National Advisory Board

This body guides the Center's activities and assists in the development of future priorities. The board, which is composed of stakeholders and researchers, reviews and helps formulate the Center’s research and training agenda; reviews our strategic plans; critiques the Center’s research portfolio, and advises on new initiatives and directions.

National Advisory Board Members:

Todd Clear , Ph.D., Chairperson
Roland V. Anglin , Ph.D.
Fred Davie, M.Div.
Creasie Finney Hairston , Ph.D.
Ronald Honberg , J.D.
John E. Main , M.P.A.
Joseph A. Rogers
Reginald Wilkinson , Ed.D.
Douglas Ziedonis , M.D., M.P.H.

	Todd Clear, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Executive Officer of the Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice at The CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests include the neighborhood-level effects of high volumes of incarceration and the destabilization of community life with both the removal of residents to prison and their later reentry. His previous writings cover the topics of correctional classification, prediction methods in correctional programming, community-based correctional methods, intermediate sanctions, and sentencing policy. Dr. Clear has been elected to national office in the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
	Roland V. Anglin, Ph.D., is the Director of the Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation (IRCT) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. The IRCT is a national endeavor to support the transformation of marginalized communities and people through the production of relevant knowledge and public policy strategies. Dr. Anglin is also Executive Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity, a university-wide center devoted to facilitating research and enriching education on matters of race and ethnicity. Dr. Anglin’s study, Building the Organizations that Build Communities, published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, establishes a clear need for an expansive look at categorizing and assessing existing training programs used by housing intermediaries and locally based housing organizations.
	Fred Davie, M.Div., is President of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV). P/PV is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs and community initiatives, especially as they affect youth and young adults. Here, Mr. Davie has managed two of P/PV's national demonstration initiatives: Ready4Work, an ex-prisoner reentry project, and the National Faith-Based Initiative for High-Risk Youth. Prior to joining P/PV, he spent four years as The Ford Foundation's program officer in the Community and Resource Development unit. He joined the public sector in 1991 as special assistant to the president of the New York City Board of Education, then as chief of staff to the deputy mayor for Community and Public Affairs, and finally as deputy borough president in the Office of the Manhattan Borough President.
	Creasie Finney Hairston, Ph.D., is Dean and Professor of Social Work at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her current research focuses on the impact of incarceration and reentry on families and children, and child welfare policies and children of color. Dr. Hairston is affiliated with several boards and associations, including the board of directors of the African American Family Research Institute, Volunteers of America, and the Chicago Board of Health.
	Ronald Honberg, J.D., serves as the National Director for Policy and Legal Affairs at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). He has practiced advocacy law in the mental health arena for more than 12 years. During this period, he drafted many amici curiae briefs, provided technical assistance to attorneys, and worked with NAMI affiliates concerned with litigation that has an impact on the lives of people with severe mental illnesses. As Director of NAMI's policy team, Mr. Honberg oversees NAMI's federal advocacy agenda and its new Child and Adolescent Action Center. Additionally, he analyzes federal and state legislation and regulations; develops written testimony, legislative alerts and other submissions articulating NAMI's positions, and represents those positions before Congress and the Executive Branch.
	John E. Main, M.P.A., is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ann Klein Forensic Center. In that capacity, Mr. Main serves as the administrator of the psychiatric hospital in West Trenton and the administrator for the treatment program at New Jersey's Special Treatment Unit, currently located in Kearny and Woodbridge, New Jersey. Mr. Main has worked for the State of New Jersey for more than 25 years in a variety of roles in addition to forensic services. These roles include work on behalf of adolescents, adult populations, and the developmentally disabled. Mr. Main is an active member of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, forensic division.
	Joseph A. Rogers is President of the Policy and Advocacy Division of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse. As a national leader of the mental health consumer movement, he has played a major role in transforming the movement from a small number of relatively powerless groups and individuals to a large number of well-funded consumer organizations and consumer-operated services in every state. He has served on many boards and committees, including the congressionally appointed Task Force on the Rights and Empowerment of Americans with Disabilities, which was instrumental in passing the Americans with Disabilities Act. He has received several national and local awards for his advocacy, including the 2005 Heinz Award for the Human Condition, which is accompanied by a $250,000 unrestricted cash prize.
	Reginald Wilkinson, Ed.D., is President and CEO of the Ohio College Access Network. Before that he served as Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC). Dr. Wilkinson is past President of the nation's oldest and largest corrections organization, the American Correctional Association. Over the past 20 years, he has received service awards from such organizations as the National Governors' Association, the American Correctional Association, the Association of State Correctional Administrators, the International Community Corrections Association, the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, Volunteers of America, the Ohio Community Corrections Organization, and the Ohio Correctional and Court Services Association. Dr. Wilkinson has authored numerous articles on a variety of correctional topics.
	Douglas Ziedonis, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor and Chair of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Psychiatry. He is an internationally recognized leader in addressing tobacco use, mental health, and addiction, and has led several national initiatives for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Psychiatric Association (APA)'s Addiction Council, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Veteran’s Administration’s Health Care System. He recently served as an advisor to President Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and SAMHSA's Report to Congress on the Prevention and Treatment of Co-Occurring Substance Abuse Disorders and Mental Disorders. He has chaired the APA’s Task Force on Nicotine Dependence and served on the Nicotine Dependence Treatment Guidelines Workgroup. His research focuses on co-occurring mental illness and addiction, clinical epidemiology and services research, and mental health and addiction policy and program assessment.