31/violence-prevention-maryland-
funding-budget-trouble-pandemic/ (August 2020)

Guest, Weekend Protests, Police Dismantling Starts, the Lie of the Dem
Leadership, Hosted by Bob Schlehuber & Jamarl Thomas, Political Misfits
Podcast produced by Sputnik Radio, Retrieved from URL
https://sputniknews.com/radio-political-misfits/202006081079560248-weekend-
protests-police-dismantling-starts-the-lie-of-dem-leadership/ (June 2020)

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Guest, Starting a Conversation About Race-Part 2: Keeping the Discussion on
Track, Hosted by Jon Harper and Mandy Froelich, Teachers’ Aid Podcast
produced BAM Radio, Retrieved from URL
https://www.bamradionetwork.com/track/how-to-start-the-conversation-about-
race-part-2-keeping-the-discussion-on-track/

Guest, How to Start the Conversation About Race-Part 1: Race, Injustice,
Unconscious Bias, Hosted by Jon Harper and Mandy Froelich, Teachers’ Aid
Podcast produced by BAM Radio. Retrieved from URL
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bamradionetwork.com/track/how-to-
start-the-conversation-part-1-race-injustice-unconscious-
biases/&source=gmail&ust=1597590128249000&usg=AFQjCNEg42xEJV9-qd-
Zne1-vfNflm_MJQ (June 2020)

Guest, What’s Underneath Those Red Dots, Episode 46, Red, Blue & Brady
Podcast Hosted by J Janflone and Kelly Sampson. Retrieved from URL
https://www.bradyunited.org/podcast/episodes/46 (March 2020)

Executive Producer, Trauma City, Digital Storytelling Project
(August 2018-March 2019)

Guest, Shootings Spike in DC Over Memorial Day Holiday, By Any Means
Necessary Program Hosted by Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon, Sputnik
Radio, Retrieved from
URL https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/201905301075460603-how-
facebook-will-pick-the-next-president/ (May 2019)

Featured in Maryland Hospital Changing Lives of Gunshot Victims, NBC 4
Washington,
Retrieved from URL https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Maryland-
Hospital-Changing-Lives-of-Gunshot-Victims Washington- DC-479582353.html
(April 2018)

Featured in MD Teen Says Intervention Program Saved His Life After Being Shot
In His Home, WUSA 9 News, Washington, DC. Retrieved from URL
http://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/md-teen-says-intervention-
program-saved-his-life-after-being-shot-in-his-home/65-529974133 (March 2018)

Guest, Violence and Trauma, Black Men, Black Boys and Men: Changing the
Narrative, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at the New York
University Silver School of Social Work and the Community Technical
Assistance Center of New York. New York, NY. Retrieved from URL
http://mcsilver.nyu.edu/black-boys-and-men-changing-the-narrative#pod02
(January 2018)

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Guest, John Lewis, Donald Trump and Civil Rights, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation Radio (CBC Radio). Canada. (January 2017)

Guest, Who Shot Ya? A Novel Hospital Based Violence Intervention Program,
inSocialWork Podcast Series, University at Buffalo School of Social Work,
Retrieved from URL http://www.insocialwork.org/episode.asp?ep=205
(December 2016) *This episode was downloaded 1,350 times in the first week
(average downloads 500)

Guest, Neo-Nazis in Baltimore and Historical Traumas in Black America, By Any
Means Necessary Show Hosted by Eugene Puryear, Sputnik International Radio,
Retrieved from URL
http://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/20160819/1044428554/neo-nazi-
baltimore-historical-traumas-black-america.html (August 2016)

Guest, Police Shootings in the US and the Aftermath, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation Radio (CBC Radio). Canada. (July 2016)

Guest, Behind the Headlines-Endemic Structural and Gun Violence in America,
Hope and Wellness Podcast, Washington, DC, Retrieved from URL
http://blis.fm/hopeandwellness/57-behind-the-headlines-endemic-structural-and-
gun-violence-in-america/ (July 2016)

Guest, Violence and Race: A View From Local Hospitals, National Public Radio
(NPR), Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU 88.5, Washington, DC. Retrieved from URL
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2015-11-12/violence-and-race-a-view-from-
local-hospitals (November 2015)

Guest, Hospital Based Violence Prevention and Management, Hope and Wellness
Show, BLIS.FM, Washington, DC. Retrieved from URL
http://blis.fm/hopeandwellness/22-hospital-based-violence-prevention-and-
management/ (October 2015)

Guest, Race War-Dylann Roof’s Attack on the Black Church, CBC-Radio,
Canada (June 2015)

Guest, Baltimore Protests and Joseph Kent, In the Now, RT, Moscow, Russia
(April 2015)

Guest, World of Guns, In the Now, RT, Moscow, Russia (January 2015)

Guest, Panel Discussion on Modern Day Slavery, Radio 786, Capetown, South
Africa (February 2014)

Producer, ‘Every 80 Minutes,’ Public Service Announcement on Urban Gun
Violence in the City of Philadelphia. July 2013.
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Featured Scholar, 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, NBC News 4,
Washington, DC (August 2013)

Featured Scholar, Documentary Film, The More Effective Evil: The Impact of
President Obama on the Black Community and Humanity. (2013). Your World
News Films

Featured Scholar, Documentary Film, The Façade of the American Dream.
(2013). Retrieved from URL http://www.presstv.ir

Featured Speaker, Trayvon Martin 1,000 Campus Vigil, NBC News 4.
Washington, DC. (April 2012)

Guest, I Mix What I Like Show, Hosted by Dr. Jared Ball, Mass Incarceration in
the Age of Obama, WPFW, Pacifica Radio, Washington, DC (January 2012)

Featured Scholar, Documentary Film, Another Part of Me: Youth Views on Drugs
and Incarceration in Our Community. Educational Video Center. (2010)
Retrieved from URL http://www.evc.org/store/videos/another-part-me

II.I.2. Media Publications

Richardson, J. (October 17, 2024). The Nit and Grit of Street Outreach. Book
Review, Vital City, Retrieved from URL https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/in-
these-streets-reporting-from-the-front-lines-of-inner-city-gun-violence-josiah-
bates-review

Featured in How a Harris or Trump Presidency Could Affect Gun Policy,
Scientific American, Retrieved from URL
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-harris-or-trump-presidency-
could-affect-gun-policy/
(October 7, 2024)

Featured in Gun Violence in America: The Root Causes and the Importance of
Data for Prevention Strategies, Atlanta Voice, Retrieved from URL
https://theatlantavoice.com/gun-violence-summer-root-causes/
(August 23, 2024)

Featured in DC Violence Interrupters Hope Bribery Scandal Won’t Undercut
Their Efforts, Washington Post, Retrieved from URL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/20/trayon-white-bribery-
violence-interruption/
(August 20, 2024)

