Members

Sue Rahr began her 43-year law enforcement career as a deputy with the King County Sheriff’s Office in 1979 and worked her way up through the ranks until she was elected Sheriff in 2005, where she served as Sheriff for another seven years. She was responsible for over 1,000 employees, a $150 million budget, contract police services in 12 cities, and transit policing for the Seattle/Puget Sound region. She led KCSO to CALEA National Accreditation in 2010 and was awarded “2010 Elected Official of the Year” by the Municipal League.

In 2012 she was appointed Executive Director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission where she served for nine years and was responsible for training all city and county law enforcement and corrections officers in the state, as well as many other criminal justice professionals.

Catherine Sanderson is the Poler Professor of Psychology at Amherst College. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with a specialization in Health and Development, from Stanford University, and received both masters and doctoral degrees in psychology from Princeton University. Her research has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. Professor Sanderson has published over 25 journal articles and book chapters in addition to four college textbooks, middle school and high school health textbooks, as well as the Introduction to Psychology course for The Great Courses. In 2012, she was named one of the country’s top 300 professors by the Princeton Review.

Dr. Ervin Staub is Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Founding Director of its Ph.D. concentration in the Psychology of Peace and Violence. He is the former President of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence (APA Division 48) and of the International Society for Political Psychology.

Born in Hungary, as a young child he lived through Nazism, and then communism. He escaped from Hungary at age 18 after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was defeated, lived in Vienna for two years, and then came to the U.S. He finished his undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota and received a Ph.D. at Stanford. He has taught at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Hawaii, and the London School of Economic and Political Science.

Declan Sullivan, M.P.A., came to the world of active bystandership through his experience as a Senior Program Associate at Georgetown University’s Center for Innovations in Community Safety. In 2021, Declan served as part of the leadership team for Project ABLE (Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement). Declan supervised all ABLE training operations, oversaw the agency application process, and led ABLE’s statewide initiatives in Washington, Colorado, and Utah.

During his time at ABLE, Declan was critical in allowing the expansion of the program to hundreds of police departments all over the United States and Canada. Thanks largely to Declan’s efficient and inspiring leadership, ABLE’s list of agencies grew from a small number of agencies to more than 300 police departments in three short years. In its early years, ABLE was understaffed, requiring Declan to play multiple positions at the same time. He brought outstanding administrative skills, deep respect for law enforcement, and empathy for police officers and the communities they serve and protect.

For more than 5 decades, Martin has served in a variety of important criminal justice leadership roles. He began his career as a NY State Parole Officer in 1969. He later served as Executive Director and CEO for the NY State Division of Parole and Superintendent of Hudson Correctional Facility.

Mr. Horn served as a member of Governor Tom Ridge’s Senior Staff as Secretary of Administration for the State of Pennsylvania. He also chaired the state’s Tobacco Settlement Investment Board, the Pennsylvania Employees’ Benefit Trust Fund, and the JNET Council (Justice Network).

From 1995 until 2000, Martin Horn was Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Corrections. During his tenure, staff and inmate safety and health care improved, suicides were reduced, three long-standing consent decrees were dissolved, and classification and information systems were modernized. He created an innovative addiction treatment program, improvements to the provision of mental health services, and innovative release programs for inmates with mental illness.