Barbara Blount Armstrong, Chief Operating Officer, Associated Black Charities

Hathaway Ferebee, Executive Director, Baltimore’s Safe and Sound Campaign

Jamal Mubdi-Bey, Director of Community Outreach, Sojourner-Douglass College

Congressman Elijah Cummings, House of Representatives, 41st district

Linda Muhammad, Founder, Miriam’s House

Craig Powell, Executive Coordinator, PowerNet of Dayton, Ohio

Professor Michael Pinard, Asst. Professor, University of Maryland School of Law

David Miller, Co-Founder, Urban Leadership Institute

Salima Siler Marriot, Deputy Mayor, Baltimore City

Diane Bell-McKoy, President & CEO, Associated Black Charities

Dorsey Nunn, Program Director Legal Services for Prisoners with Children & Cofounder, All of Us or None

Senator Catherine Pugh, State Senator, Baltimore, Maryland

Dr. Philip Leaf, Director, Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence

Sheila Dixon, Mayor, Baltimore City

Dr. Richard Rowe, President & CEO, African American Male Leadership Institute

Ernest Dorsey, Director, MOED- Youth Opportunity Baltimore

Felix Mata, Project Director, Baltimore City Ex-Offender Initiative Re-entry Center (ReC)

Garry A Mendez, Jr., Executive Director, The National Trust for the Development of African-American Men

Sherrilyn Ifill, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Law

Terry Brown, Vice President, Baltimore Behavioral Health

Tyrone Harris, Founder, Brothers in Unity, Waterloo, Iowa

University of Maryland School of Law Students, “Ban the Box” Initiative