This session will explore collaborations between researchers and practitioners working in community-based violence intervention, highlighting lessons learned and opportunities for shared impact.

Panelists:

• Teny Oded Gross, founder and CEO of Institute for Nonviolence Chicago 

• Andrew V. Papachristos, Professor of Sociology and the Faculty Director of CORNERS: the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science at Northwestern University 

• Sam Castro, Chicago Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Worker This session will explore collaborations between researchers and practitioners working in community-based violence intervention, highlighting lessons learned and opportunities for shared impact.