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Featured in Gun Violence in America: How BSOS Researchers Are Addressing a
Grand Challenge, Be The Solution Magazine, University of Maryland
(Summer 2024)
F
eatured in Laurel, MD. Recording Studio Shooting Sparks Plea for Change
Within Drill Rap Culture. By Brad Bell, 7News (WJLA, ABC), Retrieved from
URL https://wjla.com/news/local/laurel-maryland-recording-studio-shooting-drill-
rap-music-industry-gun-violence-lyrics-community-local-rappers-prince-georges-
county
(March 13, 2024)
F
eatured in Emerging Group of Researchers Is Changing Our Understanding of
Gun Violence. By Fairriona Magee, The Trace, Retrieved from URL
https://www.thetrace.org/2024/03/black-and-brown-collective-public-health/
(March 8, 2024)
F
eatured in Crime Skyrockets in the Nation’s Capital: Experts and Community
Members Debate What’s at the Bottom of the Trend. By Addie Offereins, World,
Retrieved from URL https://wng.org/roundups/crime-skyrockets-in-the-nations-
capital-1708546471
(February 21, 2024)
F
eatured in Transforming Care: How Healthcare Providers Can Respond to Gun
Violence. By Sarah Klein, Martha Hostetter and Alexandra Bryan, The
Commonwealth Fund, Retrieved from URL
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2024/jan/how-health-care-
providers-can-respond-gun-
violence?utm_campaign=Advancing%20Health%20Equity&utm_medium=email
&_hsmi=291492854&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-
8GcZQmCNKMI5tkhYWGC6FVbnEFWEiI7i8k9-nq2s_VB-
zP31NKUOBYAAqGfD7i1XZXc1pfMyH8OBgyepmrbLrd nJarg&utm source=
alert
(January 25, 2024)
F
eatured in What Can We Learn from the Nation’s Historic Decline in Murders?
By Champe Burton, The Trace, Retrieved from URL
https://www.thetrace.org/2024/01/murder-rate-us-cities-violent-crime-data/
(January 10, 2024)
F
eatured in The Nation’s Capital Is Falling Behind on Fighting Violent Crime
Here’s Why, By Grace Segers, The New Republic, Retrieved from URL
https://newrepublic.com/article/177907/violent-crime-crisis-washington-dc
(January 8, 2024)
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Featured in Homicides Are Falling in Other Major Cities. Why Are They So High
in DC? By Jenny Gathright, The DCist, Washington, DC, Retrieved from URL
https://dcist.com/story/23/12/29/dc-homicides-2023-highest-since-1997/
(December 29, 2023)

Featured in With Baltimore Homicides Dropping Below 300, Who Gets the
Credit? By Leo O. Sanderlin and Greg Morton, Baltimore Banner, Retrieved from
URL https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-
justice/baltimore-homicide-brandon-scott-police-
IJNWQD2U4JBQNIAYIXZIQQQKOQ/
(December 21, 2023)

Featured in Gun Violence Expert Elected to the National Academy of Medicine:
Joseph Richardson Jr. Becomes Record 69th UMD Faculty Member in National
Academies, In Maryland Today by Rachael Grahame. Retrieved from URL
https://today.umd.edu/gun-violence-expert-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-
medicine?utm_source=Publicate&utm_medium=email&utm_content=...&utm_ca
mpaign=231013+-+EMAIL
(October 11, 2023)

Richardson, J. Arms and the Men: Police Neglect Is a Major Reason Many
Young Black Men Carry Guns, Vital City Issue 5, Nuts and Bolts: Solving Gun
Cases, Retrieved from URL https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/police-neglect-
and-why-many-young-black-men-carry-guns
(September 2023)

Featured in They Were Wounded in a Mass Shooting. The Baltimore Police
Seized Their Belongings by Ben Conarck, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore, MD,
Retrieved from URL
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/brooklyn-
homes-shooting-victims-evidence-LJXD3OYAK5FZBECFFR3HDOQI2U/
(July 25, 2023)

Featured in After the Gun Trace Task Force Scandal, BPD Established New
Plainclothes Units. Are They More of the Same? Retrieved from URL
https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/baltimore-police-
department-plainclothes-district-action-team-units-gun-trace-task-force/
(May 2, 2023)

Featured in ‘Invest in People:’ Residents Call for More Mental Health, Trauma-
Focused Solutions to Gun Violence, Retrieved from URL
https://dcist.com/story/23/03/07/dc-gun-violence-roundtables-solutions/
(March 7, 2023)

Warnken, H., and Richardson, J. Opinion: Longer Prison Terms Won’t End Gun
Violence in Baltimore, Legislation Backed By State’s Attorney Would Harm
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Communities Without Deterring Violent Crime, Retrieved from URL
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/community-voices/opinion-longer-
prison-terms-wont-end-gun-violence-in-baltimore-
ZIHVLZVYTNCWRAEKZJ2FSRVPUI/
(February 20, 2023)

Featured in When Law Enforcement Alone Can’t Stop Violence, The New
Yorker, Retrieved from URL
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/when-law-enforcement-alone-
cant-stop-the-violence
(February 6, 2023)

Featured in Can Community Programs Help Slow the Rise in Violence,
Propublica, Retrieved from URL https://www.propublica.org/article/are-
community-violence-interruption-programs-effective
(January 30, 2023)

Featured in Gun Homicide: What to Know and Where to Go, The Center for Just
Journalism, Retrieved from URL https://justjournalism.org/page/gun-homicide
(December 2022)

Featured in 1 in 8 Victims of Gun Violence Taken to Baltimore-Area Hospitals is
a Child, A Grim Picture Made Worse by the Coronavirus Pandemic, Baltimore
Sun, Retrieved from URL https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/investigations/bs-
hs-gun-violence-affects-baltimore-area-children-20221117-
zkq7ritgvbf57mjzb3nvw53rr4-story.html (November 17, 2022)

Featured in Police Are Returning to an Old to Fight the Surge in Violence. But It
Needs a Rethink, TIME Magazine, Retrieved from URL
https://time.com/6227552/hotspot-policing-crime-effectiveness/ (November 2,
2022)

Featured in Research Roundup, MPower Professor Profile: Joseph B. Richardson,
Inaugural MPower Professor Forges Strategic Partnerships to Improve the Lives
of Black Victims of Gun Violence, Division of Research, University of Maryland,
Retrieved from URL https://research.umd.edu/articles/mpower-professor-profile-
joseph-b-richardson-phd-ma (September 30, 2022)

Featured in Life Under the Gun, Rutgers University Alumni Association, Alumni
Profiles, Retrieved from URL https://alumni.rutgers.edu/stay-connected/alumni-
news-and-stories/life-under-the-gun/ (September 23, 2022)

Featured in The Human Toll of Keeping Baltimore Safe, The Trace, Retrieved
from URL https://www.thetrace.org/2022/03/baltimore-safe-streets-shootings-
gun-violence-mayor-scott/ (March 3, 2022)

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Richardson, J., and Bullock, C. (December 9, 2021). To Understand Gun
Violence, Talk to People in the Trenches, The Appeal, Retrieved from URL
https://theappeal.org/gun-violence-reduction-research-black-market-homicide/

Featured Interview in View from the Trauma Center: Why Gun Violence Persists,
The Crime Report, Retrieved from URL
https://thecrimereport.org/2021/10/21/view-from-the-trauma-center-why-gun-
violence-persists/ (October 21, 2021)

Featured in Asahi Shimbun Globe+, Retrieved from URL
https://globe.asahi.com/article/14459419
https://globe.asahi.com/article/14460011
https://globe.asahi.com/article/14460012
(October 15, 2021)

Fea
tured in Asahi Shimbun Globe+, Retrieved from URL
https://globe.asahi.com/article/14409807 https://globe.asahi.com/article/14409807
(August 2021)

Featured in La Croix, Armes a` feu et violence: aux E`tats-Unis, le spectre d’un
e`te` meurtrier, Retrieved from URL https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Armes-
feu-violence-Etats-Unis-spectre-dun-ete-meurtrier-2021-06-30-1201164007 (June
30, 2021)

