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Valerie was the reentry coordinator in Fairfield County, Ohio, where she leveraged partnerships between law enforcement and behavioral health. In this role, she facilitated a local reentry coalition of community agencies and coordinated new behavioral health programming within the local jail. She also served as the Stepping Up coordinator, setting new goals and initiatives for her county focused on sober housing, jail screening tools, and a crisis stabilization facility. Valerie holds a BS in criminal justice from Ohio University and an MS in justice administration from Tiffin University. 

and led Western Mass CORE, a higher education in prison program that offers college courses inside local jails. During her tenure, she also chaired the Department of Criminal Justice and coordinated the Gender and Women's Studies program. Nicole's previous experience includes work as a research associate at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she served as the principal investigator of an NIJ-funded study on law enforcement relations with Arab American communities post-9/11 and conducted research on policing, violence prevention, victimization, and racial disparities in the criminal legal system. She received a BA in anthropology and African American studies from Wesleyan University and an MPA from New York University's Wagner School of Public Service.

the federal, state, and local governments and nonprofit agencies within the adult criminal justice system that received state and federal funding to implement evidence-based programs throughout Pennsylvania. She also worked as a discharge and release coordinator, state mental health case manager, and second chance reentry specialist. Tiana holds a BA in human services from La Roche University and an MS in criminal justice administration from Point Park University.