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.
Alexa Aviles
Alexa Aviles currently serves as a Program Officer at the Scherman Foundation, where she manages a nationally-focused Reproductive Rights Program, as well as, co-manages grantmaking for the NYC-focused Social Welfare and Arts & Culture Programs. Prior to the Scherman Foundation, Ms. Aviles consulted with philanthropic and nonprofit organizations on issues related to criminal and juvenile justice reform. Previously, she was a Program Manager at the JEHT Foundation, a national foundation focused on funding criminal and juvenile justice system reform; electoral reform; and expansion of the role of international justice norms and the rule of law in the U.S. As the Program Manager for the Juvenile Justice Program, she managed a portfolio of over $16 million in grants aimed at reducing the numbers of youth in contact with the juvenile justice system and promoting more humane and effective models of care for justice-involved youth. For five years, she worked for an individual donor providing seed grants to grassroots groups nationally addressing a number of social justice issues including environmental justice, racial discrimination, environment, and revitalization of Native American cultures and languages. Alexa is a graduate of Columbia University and CUNY's Baruch's School of Public Affairs, as well as, an alumna of the National Urban Fellows and A Better Chance, Inc. An active member in her neighborhood association and school Parent-Teacher Association, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young daughters.
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.
Richard Gardell
Richard (Dick) Gardell spent 31 years with the St. Paul, Minnesota Police Department, rising from patrol officer to Assistant Chief. During this time, Dick became a locally and nationally recognized leader in law enforcement, renowned for his evidence-driven approach to police administration and for his leadership and advocacy for community-based policing. As Assistant Chief of the 750-member St. Paul Police Department with oversight of the $70 million budget, Dick played a key role in the Department’s strategic planning, project management, budgeting and capital improvement. In June of 2006, Dick left to become President and CEO of 180 Degrees, Inc., a Minneapolis community-based non- profit organization providing correctional and mental health services to adult and juvenile offenders. The organization provides adult residential programs, youth group and individual counseling in English, Spanish and Hmong, case management, and an evening learning center. In recognition of Dick’s outstanding leadership of the organization and the quality of its re-entry programs and related services, Dick was awarded the 2010 Corrections Person of the Year by the Minnesota Corrections Association. Currently Dick is the Chair of Minnesota’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Group. In the past he has been National Chair of the National Coalition of State Advisory Groups on Juvenile Justice and Chair of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice. Dick has participated on numerous Minnesota advisory groups and organization boards focusing on juvenile justice and juvenile crime reduction. Dick is a longtime member of the IACP where he has focused on developing cooperative and innovative relationships between law enforcement and the private sector.
Allison Hall Hart, Ph.D.
Allison Hall Hart is currently on the Board of Directors and Senior Policy
Advisor for the Energy Coalition, an environmental non-profit
organization based in Irvine, California. Allison was with the City of
Irvine for seventeen years, and retired as its City Manager in 2005.
During her tenure as City Manager, Allison was the President of the
California City Manager?s Department of the League of California
Cities. She has over twenty years of experience in public sector and
non-profit management, and has consulted with numerous public,
private and non-profit organizations in management development and
training, human resources, strategic business planning and energy
planning.
Allison has been involved in numerous community volunteer efforts,
including serving on the Board of Directors of the Irvine Public
Schools Foundation, The Irvine Barclay Theater, Irvine Valley
Community College Foundation, and the Advisory Board of the
Children First Foundation. She is currently Board President of The
Africa Project, a non-profit humanitarian aid project based in Orange
County, CA.
Allison holds a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of
Southern California.
Marion Mattingly
Marion Mattingly is well known in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country for her commitment to juvenile justice and her tireless effort to push for the best policies for youth—in Congress, in policy circles in and out of the government, and to whomever will listen. Marion has extensive knowledge of juvenile justice issues ranging from policing to conditions of confinement, and is well known to both sides of the aisle. She is currently the Washington editor for Juvenile Justice Update, a member of the American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Committee, and involved with a range of youth-serving organizations including the National Juvenile Defender Center and the Big Brothers big Sisters of America.
Charles “Terry” Nichols
Terry Nichols is a Senior Director and Faculty member with The Advisory Board Company’s Talent Development division. He teaches workshops and presents research at leading hospitals and health care organizations in the United States, and has provided guidance to over 200 executive teams on curriculum planning, accountability for learning application, and leadership culture.
Terry brings over 15 years of experience in leadership development to his works with a diverse audiences to build leadership capacity and achieve measurable outcomes on critical performance objectives, and specializes in working with executive and physician audiences
Prior to joining The Advisory Board Company in 2004, Terry worked with Harvard Business School developing cases and teaching notes for professors to use in leading discussions of ethical issues in business situations. He also worked with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Center for Performance Excellence, Ernst & Young, and New York Life Insurance Company. He has published several Harvard Business School cases as well as a Project Management chapter in The Advice Business and has qualified as a certified public accountant and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
Terry has a BA and MA from Harvard and a BS in Business Accounting from SUNY.
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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