Richardson, J. (May 27, 2021). Using Storytelling to Explore Gun Violence and
Trauma. Report, Invisible Wounds: Gun Violence and Community Trauma
Among Black Americans, Everytown Research & Policy. Retrieved from URL
https://everytownresearch.org/dr-joseph-richardson-jr-using-storytelling-to-
explore-gun-violence-and-trauma/

Featured in Everytown Research & Policy Report, Invisible Wounds: Gun
Violence and Community Trauma Among Black Americans, Retrieved from URL
https://everytownresearch.org/report/invisible-wounds-gun-violence-and-
community-trauma-among-black-americans/#understanding-community-trauma
and https://everytownresearch.org/report/invisible-wounds-gun-violence-and-
community-trauma-among-black-americans/#traumatic-impact-on-black-adults
(May 27, 2021)

Featured in TERP Magazine at the University of Maryland, Trigger Guard:
Crossing the Boundaries Between Academia and the Streets, Professor Joseph
Richardson Jr. Seeks to Find a Way Out of Trauma for Young Black Men.
Retrieved from URL https://terp.umd.edu/trigger-guard/#.YAsNCGRKjCV
(Winter 2021)

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Featured in the Washington Informer, College Park Researcher Devoted to Plight
of African-American Males Shooting Victims, Retrieved from URL
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/college-park-researcher-devoted-to-plight-
of-african-american-male-shooting-victims/ (December 9, 2020)
S
angaramoorthy, T., & Richardson, J. (October 16 2020). Black Lives Matter
“Without Black People,” Inside Higher Ed, Retrieved from URL
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/10/16/many-people-deny-how-
pervasive-racism-higher-ed-and-how-its-often-reproduced
F
eatured in the Washington Post, Washington Region has problems with police
shootings
and racist practices, too, Retrieved from URL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washington-region-has-problems-with-
police-shootings-and-racist-practices-too/2020/06/28/c94819a8-b7dd-11ea-a8da-
693df3d7674a story.html (June 29, 2020)
R
ichardson, J. & Webster, D. (March 17, 2020). Opinion: Sustained
Government Funding Needed for Community-Based Violence Intervention.
Maryland Matters, Guest Commentary. Retried from URL
https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/03/17/opinion-sustained-govt-funding-
needed-for-community-based-violence-intervention/
R
ichardson, J. (December 20, 2018). How Researchers of Color Are Left Out of
the Gun Violence Conversation in Media and Academia. Retrieved from URL
https://diverseeducation.com/article/134888/
F
eatured in the Huffington Post, Hospitals Are Trying to Do What Politicians
Haven’t: Stop Gun Violence, Retrieved from
URL https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gun-violence-intervention-
hospitals us 5bc0fbade4b01a01d68aadc6?ofa (November 2018)
F
eatured in New Connections Research Spotlight, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey. Retrieved from URL http://rwjf-
newconnections.org/news/news-topic/new-connections-research-spotlight-joseph-
richardson. August 2018.
F
eatured in Be The Solution Magazine, Violence Interrupted, Retrieved from URL
ht
tps://bsos.umd.edu/feature/violence-interrupted June 2018
L
ee, J., Richardson, J., & Patton, D. (May 25, 2018). What is Missing from
America’s Gun Control Debate. Vice. Retrieved from URL
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/7xmxky/three-gun-violence-scholars-on-
what-is-missing-from-americas-gun-control-debate
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Sangaramoorthy, T., & Richardson, J. (June 15, 2017). Why the South Still Has
Such High HIV Rates. Newsweek Magazine. Retrieved from URL
http://www.newsweek.com/why-americas-south-still-has-high-hiv-rates-626004

Sangaramoorthy, T., & Richardson, J. (June 13 2017). Why the South Still Has
Such High HIV Rates. The Conversation. Retrieved from URL
https://theconversation.com/why-the-south-still-has-such-high-hiv-rates-76386

Richardson, J. (February 3, 2017). Casualties of a Dice Game. Huffington Post.
Retrieved from URL
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/588608e2e4b08f5134b622cd?timestamp=1
486143526221.

Featured in Be the Solution Magazine, A Violence Intervention: Researchers
Work With Victims of Violent Injury at Prince George’s Hospital Trauma Center,
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, Spring 2016.

Featured in Could Hospital ERs Provide Missing Data on Police Shootings?
February 4, 2016. National Public Radio. Retrieved from URL
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/04/465568899/could-hospital-
ers-provide-missing-data-on-police-shootings.

Featured in Drug Test Shortcomings Foil Synthetic Marijuana Crackdown Efforts.
August 20, 2015. The Washington Times, Retrieved from URL
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/20/synthetic-marijuana-drug-test-
shortcomings-foil-cr/print/

Featured in Baltimore Turmoil Mirrors Racial Disparity. May 2015. Global
Times, Retrieved from URL http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/921090.shtml

Anderson, T. Jan/Feb 2012. Featured Scholar in ‘Forgotten Sons: HIV among
Young Black Men.’ POZ Magazine.

Irwin-Morris, V. (December 2012). Making Literary Connections Via Street
Literature: One Scholar’s Incredible Work. Retrieved from URL
http://www.streetliterature.com

Q&A with Joseph B. Richardson on Project Create Health Literacy Program at
the District of Columbia Jail, Spotlight on Recovery Magazine. Jan 2011. pgs 17-
19.
Anderson, T. (June, 2010). Q&A: Dr. Joseph Richardson, Expert in Health-Risk
Reduction among Youth Offenders. Black AIDS Institute. Retrieved from URL
http://www.thebody.com/content/art57238.html

Turner Trice, D. December 2010. Black Scholars Reach into Their Own Pasts to
Help Beleaguered Young Black Men. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from URL
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-12-13/news/ct-met-trice-black-men-1213-
20101213_1_black-men-black-scholars-social-work

II.J. Sponsored Research and Programs – Administered by the Office of Research
Administration (ORA)
List source, title, amount awarded, time period and role (i.e., principal investigator
or co-investigator) in reverse chronological order or its inverse. If there are co-
investigators, please list them.

II.J.1. Grants

2024-2026 Richardson, J. (PI), Kessel, W (PI)
Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of
Justice
Project: The Violence Reduction Research Initiative
Amount: $726,000

2023-2024 Richardson, J. (PI), Watts, L (Co-I)
Abell Foundation
Project: A Tale of Two Epidemics: Understanding the Convergence of the
Coronavirus and Gun Violence Among Black Women in Baltimore, Maryland
Amount: $10,000

2023-2027 We
bster, D. (Co-I), Richardson, J (Co-I)
Arnold Ventures
Bloomberg School of Public Health & University of Maryland
Project Title: Evaluating and Enhancing Community Violence Intervention
Effectiveness in the Nation’s Capital City
Amount: $1,841,961

2023-2025 Ka
ufman, E. (PI), Patton, D. (PI), Richardson, J (PI)
New Ventures Fund
University of Pennsylvania
Project: Social Media Hot-Spotting to Prevent Violent Injury
Amount: $22,446

2022-2024 LaFree, G (PI), Kyla Liggett-Creel (PI), Richardson, J (Co-PI),
Shmaidah, C (Co-PI)
MPower Grant
University of Maryland Strategic Partnership, MPowering the State
Project: Comparing Firearm Violence from Trauma Units and Police
Amount: $250,000

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2021-2024 Richardson, J. (PI)
MPower Professorship
University of Maryland Strategic Partnership, MPowering the State
Project: Gun Violence & Community Trauma
Amount: $150,000

2021-2022 Richardson, J., (PI) Wical, W. (PI)
National Science Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Award
Project: The Embodied Emotional Experiences of Low-Income Young Black Men
Participating in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program
Award # 2117054
Amount: $20,000

