Who We Are

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Our work is firmly rooted in Martin Luther King, Jr’s moral leadership and the direct lineage we have inherited throughout Co-Founder and Director Emeritus Dr. Clarence B. Jones, as lawyer, strategic advisor, draft speechwriter, and close friend to Dr. King.

Co-Founder and Director Jonathan D. Greenberg taught international, communal, and interpersonal conflict resolution at Stanford for thirty years, and he has worked side-by-side with Dr. Jones for many years.

Going forward, we are proud to welcome School of Management Professor Allegra Chen-Carrel, our inaugural INSJ Faculty Fellow in Civic Discourse; Philosophy Professor Ronald R. Sundstrom, our inaugural King/ Jones Faculty Fellow; and Politics Professor Stephen Zunes, our inaugural Daniel Greenberg Fellow in Interfaith Nonviolence.

We are deeply grateful to the USF Office of the Provost for its dedicated support, to Dr. Sabrina Kwist, Associate Vice Provost, who has assumed administrative leadership to coordinate our work across USF, and to our Institute’s distinguished Leadership Council, for their strategic guidance.

Our Partners

We could not accomplish our work without our steadfast USF partners, including the Black Achievement, Success and Engagement Initiative (Dr. Emille Lawrence, director); the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition (Dr. Erin Brigham, director); the Loyola House Jesuit Community (Patrick Lee, S.J., rector); the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good; the Office of Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI, Dr. Sabrina Kwist, director); the Office of the Provost (Dr. Eileen Fung, provost); Peace and Justice Studies (Dr. Sadia Saeed, faculty director); the Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice (Dr. Aaron Hahn Tapper, director); University Council for Jesuit Mission; and University Ministry (Donal Godfrey, S.J., university chaplain).

Our impact is powerfully magnified by our extraordinary community partners, who further Dr. King’s legacy of creative nonviolence in their work every day, especially: Alive & Free: the Prescription to End Violence and Change Lives (Dr. Joe Marshall, founder); The Algebra Project, Cambridge MA (Ben Moynahan, director); Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS), Half Moon Bay (Dr. Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, executive director); Faithful Fools, SF Tenderloin (Silena Layne, Steward of Community); the Haight Street Art Center (Kelly Harris, executive director); NAACP, SF Branch (Rev. Dr. Jonathan Butler, president); Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, (Dr. Ken Butigan, strategist); San Francisco Interfaith Council (Michael G. Pappas, executive director); Young People’s Project, Cambridge, MA (Maisha Moses, director).

Leadership Council

Honorary Chair

Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Co-founder and Founding Director Emeritus, USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice

Co-Chairs

Lofton Holder
Managing Partner Emeritus, Pine Street Alternative Asset Management; Oakland, CA

Lateefah Simon
Former President, Meadow Fund and Akonadi Foundation; currently U.S. Congresswoman, 12th District of California, Oakland, CA

Leadership Council Members

• Norma Alvarez
  Philanthropist and board member, Women’s Foundation California
• Jennifer Azzi
  Women’s basketball champion and sports diversity and inclusion activist, Las Vegas, NV
• Latosha Brown
  Founder, Black Voters Matter Fund, Atlanta, GA
• Minnijean Brown-Trickey
  Little Rock Nine; nonviolence activist, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
• Dr. Ken Butigan
  Strategy director, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, Chicago, IL
• Dr. Clayborne Carson
  Founding director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute, Stanford University
• Daniel E. Cohn
  Partner, Farella, Braun & Martel
• David Cole
  Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor, Georgetown Law Center, and former national legal director, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C.
• Denelle Dixon
  CEO, Stellar Development Foundation
• John J. Donohue III
  Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
• Davison M. Douglas
  Former Dean, William and Mary School of Law, Williamsburg, VA
• Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley
  Chair of Interfaith Power and Light, Atlanta, GA
• Lindsay Harper
  US Climate Action Network (USCAN), Atlanta, GA
• Prakash Janakiraman
  Co-Founder and chief architect, Nextdoor
• J.T. Johnson
  Civil rights era field worker and lifelong nonviolence activist, Atlanta, GA
• Rev. Nona Jones
  Founder and director of Faith & Prejudice, and pastor, Open Door Church, Gainesville, FL
• Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor
  Founding Director of Peace Studies, California State University, Fresno
• Grande Lum
  Professor of Law and Director, Gould Center for Conflict Resolution, Stanford Law School; Former Director, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice
• Dr. Joseph E. Marshall Jr.
  Founder and Director, Alive & Free: The Prescription to End Violence and Change Lives
• Dr. Janet Martinez
  Former Professor of Law and Director, Gould Center for Conflict Resolution, Stanford University
• David Meggyesy
  Former NFL player and founder, Evolutionary Sports Collective, Nordland, WA
• Lindbergh Porter
  USF Board member; senior counsel at Littler Mendelson, and citizen activist, Holmes County, MS
• Professor Margaret Russell
  Santa Clara University School of Law
• Adam Swig
  Founder of Value Culture, and USF board member
• Ambassador Andrew J. Young
  Atlanta, GA
• Dr. Stephen Zunes
  Professor of Politics, and distinguished nonviolence scholar, University of San Francisco