Board of Directors
 Robert Wasserman, Chair
Robert Wasserman is the Chairman of the Strategic Policy Partnership, a group that assists police and government agencies with policing strategy development, performance improvement, personnel selection, utilization of technology and policy development. He previously served as a Senior Advisor on International Law Enforcement for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement at the U. S. Department of State and served as Chief of Staff of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and was sent to Bosnia following the war, as both Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Acting Commissioner of the United Nations International Police Task Force. He has had an extensive career in law enforcement, having served as a senior executive in several large American police agencies, including Dayton, Boston and Houston. During the course of his career, he has been the initiator or at the forefront of a number of seminal policing initiatives, including 311 and differential police response, police performance management (CompStat), neighborhood-oriented policing, the Kansas City Patrol Experiments, Dayton Team Policing, the San Diego Beat Profiling initiative, the Boston Community Disorders strategy and the Police Recruit Training Year.
Ruben Gonzalez, Vice Chair
Ruben Gonzalez, Vice Chair, currently works as a Senior Consultant with the Center for the Study of Social Policy. The Center strives to help states and localities implement creative and effective strategies to strengthen disadvantaged communities and families. He is currently working with the L.A. County Chief Executive Office to provide multi-jurisdictional leadership and direction for the Gang Violence Reduction Initiative in four demonstration sites throughout L.A. County. He also serves as the Co-Chair of Preventing Gun Violence: A Community Solution Series with John Torres Special Agent in Change of The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to develop real solutions to the problem of gun violence in California. Mr. Gonzalez also serves as the lead in planning the Strengthening LA County’s Prevention System: Public Sector-Philanthropic Forum Series which is intended to connect and coordinate L.A. County’s Health and Human Services sector initiatives with philanthropic opportunities. Mr. Gonzalez has previously served as the Executive Director of the Latino Health Collaborative, the Chief Executive Officer of the Valley Inc. a comprehensive, multi-service youth and family agency, and helped establish The Valley’s Community Action Center. Mr. Gonzalez served for twelve years as a Deputy Sheriff in Southern California, heading the County School and Community Safety operations under the auspices of the L.A. County Superintendent of Schools and the L.A. Sheriff’s Department. Mr. Gonzales conducts international, national, state and local training workshops on a wide range of subjects including managing juvenile operations, safe school planning, crisis and emergency management, developing alternatives to criminal gang prosecution, drug abuse and violence prevention, and Community Building techniques. Ruben Gonzales has received numerous awards for his dedication and commitment to youth.
Mark Gillespie
Mark Gillespie is Lieutenant Detective of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Police Department. Mr. Gillespie has been an officer with the MBTA Transit Police since 1975 and has risen through the ranks to his current position, where he leads the Department’s investigations. Mr. Gillespie is also the innovator and coordinator of all youth-related policing at the Department. He oversees the STOP-WATCH and TRUANCY-Watch programs which involve a partnership with Boston Public Schools, Boston Police, Boston Juvenile Court Probation and local youth service providers to reduce juvenile crime and work with youth who are in need. This program was awarded the American Public Transportation Award for Innovation in 2005 and was selected as a semi finalist for the Webber Seavey Award of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 2006.
Arthur Guray, Clerk
Arthur Guray, clerk, is an attorney at Sally & Fitch, a Boston law firm specializing in complex litigation including cases involving environmental defense, general tort defense, and plaintiffs’ personal injury cases, as well as commercial contract and real estate disputes. Mr. Guray obtained his B.A. from UMass-Boston with honors, and graduated from Boston College Law School in 2008. While in law school, Mr. Guray worked part-time at the BC Legal Assistance Bureau doing eviction defense, social security benefits appeals, and domestic violence cases and served as a teaching assistant for the housing law clinic.
Donna Palermino
Donna Palermino divides her time between her young children and teaching consumer protection law at Suffolk Law School and an introductory law course for foreign attorneys at Boston University Law School. Donna Palermino is a thirteen-year veteran of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where she worked in civil litigation on a a wide variety of consumer protection and antitrust cases and a three-week civil rights trial and Supreme Judicial Court appeal upholding women’s privacy rights against Operation Rescue. Donna also enjoyed a stint as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow at the National Association of Attorneys General. Her legal work in civil rights and liberties includes focus on church/state separation and First Amendment litigation on behalf of newspapers. An expert in elections law, Donna is often asked to speak about legal and technological issues regarding election reform, worked with Harvard and Suffolk University on an exit poll for the 2008 election, and helped draft legislation for a state-wide ban on insecure electronic touch screen voting systems.
David G. Richardson, Treasurer
David G. Richardson is Managing Director International Tax Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In this capacity he advises many of the world’s largest asset managers on international tax issues. David has been very active in of the Bar of the City of New York, currently on the Private Investment Funds Committee and formerly served on the Business Entities Tax Committee, and the Africa Law Committee before serving on the Private Investment Funds Committee. David is also active in the American Bar Association’s Tax Section International Committee. David is an officer and longstanding bar member of Settlement Housing Fund, one of the largest nonprofit affordable housing corporation in New York City, and one of the founding board members of the Center for Work Life Policy.
Nancy Robinson
Nancy Robinson is the Executive Director of Citizens for Safety, a coalition of community leaders, law enforcement, public officials, faith-based groups and other
concerned citizens working to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and youth while supporting the rights of law-abiding Americans to own firearms.
Through education and advocacy, Citizens for Safety builds
support for solutions to stop the flow of guns to criminals at the source and reduce gun violence. Nancy also worked as the Print Communications Director for the New England Network for Child, Youth and
Family Services.
Robert Stewart
Robert Stewart is the President and CEO of Bobcat Training and Consulting, Inc. Prior to forming this company, Mr. Stewart was the Executive Director of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE). After graduating from Howard University and serving in the US Army, Mr. Stewart started his law enforcement career in Washington, D.C. where he served in a number of operations and administrative posts and was the department's Promotional Process Officer before becoming a major in the Tallahassee Police Department and the Chief of Police in Ormond Beach, Florida. Mr. Stewart collaborates with a number of criminal justice organizations, with a special focus on community policing, police use of force and police accountability. He is considered an expert on bias-based policing and has worked with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He monitored the Hobbs, New Mexico Police Department and is currently a member of the monitoring team working inthe U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department. He routinely conducts supervisory, management and executive development training for a number of organizations and consults on departmental audits and reviews as well as strategic development projects. Mr. Stewart has also served as the Training Director for the Louisville Police Department and Interim Director of the Rutgers University and Camden Police Departments.
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