2021-2022 Richardson, J., (PI) Wical, W. (PI)
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Project: The Embodied Emotional Experiences of Low-Income Young Black Men
Par ticipating in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program
Award: #5383152402
Amount: $12,504

2020-2023 R
ichardson, J. (PI)
Maryland Population Research Center COVID-19 Response Seed Grant
Project: A Tale of Two Epidemics: Understanding the Convergence of the
Coronavirus and Gun Violence Among Black Women in Baltimore, Maryland
Amount: $15,000

2020-2021 R
ichardson, J. (PI), Wical, W. (PI)
Faculty Student Research Award (FRSA)
The Graduate School at the University of Maryland College Park
Project: Life After the Gunshot: A Longitudinal Study on Health and Social
Outcomes Among Black Female Survivors of Violent Firearm Injury
Amount $10,000

2020-2021 Roy, K. (PI), Fryer, C. (PI), Richardson, J. (PI)
Brain and Behavior Initiative
University of Maryland College Park
Project: Black Men's Mental Health: Healing from Complex Trauma and Toxic
Environments
Amount: $60,490

2018-2021 Richardson, J. (PI)
Center for Injury Prevention and Policy
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Strategic Academic Partnership Between UMB and UMCP
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Project: An Evaluation of the Violence Intervention Program at the UMB R
Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Amount: $105,000

2018-2019, Richardson, J. (PI), Bullock, C., (Co-I)
Research to Practice (R2P) Fellowship
Center for Victims Research, Urban Institute
Project: Life After the Gunshot: Reducing Criminal and Trauma Recidivism
among Young Black Men in Prince George’s County, MD and Washington DC
Amount: $15,000

2016-2019, R
ichardson, J. (PI), Somerville, J. (Co-I), St. Vil, C. (Co-I)
Second Chance Act Smart Reentry Grant
US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Project: Smart Reentry: Reducing Criminal and Trauma Recidivism among
Returning Citizens in Prince George’s County, MD
Amount: $234,000

2016-2017, Ri
chardson, J. (PI)
Dean’s Research Initiative
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland at College Park
Project: Exploring Recurrent Violent Trauma, Access to Care and HIV Risk
Behaviors among Young Black Men in Prince George’s County
Amount: $20,000

2016-2017, Richardson, J. (PI)
Maryland Population Research Center
University of Maryland at College Park
Project: Exploring Recurring Violent Trauma, Access to Care and HIV Risk
Behaviors among Young Black Men in Prince George’s County
Amount: $15,000

2016-2017, Richardson, J. (PI), Cooper, C. (Co-I)
Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)
PATIENTS Program
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Project: Life After the Gunshot: Empowering Patient Directed Care for Young
Black Male Victims of Violent Injury
Amount: $7,598

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2014-2019, Wish, E. (PI), Artigiani, E. (Co-I), Richardson, J. (Co-I),
Golbeck, J (Co-I), Subrahmanian, V.S. (Co-I)
National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Project: National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) U01-DA038360
Amount: $3,000,000
2014-
2015, Richardson, J. (PI), Cooper, C. (Co-I)
Project: Assessing the Best Strategies of the Maryland ACA Navigator for
Enrolling Young Black Male Victims of Violent Injury into Health Insurance
Coverage
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Amount: $100,000
2014-
2015, Richardson, J. (PI)
University of Maryland Research and Scholarship Award (RASA)
University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Exploring Recurrent Violent Trauma, Linkages to Care and HIV Risk
Related Behaviors among African-American Men in Prince George’s County,
MD
Amount: $9,000
2013-
2014, Richardson, J. (PI)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Dean’s Research Initiative
University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Exploring Recurrent Violent Trauma, Linkages to Care and HIV Risk
Related Behaviors among African-American Men in Prince George’s County,
MD
Amount: $20,000
2012-
2013 Richardson, J. (PI)
Pepsi Enhancement Funds
University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Women of Color and Mass Incarceration
Amount: $1,000
2011-
2012 Richardson, J. (PI)
Consortium for Race, Gender and Ethnicity
University of Maryland, College Park
Faculty Seed Grants for Developing Qualitative Work
Project: Exploring Recurrent Violent Trauma, Linkages to Care and HIV Risk
Related Behaviors among African-American Men in Prince George’s County,
MD
Amount: $2,400
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2011-2012 Richardson, J. (Co-PI), University of Maryland at College Park
Cooper, C. (Co-PI), University of Maryland School of Medicine (SOM)
Prevention Research Center Seed Grant Program, UMD School of Public Health
Project: Exploring Recurrent Violent Trauma, Linkages to Care and HIV Risk
Related Behaviors among African-American Men in Prince George’s County,
MD
Amount: $10,00

2010-2011 Richardson, J. (PI)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Dean’s Research Initiative
University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Exploring the Nexus of Exposure to Violence, Psychological Stressors,
Substance Abuse and Criminal Justice Involvement among Victims of Violent
Injuries in Baltimore City
Amount: $20,000

2010-2011 Richardson, J. (PI)
University of Maryland Research and Scholarship Award (RASA)
University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Exploring the Nexus of Exposure to Violence, Psychological Stressors
and Criminal Justice Involvement among Victims of Violent Injuries In Baltimore
City
Amount: $9,000

2010-2011 Richardson, J. (PI)
Maryland Population Research Center Seed Grant
University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Exploring the Nexus of Exposure to Violence, Psychological Stressors
and Criminal Justice Involvement among Victims of Violent Injuries in Baltimore
City
Amount: $6,000

2008-2009 Richardson, J. (PI)
Center for Teaching Excellence
University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Community as Classroom Using Qualitative Methods in Urban Studies
Amount: $3,500

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Gifts and Funded Research not administered by ORA

II.J.2. Other – Funded Research not administered by ORA

2018-2019, Richardson, J (PI)
Governor’s Office on Crime Control & Prevention of Maryland (GOCCP)
Violence Intervention and Prevention Program
Project: Capital Region Violence Intervention Program at the University of
Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center
Amount: $427,382

2018-2019, Richardson, J (Co-PI) & Benoit, R. (Co-PI)
District of Columbia Executive Office of the Mayor
District of Columbia Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
Project: Supporting Male Survivors of Violence, Capital Region Violence
Intervention Program at the University of Maryland-Prince George’s Hospital
Trauma Center
Amount: $150,000

2017-2018, Richardson, J (Co-PI) & Benoit, R. (Co-PI)
District of Columbia Executive Office of the Mayor
District of Columbia Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
Project: Supporting Male Survivors of Violence, Capital Region Violence
Intervention Program at the University of Maryland-Prince George’s Hospital
Trauma Center
Amount: $123,000

2008-2010 Richardson, J. (PI)
Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Corrections Clinical Scholars Research
Training Program
National Institute of Mental Health and Morehouse School of Medicine
Grant # 5R25MH080669
Project: Exploring the Nexus of Exposure to Violence, Psychological Stressors
and Criminal Justice Involvement among Victims of Violent Injuries In Baltimore
City
Amount: $10,000

2008-2010 Richardson, J. (PI)
Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Corrections Clinical Scholars Research
Training Program
National Institute of Mental Health and Morehouse School of Medicine
Grant # 5R25MH080669
Project: A Qualitative Study of Health Risks Behaviors among African-American
Male Youth Offenders Detained in an Adult Jail
Amount: $10,000
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2005-2006 Richardson, J. (PI)
The MacArthur Foundation Transitions to Adulthood Research Network
Project: Exploring the Social Context of Juvenile Re-Entry in Chicago
Amount: $30,000

