Community Safety Workgroup Participants

• Rev. Dr. DeWayne Davis (Co-Chair), Lead Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church
• Nekima Levy Armstrong (Co-Chair), Founder, Racial Justice Network; Executive Director, The Wayfinder
Foundation; CEO, Black Pearl, LLC
• Charles Adams III, Director of Team Security, Minnesota Twins; Coach, North High Football; previous
Minneapolis Police Department
• Sue Abderholden, Executive Director, NAMI Minnesota
• Mohamed Y. Ali, previously Puntland Human Rights Association
• Nicole L. Archbold, MA, Director of Community Affairs, Minnesota Department of Public Safety
• Susan Bass Roberts, Vice President and Executive Director, Pohlad Foundation
• Rev. Ian D. Bethel, Senior Co-Pastor, New Beginnings Baptist Ministries; Unity Community Mediation Team
• Steve Cramer, President and CEO, Downtown Council; board member, Minneapolis Regional Chamber of
Commerce; board member, Meet Minneapolis; board member, Opportunity Partners; board member, Catholic
Charities; co-chair, Hennepin County Workforce Leadership Council; co-chair, Heading Home Hennepin
Executive Committee
• Chela Guzmán-Wiegert, administration, Hennepin County
• Autumn Dillie, board chair, Bdote Learning Center; Street Outreach Worker, American Indian Community
Development Corporation (AICDC)
• Michael Goze, CEO, American Indian Community Development Corporation (AICDC); board member, Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; board member, Mni Sota Fund
• Michelle Gross, President, Communities United Against Police Brutality
• Brandon Jones, MA, Executive Director, Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health
• Rev. Carmen Means, Pastor, The Movement Church; Executive Director, CANDO
• Abdikadir Mohamud, CEO, TH Security Group, veteran
• Angela Rose Myers, President, NAACP MPLS
• Sheila Nezhad, Policy Organizer, Reclaim the Block
• Lul Osman, Grants Specialist, Minnesota Department of Administration; Founder, B.R.A.V.E. Foundation
Incorporated
• Sondra Samuels, President and CEO, Northside Achievement Zone
• Sharon Sayles Belton, Vice President of Government Relations and Community Affairs, Thomson-Reuters;
former Mayor of Minneapolis
• LaZya Smith, Member, Young People’s Taskforce
• Chanda Smith-Baker, Chief Impact Officer and Senior Vice President, Minneapolis Foundation
• Mark Thompson, Chief Courts Administrator, Hennepin County
• Bridgette Stewart, Communications, Agape Movement Co.
• Christopher Uggen, Professor, University of Minnesota
• Jan Unstad, President, Unstad Project LCC
• Marquise Wilkins, EMERGE
• Antonio Oftelie (Facilitator), Executive Director at Leadership for Networked World, Harvard University
• Chief Medaria Arradondo (Staff), Chief, City of Minneapolis Police Department
• Sasha Cotton (Staff), Director, City of Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention, director
• Andrew Hawkins (Staff), Chief of Staff, City of Minneapolis Civil Rights
• Jared Jeffries (Staff), Principle Policy Aide, City of Minneapolis Office of Mayor Frey
• Fatima Moore (Staff), Director, City of Minneapolis Intergovernmental Relations
• Heidi Ritchie (Staff), Policy Director, City of Minneapolis Office of Mayor Frey