Kristen Stamile Kinkopf |

Kristen Kinkopf serves as Executive Director of The Richman Foundation, a Baltimore-based private foundation supporting services and programs that strengthen the Baltimore community and create opportunities for individuals, especially children, to grow, prosper, and lead meaningful lives in safe, healthy environments.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in English, Kristen also holds a juris doctorate from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Her career spans nearly three decades in mission-driven organizations, including Catholic Charities of Baltimore, where she held various leadership roles, and Notre Dame Preparatory School, where she served as Executive Director of Institutional Advancement.

Kristen currently serves on a number of professional boards, including the State Early Childhood Advisory Council and the Maryland Philanthropy Network. Her volunteer work includes roles with the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, Notre Dame Preparatory School, and the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.

In 2025, Kristen was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by The Daily Record, and, in 2023, she received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal from the Vatican upon nomination by Archbishop William Lori, recognizing her distinguished service to the Catholic Church.

Heather Darney |

A Towson University graduate and Baltimore native, Heather Darney serves as Vice President of Community Relations for the Baltimore Ravens and Executive Director of the Ravens Foundation. After working for the Baltimore Orioles for four years in special event management, she joined the Ravens in 2011 to provide oversight of the team’s philanthropic initiatives. In her role as vice president of community relations, Darney is responsible for developing, implementing and administering the team’s overall strategic charitable outreach efforts. This includes orchestrating over 300 player appearances annually that include hospital and school visits, food, toy and book drives, and fitness, education and literacy events. Additionally, Darney continues to serve as the executive director of the Ravens Foundation, Inc., where she manages and directs all fundraising, grant programs and initiatives executed by the team’s charitable arm. Through this dual role, Darney annually manages the distribution of millions of dollars in combined contributions to over 2,000 nonprofit organizations throughout the Baltimore area. In 2019, Darney was named one of Baltimore Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” honorees.

Yvonne Wenger |

Yvonne Wenger is Director of Public Relations for the Archdiocese of Baltimore. A longtime communications professional, she is helps to lead and manage communications, government affairs, strategic outreach, and external partnerships for the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In her role, she also helps to build a culture of peace in Baltimore through a ministry that serves the families of homicide victims and gets guns off the street.

Ms. Wenger has nearly 20 years of experience as a journalist, including about a decade spent at The Baltimore Sun. Her in-depth research and reporting on poverty and the root causes of challenges in Baltimore City often led to greater scrutiny of existing problems and improvements in policies and structural practices. She spent a year investigating how the child support system traps low-income fathers in cycles of debt, and the Pulitzer Center-funded project gave momentum to reforms that benefit children, fathers and mothers. Ms. Wenger also serves as a board member on Rebuilding Together Baltimore, a nonprofit that works to help families in their homes through no cost home repairs to underserved communities. She lives in Baltimore City with her husband and daughter.

Heather Warnken |

Heather Warnken serves as executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore School of Law, working to support community driven efforts to advance public safety and address the harm and inequity caused by the criminal legal system. She leads the Center’s policy advocacy work at the state, local and national levels, including contributing to numerous legislative efforts in Annapolis and successful passage of multiple recent reforms including the Expungement Reform Act of 2025 and Victim Compensation Reform Act of 2024. Warnken serves on the Executive Committee of the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative, a historic initiative launched in 2023 by Public Defender Natasha Dartigue and Attorney General Anthony Brown to address mass incarceration and its extreme racial disparities, and co-chairs the Law Enforcement Policies and Practices Work Group.

Prior to coming to UBalt, she served as visiting fellow at the US Department of Justice in the first-ever position dedicated to bridging the gap between research, policy and practice to improve the response to communities impacted by crime victimization, and as legal policy associate at the Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She was recently recognized by The Daily Record as a ‘Leader in Law’ and as a ‘Gamechanger’ by Baltimore Magazine.

William Moore |

Willy Moore was hired as the first employee of Southway Builders in 1993, and he grew through the ranks of the organization to become President in January of 2016. Under his leadership, Southway Builders has expanded their geographic footprint and client base as a general contractor who is focused on Quality, Dependability, and Integrity, with specialties in multi-family residential, commercial, adaptive reuse, and historic restoration projects throughout the mid-Atlantic region and North Carolina. In 2018, Willy established the Southway Builders Charitable Trust, a 501-(c)3 charitable organization that is funded by profits from Southway Builders, to support community work around workforce development, education, food scarcity, homelessness, and public safety.

Andrew Vetter |

Dr. Branville G. Bard, Jr. |

Branville G. Bard, Jr. serves as the Vice President for Public Safety for all Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine campuses and facilities worldwide, except for the Applied Physics Laboratory. In April 2023, Dr. Bard was also appointed as the inaugural Chief of Police for the Johns Hopkins Police Department (JHPD).

Chief Bard joins Johns Hopkins and has over 28 years of distinguished experience in law enforcement and public safety. He is recognized for his reform-oriented approach and is deeply committed to the principles of procedural and social justice. Chief Bard believes it is possible to keep communities safe from crime while also protecting the civil rights of community members. Most recently, he served as the police commissioner for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He began his career with the Philadelphia Police Department, where he dedicated over two decades of service before retiring as a police inspector. Following his retirement, Chief Bard assumed the role of chief of police and director of public safety for the Philadelphia Housing Authority, further underscoring his dedication to creating safe and equitable communities.

As a dedicated law enforcement leader, Chief Bard has successfully driven transformative change in two agencies. His career is marked by exceptional leadership and an impressive ability to cultivate strong relationships with residential, business, and religious communities. These vital connections have forged powerful partnerships that effectively reduce crime and address pressing quality-of-life issues, all while significantly enhancing community engagement with the police. Chief Bard’s commitment to collaboration illustrates his profound impact on community safety and trust.

Andre Davis |

Andre M. Davis served for thirty years as a judge on four courts: the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District court, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, and the Maryland state District Court. Before his appointment as a judge, he had served as an appellate attorney for the Civil Rights Division for the U.S. Department of Justice and as an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore. Upon retiring from the bench, the Mayor of Baltimore appointed Davis as City Solicitor. In that role, which he held until March 2020, he led the City Law Department, comprised of more than one hundred lawyers and support personnel, and served as one of five members of the City’s Board of Estimates, the municipal spending authority. Davis received a BA in American history from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Law.