II.K. Centers for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities

Founding Co-Director, UMD PROGRESS Initiative, Prevent Gun Violence: Research
Empowerment Strategies and Solutions, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences,
University of Maryland (November 2023-Present)

Founding Director, TRAVAIL, Transformative Research and Applied Violence
Intervention Lab, Department of African-American & Africana Studies, University of
Maryland (2019-Present)

II.L. Patents

II.M. Entrepreneurial, Technology Transfer, and Public Engagement Activities

II.N. Other Research / Scholarship / Creative Activities

Other Research

Summer 2018, Richardson, J. (PI)
University of Maryland MPower Program
Project: UM Scholars Opportunities for UMB Students at UM College Park
Amount: $6,000

Summer 2017, Richardson, J. (PI)
University of Maryland MPower Program
Project: UM Scholars Opportunities for UMB Students at UM College Park
Amount: $12,000

Fieldwork

2023-Present. Evaluating and Enhancing Community Violence Intervention
Effectiveness in the Nation’s Capital City, Washington, DC

2023-Present. A Tale of Two Epidemics: Understanding the Convergence of the
Coronavirus and Gun Violence Among Black Women in Baltimore, Maryland

2020-2023. Bl
ack Men's Mental Health: Healing from Complex Trauma and Toxic
Environments, Baltimore, MD and Prince George’s County, MD

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2019-2021. Barriers to Accessing Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Services
among Male Survivors of Violent Injury, Baltimore, MD
2017- 2019. Smart Reentry-Reducing Criminal and Trauma Recidivism among
Returning Citizens in Prince George’s County, MD
2017-
2019. Lif
e After the Gunshot: Empowering Patient Directed Care for Young
Black Male Victims of Violent Injury in Prince George’s County, MD and
Washington, DC
2015-
2016. Screening and Reporting, Synthetic Cannabinoid Use, Urban Emergency
Department, in Prince George’s County, MD and Washington, DC
2014-
2016. Affordable Care Act Navigator, Health Insurance Coverage, Black Male
Victims of Violent Injury, Urban Trauma Units, in Prince George’s County and
Baltimore, MD
2013-
2015. Risk Factors for Recurrent Violent Injury, Linkages/Barriers to Care,
HIV Risk Behaviors, Black Male Victims of Violent Injury, Urban Trauma Unit, in
Prince George’s County, MD and Washington, DC
2008-
2010. Serious Violent Youth Offenders, Adult Jails, Health Risk Behaviors, in
Maryland and Washington, DC
2005-
2006. Juvenile Re-Entry, Juvenile Offenders, in Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
2001-
2003. High School Dropouts and Employment Challenges in North and West
Philadelphia
1999-
2000. Prison Re-Entry Programs in New York City and Chicago
1998-
1999. Bloods and Crips, Emergence of Violent Youth Gangs in Central Harlem
1995-
1999. Social Context of Adolescent Violence, Schools, Communities and
Households in Central Harlem
R
esearch and Technical Assistance Consulting
T
echnical Assistance and Research Consultant, Providing technical assistance and
research consulting for an emerging hospital-based violence intervention program at
the University of Arkansas Medical System, Little Rock, AR (January 2022-Present)
R
esearch Consultant, Leading the qualitative research evaluation of a cognitive
behavioral therapy, peer healing and peer support model for Black men survivors of
violent firearm injury in Baltimore. ROAR Center at the University of Maryland
Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (January 2022-Present)
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Research Consultant, Leading the qualitative research component for the evaluation
of the Safe Streets Baltimore Program, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John
Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD (January 2021-June 2022)

Research Consultant, Reducing structural and moral injury in patients and trainees: A
novel curriculum on structural competence and anti-racism praxis for surgeons
(structural justice), Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, University of
Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. (August 2020-Present)

Consultant, Building the Evidence Base for Community-Based Violence Reduction,
A Project of Arnold Ventures at the John Jay College Research and Evaluation
Center, New York, NY (July 2020-Present)

Grant Reviewer, Group Violence Intervention Service Response Providers, Mayor’s
Office of Criminal Justice, City of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (July 2020-Present)

Case Competition Coach, 2019 Summer Institute on Gun Violence Prevention Case
Competition, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars,
Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.
Washington, DC (July 2019)

Instructor, Trauma Informed Care Workshops for High Risk Students, Communities
in Schools: The Nation’s Capital, Eastern Senior High School, District of Columbia
Schools, Washington DC (January 2019-June 2019)

Instructor, Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute,
Instructor for an intersectional qualitative research methods institute with a specific
emphasis on data collection and analysis among hard to reach vulnerable populations,
University of Maryland College Park, MD (June 2015-Present)

Research Scientist, Social Research Center, Friends Research Institute (Baltimore,
MD) (November 2010-January 2019)

Institutional Review Board Member, Friends Research Institute (Baltimore, MD)
(January2011-January 2019)

Research Consultant. Law Offices of Marvin Miller. (Alexandria, VA).
Provided expert witness testimony, analyzed and coded wiretapped telephonic
conversations in a federal drug trial, US v. Olden Minnick (June 2015-August 2016)

Research Consultant, The New Life Comprehensive Research Center, College of
Professional Studies at Bowie State University. Bowie, MD. Provided research and
evaluation consultation for a pilot program to assist formerly incarcerated persons as
they re-integrated into communities in Prince George’s County, MD following
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release from jail or prison. Collaborative partnership between Bowie State University
College of Professional Studies, Morgan State University School of Social Work, and
the University of Maryland Department of African-American Studies (August 2015-
January 2016)

Research Consultant. Federal Public Defender’s Office of Baltimore. Baltimore, MD.
Expert witness in capital crime case, Davis vs. State of Maryland. Researched and
constructed life history narrative on the adolescent life-course of the defendant Earl
W. Davis. Collected community-level ethnographic data and community-level GIS
crime data on the social context of adolescent development for the defendant, Earl W.
Davis. (October 2008-March 2009)

Grant Reviewer, Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for
Children, Youth and Families, Washington, DC. Reviewed and evaluated grant
proposals submitted to ACYF targeting homeless, runaway and delinquent youth. (July
2005)

Grant Reviewer, Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for
Children, Youth and Families, Washington, DC. Reviewed and evaluated grant
proposals submitted to ACYF targeting homeless, runaway and delinquent youth. (July
2004)

Technical Assistance Consultant. The Mayatech Corporation. School Violence
Interactive Multimedia Project, Silver Spring, MD. Provided technical assistance in the
development, implementation and evaluation phases of a multi-media violence
prevention project funded by SAMSHA. (January 2000 to January 2003)

Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology,
Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study (PELS), Philadelphia, PA. Conducted in-
depth qualitative interviews with high school dropouts on their employment
experiences. (September 2001-August 2003)

Technical Assistance Consultant, Texas Southern University, School of Public
Affairs and the Barbara Jordan Institute of Policy Studies, Houston, TX. Provided
technical assistance in the development and planning of a public policy research
institute and criminal justice administration program for the school of public policy at
Texas Southern University. (July 2002).

Technical Assistance Consultant, US Department of Justice, Executive Office of
Weed and Seed Serious and Violent Offender Re-Entry Initiative, Washington, DC.
Provided technical assistance to community-based re-entry programs with a specific
focus on family re-integration, the mental health of children of incarcerated parents
and substance abuse treatment for individuals returning from prison. (October 2000 to
October 2001).

