What are the Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) and Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA) coalitions?
The virtual teach-in via Zoom will educate participants on the aspects of Community Renewal Society’s (CRS) ECPS/GAPA police accountability work. Please register now to receive the meeting link and event reminders!
We are excited to announce our speakers:
Kevin Tyson, CRS Board Member, Imani Village Ambassador and Community Outreach Organizer from CRS member congregation Trinity United Church of Christ
Sully Peterson-Quinn, GAPA Coordinator
Grace Patino, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Executive Member
Kevin Tyson (He/Him) is an officer of the CRS Board of Directors and serves as Interim Treasurer. Born in Harlem, New York and now residing in Chicago, he is the Ambassador and Community Outreach Organizer for Imani Village, a social enterprise development in the Pullman community. He is also a Master of Arts in Ministry candidate at McCormick Theological Seminary.
He began his political activism in 1971 as a teenager in the Youth Committee to Free Angela Davis. He became a volunteer tenant and youth organizer for the Parade Grounds Neighborhood Action Project under the Flatbush Development Corporation in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as the paid co-campaign manager in 1983 for City Council District 45 candidate Maria Ramos in the Flatbush area. After moving to Chicago, Kevin worked as an organizer for the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and a volunteer organizer for State Senator Alice Palmer. With over fifty years in community and political activism, he has been involved in campaigns against the death penalty and food insecurity and to promote police accountability and voter registration.
Sully Peterson-Quinn (They/Them) is an Illinois native with family roots on Chicago’s south-side. They graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019 and have worked in electoral politics for the last 9 years in Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, and Virginia. Now, as an independent consultant in strategic planning and coalition building, Sully works primarily in Chicago’s police accountability space, helping non-profits to advance the campaign for safer neighborhoods through equitable and just community policing practices, community-led oversight, and transparent, accountable policing that serves the needs of all Chicagoans.
Grace Patino (She/Her) is a community organizer who first joined the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in 2017 in the fight for community control over the Chicago Police Department. Grace also participated in the creation and passing of the ECPS Ordinance and was a canvasser in the district council elections. For her paid job, Grace has worked as a paralegal and educational advocate for almost a decade advocating for the educational interests of children with disabilities.