› Media NAACP Summit on Gun Violence
Saturday, August 25 / 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Media Borough Community Center. This event includes a light lunch.
he Media NAACP invites you to attend a Summit on Gun Violence. To open the summit, there will be an attitudes survey to assess level of community awareness and concern distributed from the registration desk.
9:00 am – Welcome (intro of Scott Charles), James Mason, President, NAACP Media Area
9:10 am – Keynote Speaker Scott Charles of the trauma unit – Temple Hospital
10:15 am Intro to Panels: Joan Duvall-Flynn, President, Pennsylvania, NAACP
10:20 am Panel 1 – Focus is National and Local Data on Gun Violence NAACP rep: Isabel Clark
Shira Goodman, Executive Director, CeaseFire PA
John Linder, Co-chair, Delaware County United for Sensible Gun Policy and former mayor of Chester, PA
Kayoun Copeland, Delco District Attorney
11:10 am Panel 2 – Focus is Community Impact on Gun Violence NAACP rep: Ellen Morfei
Rev. Vernetta Burger, Board President, Mothers in Charge, Inc.
Michael Cogbill, Organizer, CeaseFire PA Additional speakers pending
12:20 pm Panel 3 – Focus is to Explore the Role of Community Organizations NAACP rep: Judith Trustone
Rep. Leanne Kreuger-Braneky, PA House of Representative, 161st District
Deborah Lynn-Meier, Sandy Hook Promise and ASK
Jeff Dempsey, Program Director, CeaseFire PA
Bryan Miller, Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence
1:10 pm Panel 4 – Community Conversations – working lunch – Discussion set-up by Judith Trustone
1:55 pm Thank you and closing, James Mason