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Research Associate, Ethnographer, National Associates Program, Vera Institute of
Justice, New York, NY. Led qualitative research study on prison-based re-entry
programs in New York State which prepared citizens for return to communities and
families post-incarceration in New York City. (September 1999-September 2000)

Research Associate, Ethnographer, Growing Up Safe and Smart Project, Vera
Institute of Justice, New York, NY. Conducted a four-year longitudinal ethnographic
research study on the social context of adolescent violence in schools and
communities among N=25 African-American youth and families living in a
disadvantaged Black community in New York City. (September 1995-August 1999)

II.O. Research Fellowships, Honors, Prizes and Awards

Official Film Selection, APHA 2025 Annual Meeting Film Festival, Washington DC
(November 2025)

Francis J. Bonner, MD Award, Mass General Hospital-Department of Psychiatry,
Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, Boston, MA (October 2024)

Elected Member, Class of 2023, National Academy of Medicine.
Washington, DC (October 2023)

Award of Recognition, Documentary Feature, Life After the Gunshot, Impact DOCS
Award, La Jolla, CA (July 2023)

Official Film Selection, Life After the Gunshot, Giffords CVI Conference, Los
Angeles, CA (June 2023)

Faculty Service Award, The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education, College of
Success Scholars, 15th Annual Program Gala, College Park, MD
(April 2023)

HAVI Faculty, Healing Alliance for Violence Intervention
(2022-2024)

Official Film Selection, Special Screening of Life After the Gunshot, Scribe Video
Center, Philadelphia, PA
(January 2023)

Official Film Selection and Nomination for Best Documentary Feature Film, Indie
Filmmaker Awards (December 2022) Retrieved from URL
https://www.indiefilmmakerawards.com/2022-awards

Official Film Selection, Life After the Gunshot, DC4REEL, 36th Annual DC
International Film Festival, Washington DC (April 2022)

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MPower Professorship, University of Maryland Strategic Partnership, MPowering the
State (November 2021-Present)

Award of Merit, Feature Documentary, Life After the Gunshot, IndieFest Film
Festival, La Jolla, CA (November 2021)

Official Film Selection, Life After the Gunshot, IndieFest Film Festival, La Jolla, CA
(November 2021)

Member, Advisory Group, Biden-Harris Transition Team on Gun Violence
Prevention, (December 2020)

Mentor, Bloomberg American Health Initiative, Bloomberg Fellows Program, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD (July 2020-Present)

ADVANCE Leadership Fellow, ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence,
University of Maryland College Park (September 2019-May 2020)

The Joel and Kim Feller Endowed Professorship, College of Behavioral and Social
Sciences, University of Maryland College Park (September 2019-June 2023)

New Connections Research Spotlight, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Princeton, New Jersey. August 2018.

Graduate, Innovations Suite Researcher Practitioner Fellows Academy, US
Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Michigan State
University-School of Criminal Justice. Lansing, MI. July 2017.

Invited Scholar, RISE (Research, Integration, Strategies and Evaluation) for Boys and
Men of Color. April 2016-Present.

Mid-Career Scholar Award, New Connections Program, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey. August 2014-December 2015.

Honoree, 8th Annual University-Wide Celebration of Scholarship and Research,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. May 2015.

Official Film Selection, Bullets Without Names, Nominated for Best Documentary
Short, American Visions Awards, American University, Washington DC (2014)

Faculty Spotlight, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD. October 2014.

ICPSR Methodological Training Award in Social Network Analysis, Odum Institute
for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, New Connections Program. August 2014.
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Sc
holar, The Ford Foundation Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Well-Being
of African-American Men, August 2009-Present.
U
niversity of Maryland Black Alumni Spotlight Award, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD August 2013.
C
linical Research Training Fellowship, Mental Health, Substance Abuse and
HIV/AIDS in Correctional Healthcare Clinical Research Scholars Training Program.
Morehouse School of Medicine, Department of Community Health and Preventive
Medicine (Atlanta, GA) and the Division for Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine,
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC), June 2008-August 2010. (NIMH
Grant # 5R25MH080669)
T
he Faculty Minority Achievement Award, President’s Commission on Ethnic
Minority Issues, University of Maryland, April 2009.
M
acArthur Foundation Transitions to Adulthood Research Network, Member,
University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children, September 2005-August
2006.
Spe
ncer Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Chicago,
Consortium on Chicago School Research, September 2003-August 2005.
G
raduate Research Fellowship, US Department of Justice, National Institute of
Justice, January 2000-January 2001.
N
IDA Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Behavioral Science Research Training
Program in Drug Abuse, The National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI)
and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). January 1995-December 2000.
III. Teaching, Extension, Mentoring, and Advising
III.A. Courses Taught
T
he New Jim Crow: African-Americans, Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial
Complex (AASP I187 I Series Course)*+
(Fall 2015-Fall 2024)
A
dvanced Topics in Public Policy and the Black Community
Race and the Juvenile Justice System: A Contextual Analysis of Structural and
Interpersonal Violence (AASP 499T)*
(Spring 2020; Spring 2021)
R
ace, Poverty, Youth Violence and the Juvenile Justice System: A Theoretical
Analysis of Social Capital in Schools, Communities and Families (AASP 499T)*
(Spring 2007-Spring 2016)
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Qualitative Research Methods in Urban Studies (AASP 297 and 498Q)*
(Fall 2007-Spring 2016)

Co-Instructor, Freddie Gray’s Baltimore (MLAW 374)
(Fall 2016-Spring 2017)

Independent Research Thesis (AASP 396)
(Spring 2007-Present)

Introduction to African-American Studies (AASP 100)
(Spring 2009)

*Independently developed and instructed these courses
+Signature course in General Education

III.B. Teaching Innovations
Developed and instructed I-Series Course AASP 187I The New Jim Crow: African-
Americans, Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex

III.C. Advising: Research or Clinical
This refers to students whose projects the faculty has supervised as adviser,
committee chair, or committee member (indicate role). The name of student,
academic year(s) involved, and the name of institution if other than UMD should be
indicated, as well as placement of the student(s), if the project is completed. List
completed work first.

III.D. Advising: Other than Directed Research
III.D.1. Undergraduate

Tyler Harris (Department of African-American Studies)+
Nathan Brandli (Department of African-American Studies)+
Sierra Kelley-Chung (Individual Studies Program)+
Caroline Boisseau (Department of African-American Studies)+
+Completed and successfully defended senior thesis

III.D.2. Master’s

Lindsey Wood
Department of Hearing and Speech
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland
(January 2024-May 2025)
*Successfully defended Master’s Thesis May 2025

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Shayla Stringfield*
Department of Behavioral and Community Health
School of Public Health
University of Maryland
(January 2024-June 2024)
*Capstone

Imani Brown, MPH
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student
Global Mental Health and Addiction Program
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
(June 2024)
*Successfully defended Master’s Thesis June 2024

Lyd
ia Watts JD
Bloomberg American Health Initiative (BAHI)
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(July 2020-Present)

Marci Deloatch*
Department of Health Promotion & Behavior
School of Public Health
University of Maryland at College Park
(June 2018-December 2018)
` *Capstone

Ebonie Massey
Department of Sociology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland at College Park
(January 2017-May 2018)

Kaelin Rapport
Department of Anthropology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland at College Park
(January 2017-June 2017)

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III.D.3. Doctoral

Robyn Moore
Department of Sociology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland
(March 2024-Present)

Toryn Rae Sperry, PhD
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland
(December 2023-April 2025)
*Successfully defended dissertation defense April 2025

William Wical, PhD
Department of Anthropology (Medical Anthropology Concentration)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland
(September 2018-May 2024)
*Successfully defended dissertation defense April 2024

Maya Kearney, MA
Department of Anthropology
American University
(September 2020- Present)

Nathan Aguilar, MSW
School of Social Work
Columbia University
(January 2021-June 2024)
*Successfully defended dissertation defense June 2024

Nicholas Galloway, MA
Department of Anthropology (Medical)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(September 2019-May 2021)

Denae Johnson, MA
Department of Sociology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland at College Park
(September 2015-August 2016)

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III.D.4. Post-Doctoral

Mihir Chaudhary, MD, MPH
African-American Studies Department
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(July 2020-May 2021)

Christopher St. Vil, PhD, MSW
African-American Studies Department
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(September 2013-August 2015)

Robert Turner, PhD
African-American Studies Department
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(September 2013-August 2015)

III.D.5. Other Advising Activities
(Include advising student groups, special assignments, recruiting, etc.)

Dissertation Committees

Toryn Rae Sperry (UMD Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice)^+*
Robyn Moore (UMD Department of Sociology)*
William Wical, (UMD Department of Anthropology)!+
Nathan Aguilar (School of Social Work, Columbia University)*+
Jordan Costa (School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University)*+
Loqani Anelisa (UMD Department of Criminology, University of Fort Hare,
South Africa)+
Maya Kearney (Department of Anthropology, American University)~
Sara Boonstoppel ( UMD Department of Criminology)*+
Sara Betsinger (UMD Department of Criminology)*^+
Kathryn Kozey ( UMD Department of Criminology)*^+
Brian Gilchrist (UMD School of Public Health)*+
John Hart ( UMD School of Public Health)*^+
Elizabeth Warrick (UMD School of Information Studies)*^+
Steven Mobley ( UMD School of Education)*^+
Shane Walsh (UMD Department of American Studies)*+
Jason Nichols (UMD Department of American Studies)*+
Ryan Shanahan ( UMD Department of Women’s Studies)*+
Kevin Winstead UMD (Department of American Studies)+^
Jared Ball (UMD Department of American Studies)+^

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!Chair
*Dissertation Committee Member
~Co-Chair
+Completed dissertation and defense
^ Dean’s Representative
G
raduate/Undergraduate Research Assistants & Interns
T
imel Rodriquez
Graduate Research Assistant
UMD PROGRESS Initiative
University of Maryland
(Spring 2024-June 2025)
L
indsey Wood
Graduate Research Assistant
UMD PROGRESS Initiative
University of Maryland
(Spring 2024-June 2025)
S
hayla Stringfield
Graduate Research Assistant
UMD PROGRESS Initiative
University of Maryland
(Spring 2024-Present)
H
annah Balcanoff
Undergraduate Research Assistant
UMD PROGRESS Initiative
University of Maryland
(Spring 2024-Present)
M
ikayla Dayes
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Kinesiology
School of Public Health
University of Maryland College Park
(Fall 2022)
J
esus Orozco
Summer Intern
Summer Research Internship (SRI)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(Summer 2021-Summer 2022)
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Nassor Saidi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Psychology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(September 2020-September 2021)

Nassor Saidi
Summer Intern
Summer Research Internship (SRI)
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(Summer 2020)

Nipun Kottage
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Anthropology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(December 2018-July 2020)

Bethel Berhane
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
College of Chemical & Life Sciences Program
University of Maryland College Park
(July 2018-May 2020)

Nina Remy
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Psychology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(Summer 2018)

Vanessa Reis
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Criminology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(Summer 2018)

Karnella Fobbs
Graduate Research Intern
School of Social Work
University of Maryland Shady Grove
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UM Scholars Program
(Summer 2018)

Jordan Costa
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
(Spring 2018-Summer 2018)

Iyah Chen
Graduate Research Intern
Carey School of Law
University of Maryland
UM Scholars Program
(Summer 2017)

Emily Blatter
Graduate Research Intern
School of Social Work
University of Maryland
UM Scholars Program
(Summer 2017)

Christina Bijou
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Sociology
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Maryland at College Park
(2016-2017)

Early Career Faculty

Christopher St. Vil, MSW PhD
Associate Professor
School of Social Work
State University of New York at Buffalo
(Fall 2015-Present)

Nakita Lovelady, PhD
Assistant Professor
Health Behavior & Education
Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
(January 2022- Present)

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Nazsa Baker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Research Faculty
Co-Lead Researcher/Program Manager
The Wraparound Project (HVIP)
University of California at San Francisco
(June 2024-Present)

III.E. P
rofessional and Extension Education

III.F. Contribution to Learning Outcomes Assessment

III.G. Other Teaching Activities

Lead Faculty Instructor, Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute
(IQRMI), Consortium for Race, Gender and Ethnicity, University of Maryland
College Park (2015-2024)

III.H. Teaching Awards

Center for Teaching Excellence Award, University of Maryland, College Park.
(September 2008-June 2009)

Faculty of the Year Award, Nyumburu Cultural Center, University of Maryland,
College Park, May 2007.

IV. Service and Outreach
IV.A. Editorships, Editorial Boards, and Reviewing Activities

Consulting Editor, Psychology of Violence, 2023-Present
Editorial Board Member, Open Qualitative Criminology, 2021-Present

IV.A.1. Reviewing Activities for Journals and Presses

Journal of Urban Health, 2025
Psychology of Violence, 2025
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
PLOS One, 2024
SN Social Sciences, 2024
Journal of Urban Health, 2024
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2023 2024
American Journal of Men’s Health, 2023
BMJ Public Health, 2023
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 2023
Humanity & Society, 2023
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022
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Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 2022
Social Problems, 2022
BMJ Open, 2022
Preventive Medicine, 2022
Children and Youth Services Review, 2022
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2022
American Journal of Men’s Health, 2022
Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2022
Book Reviewer, Temple University Press, 2021
Violence and Victims, 202)
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2021
Contexts, 2020
Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, 2020
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2020
Journal of Adolescence Research, 2020, 2021
Journal of International Medical Research, 2020, 2021
Health Affairs, 2019
Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 2019
American Public Health Association, 2018
American Journal of Men’s Health, 2018
Violence and Victims, 2017
Journal of Men’s Studies, 2017
Drug and Alcohol Review, 2016
Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 2016
American Journal of Public Health, 2016
Sage Open, 2016
Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 2015
Urban Review, 2014
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2014
Qualitative Research, 2014
Qualitative Sociology, 2013
Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2012
The Journal of Criminal Justice, 2012
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2011
Crime and Delinquency, 2011
Journal of Family Issues, 2010
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2009
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2009
Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008
The Journal of African-American Studies, 2008

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IV.B. Committees, Professional & Campus Service
I
V.B.1. Campus Service – Departmental
C
hair, Appointment Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of African-
American and Africana Studies, 2025-2026
Committee Member, Executive Committee, Department of African-American and
Africana Studies, 2024-2025
Committee Member, Appointment Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Department of African-American Studies, 2023-2024
Chair, Appointment Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of African-
American Studies (2022-2023)
Committee Member, Executive Committee, Department of African-American
Studies (2022-2023)
Chair, Executive Committee, Department of African-American Studies
(2020-2021)
Chair, Appointment Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of African-
American Studies (2020)
Chair, John B. Slaughter Reparations Lecture Series, Department of African-
American Studies (2020-2021)
Acting Chair, Department of African-American Studies (2020-2021)
Chair, Appointment Promotion and Tenure Third Year Review Committee,
Department of African-American Studies (2019-2020)
Committee Member, Appointment Promotion and Tenure Post-Tenure Review
Committee, Department of African-American Studies (2019-2020)
Committee Member, Merit Committee, Department of African-American Studies
(2019)
Committee Member, Executive Committee, Department of African-American
Studies (2012-2018)
Chair, Search Committee, Department of African-American Studies (2013-2017)
Chair, Appointment for Promotion and Tenure Committee (APT), Department of
African-American Studies (2016)
Committee Member, Appointment for Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Department of African-American Studies (2014-2017)
Advisory Board Member, Judge Alexander Williams, Jr., Center for Education,
Justice and Ethics (2016-Present)
Committee Member, Chair Search Committee, Department of African-American
Studies (2009-2014)
Committee Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of African-American
Studies (2007-2015)
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IV.B.2. Campus Service – College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Committee Member, Vision Team for Faculty Success (2023-Present)
Committee Member, BSOS Appointment and Promotion Tenure Committee
(2022-2024)
Committee Member, BSOS Dean’s Search Committee (Spring 2022)
Co-Chair, Policy and Community Engagement Committee, Anti-Black Racism
Initiative (2020-2021)
Mentor, BSOS Summer Research Internship Program (2021)
Mentor, BSOS Summer Research Internship Program (2020)
Committee Member, BSOS Dean’s Review Committee (2013)
Search Committee Member, BSOS Dean’s Search Committee (2013)
Member, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Council (2013-2015)
Search Committee Member, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center
for Safe Solutions (2011)
Mentor, Summer Research Internship Program, (2011)

IV.B.3. Campus Service – University

Reviewer, MPower Professorship Program (2023, 2024)
Committee Member, Campus Safety Advisory Council (2022-2024)
Committee Member, Grand Challenge Strategic Planning Committee (2022-2023)
Committee Member, UMD Presidential Task Force on Community Policing
(2020-2021)
Committee Member, Universities Studying Slavery at UMD, The 1856 Project
(2020-2021)
Chair, Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG), Consortium on Race, Gender
and Ethnicity (2013-Present)
Member, UMD ADVANCE Program (2012-Present)
Grant Reviewer, UMD ADVANCE Program (2012)
Faculty Senator, Campus Affairs Committee, University Senate, University of
Maryland (2012-2014)
Faculty Mentor, Black Male Initiative Program, Nyumburu Cultural Center
(2006-Present)
Mentor, McNair Scholars Program (2015-2017)

IV.C. External Service and Consulting

External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, University of California-Davis (2024)
External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
(2024)
External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, Montclair State University (2023)
External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, University of Pennsylvania (2022)1
External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, University of Pennsylvania (2022)2
External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, University of Chicago (2022)
External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, Washington University-St. Louis (2021)
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External Evaluator, Promotion & Tenure, Columbia University (2018)

Founder & Executive Director, The Change Agents, LLC
A public facing translational and transformative research consulting, technical
assistance and digital media company that engages qualitative research methods in
the evaluation of violence reduction programs. Change Agents employs the use of
digital media, specifically digital storytelling, as a methodological tool for narrative
change to disseminate research findings to a broader audience (November 2018-
Present)

IV.D. Non-Research Presentations

IV.E. Media Contributions

IV.F. Community & Other Service

Advisory Committee Member, Prince George’s County Safe Streets Advisory
Board, (2024-Present)
Advisory Committee Member, Restorative Justice Steering Committee, City of
College Park, Maryland (May 2021-May 2022)

IV.G. Community Service Awards and Honors

Recipient, Justice Potter Stewart Award, 26th Annual Justice Potter Stewart
Award, Council for Court Excellence, Washington DC (May 2023)

Faculty Service Award, College Success Scholars, 15th Anniversary Program Gala,
The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education, University of Maryland, College Park,
MD (April 2023)

Board of Directors, Firearm Research Society, University of Michigan-Institute for
Firearm Injury Prevention (December 2022-Present)

Co-Chair, District of Columbia Mayor’s Office, DC Violence Fatality Review
Committee, DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (March 2022-Present)

Co-Chair, RAND Executive Planning Committee, National Research Conference on
Firearm Injury Prevention (February 2022-Present)

Mentor, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
(May 2021-Present)

Mentor, Bloomberg Fellowship Program, Bloomberg American Health Initiative,
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (July
2020-Present)
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Committee Member, District of Columbia Mayor’s Office, DC Violence Fatality
Review Committee, DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Washington DC
(November 2019-March 2022)

Advisory Council Member, Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention
Advisory Council, Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth and Victim
Services, Crownsville, MD (January 2018-Present)

Co-Chair, Education Sub-Committee, Maryland Violence Prevention Coalition,
Baltimore, MD (January 2020-Present)

UMD ADVANCE Leadership Fellows Program, College Park, MD. (September
2019-August 2020)

*Case Competition Coach, 2019 Summer Institute on Gun Violence Prevention
Case Competition, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research
Scholars, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.
Washington, DC (July 2019)
*Winner of Case Competition

Public Health Hero, UMD School of Public Health, Public Health Thank You Day,
College Park, Maryland. November 2018.

Advisory Board Member, Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory
Council, Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention. November 2018-Present.

Executive Office of the Mayor – Mayor’s Office of Talent and Appointments
John A. Wilson Building | 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 600 | Washington, DC 20004
Dr. Joseph Richardson
Dr. Joseph B. Richardson, Jr., is an Associate Professor of Criminology
and Medical Anthropology in the Departments of African -American
Studies and Anthropology at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Dr. Richardson also has a secondary appointment as Associate Professor
in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (Division of
Preventive Medicine) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
He completed his doctoral studies at Rutgers University School of
Criminal Justice and his bachelor's degree in African and African -
American Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. Richardson has been
awarded several prestigious fellowships: Spencer Foundation Post -
Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Chicago and a National
Institute of Mental Health Clinical Scholars Research Training Fellowship in HIV/AIDS, Mental
Health and Substance Use in Correctional Healthcare at the Morehouse School of Medicine and
the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
He is also a recipient of the Mid -Career Scholars Award from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation New Connections Program. Dr. Richardson’s research focuses on three areas: 1)
violence and trauma among Black boys and young Black men; 2) incarceration as a social
determinant of health; and 3) parenting strategies for low -income Black boys. Dr. Richardson is
one of the founders as well as the Program and Research Director for the Capital Region Violence
Intervention Program (CAP -VIP), a hospital -based violence intervention program, at the
University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center. CAP -VIP provides psychosocial
services for survivors of violent injury with the aim to reduce trauma and criminal recidivism. Dr.
Richardson is also the Research Partner f or the Prince George’s County Innovations in Reentry
Initiative funded by the U nited States Department of Justice to assess reentry outcomes among
young men released from the Prince George’s County Jail.
A Maryland resident, Dr. Richardson earned his Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American
Studies from the University of Virginia. He also earned his Master of Arts and Doctorate in
Criminology and Criminal Justice from Rutgers University.

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser
Office of the General Counsel to the Mayor
______________________________________________________________________________
The John A. Wilson Building • 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW • Suite 300 • Washington, D.C. 20004 • Office (202) 724-7681
To: Kimberly A. Bassett, Steve Walker
From: Betsy Cavendish
Date: January 27, 2026
Subject: Legal sufficiency review of a resolution reappointing Dr. Joseph Richardson as a
member of the Violence Fatality Review Committee
This is to Certify that this office has reviewed the above-referenced resolution and
found it to be legally unobjectionable. If you have any questions in this regard, please do not
hesitate to call Michael Porcello, Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office of the Mayor, at
202-727-0872, or me at 202-724-7681.
______________________________
Elizabeth Cavendish