Our Board of Directors

Randy Shrewsberry

Randy is the founder and current Executive Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform. He is a former police officer, Crash Reconstruction Investigator, and Certified Fire & Explosion Investigator. He has spent over 30 years in both the public and private sector criminal justice field and has attended basic police training in Ohio, South Carolina and Indiana as well as 100’s of advanced training in investigations as well as other specialized areas in law enforcement. Randy has been a lecturer on criminal justice matters and has been admitted as an expert in the State of California, State of South Carolina, and the State of Indiana in Criminal and Civil court.

In 2016, Shrewsberry was sourced for an in-depth “Report on Police Brutality” in the New York Daily News. In this article, he argued that such poor training as he received is a significant contributor to needless public deaths, mass incarceration, and ethical lapses within Law Enforcement. Furthermore, the experience made him look around and see that though there are some national organizations studying police training, their approach is often two-dimensional and fails to consider the full consequences of police practice on impacted communities. This awareness prompted him to assemble a volunteer team of researchers to form the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform, the first nonprofit advocacy group focused on police training and education as a driver for social change.

Thomas Baker

Thomas is a Pat Tillman Scholar and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Tom’s father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all veterans, so it seemed natural to join the Army at eighteen. After completing his enlistment, Tom worked as a police officer for almost nine years. One night, while responding to a domestic violence call, he shot and killed a man who was attacking him with a knife. This experience contributed significantly to his decision to leave law enforcement and pursue academic research dedicated to understanding police use of force.

Tom feels that the use of force by law enforcement officers is one of the most pressing public issues of our time. In recent years, several cities across the United States have experienced civil unrest and violence in the aftermath of controversial police shootings.

As the public and policymakers grapple with this issue, high-quality research will be necessary for them to make informed decisions. Tom is dedicated to contributing to this body of research as both a Ph.D. student and, eventually, as a university professor. Tom’s research focuses on police-related deaths, police use of force, police defensive tactics training, and the role of violence in police culture.

Ivy Butters, CCIA

Ivy is a Certified Crime and Intelligence Analyst who has worked in both law enforcement and the private sector. Ivy graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and Corrections and a certificate in Basic Applied Forensic Science and Crime Analysis. She went on to work at a private investigation firm where she trained and supervised case managers and authored the company’s training manual. In 2018, she earned a Certificate in Crime and Intelligence Analysis from California State University, Fullerton. Ivy has worked as a Crime and Intelligence Analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department since 2019 and was named Civilian of the Year.

Ivy joined the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform in 2018 and is committed to addressing the issues facing our criminal justice system and their devastating impact on our most vulnerable communities. Ivy is a social justice activist and advocates for intersectional feminism. She is also an avid supporter of dog rescue, specifically Pug Rescue of Los Angeles.

Eric Carr, Esq.

Eric founded the non-traditional Family Law firm Unity Law, LLC in Erie, PA in 2007. The main practice areas of the firm included divorce, support, custody, adoption, protection from abuse, and civil rights issues. With a special focus on LGBTQ+ issues, Unity Law was the first law firm to offer such specific services to the Erie community. A life-long Erie county resident, Eric is a 1993 graduate of Northwestern High School in Albion, PA. Eric graduated magna cum laude from Gannon University with a BA in Political Science in 1997 where he was honored with the Gannon Political Science award given to the top graduate in that major field of study. Attorney Carr earned his JD from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2001, where served as a member of and section editor for The Internet Law Journal (TILJ). Eric is a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity and the Omicron Delta Kappa academic honor society.

Community service has always been a calling that Eric has chosen to follow. He is the former Civil Litigation (CLR Project) Attorney at the nonprofit SafeNet, Inc. in Erie, PA, where he served the legal needs of domestic violence victims and their families. Attorney Carr is also a Pennsylvania certified domestic violence counselor. He also worked as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Shad Connelly formerly of the Erie County (PA) Court of Common Pleas. Attorney Carr served a Judicial Externship with the Honorable Sean McLaughlin formerly of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Eric was also honored to be selected as the first-ever intern in the Northwest Regional Office of former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. Attorney Eric G. Carr is committed to working diligently through his involvement with The Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform to help advance social justice and equal protection of the law for all by advancing meaningful criminal justice training reform.

Mary Finedore

Mary is a pre-medical student who received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience with a minor in global health. She also completed the film production track at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed a year of graduate work in neural engineering and served as a health coach at Wingra Family Medical Center. There she developed her passion for working with under- and uninsured patients and learned how integrating a comprehensive understanding of social determinants of health can drastically improve the standard of primary care in the U.S.

In 2019, she completed an AmeriCorps term at the Comprehensive Care, Community, and Culture Program at the University of Chicago where she had the opportunity to see just how the standard of hospitalist care can be changed by integrating social aspects of health. She believes deeply in the goals of the Institute for Criminal and Justice Training Reform because, as a future care provider, advocating for the health and safety of patients shouldn’t be limited to just inside the hospital and clinic. She believes using public health and integrated social medical lens contributes greatly to the conversation of law enforcement training reform.

Francesca Lubbock

Francesca is a Columbia graduate, great-granddaughter of a Nobel Prize winner, and a financial consultant with an extensive background in math and finance. She worked at New York-based hedge fund Ridgecrest as a trader before transitioning into specialized technology development for Boston corporate law firm Keegan Werlin. She then launched iSwile, a company that produced personalized electric mobility devices and STEM toys for children that taught robotics, Boolean logic, and programming. As COO she handled all presentations, company strategic and document development, organizational structure, all patent applications, and filings, as well as all applications for expos and won numerous start-up recognition awards. She worked with production facilities in Shenzhen, China, and successfully managed numerous investor relations.

In 2017, she launched Delaware based cannabis REIT Kannalogic located in Northern California. There, she developed all investor materials including comprehensive pro forma with financial forecasting. She handled investor relations and worked directly with senior investors and help convey key messages to the viability of the company. She developed central business strategies of identifying specific municipalities with a depressed economy and high unemployment paired with underutilized agricultural resources and developed presentations for the municipalities of win-win strategies showing financial forecast on positive economic and social impact in hard terms while developing key relationships with these municipalities. This opened the door to expediting the licensing entitlement and permitting process, critical to the success of the company, and thus was able to secure revenue at a substantially higher rate than competitors while simultaneously impacting the quality of life for residents. She oversaw collaboration across the entire organization to ensure measurable goals were being met while working collectively as a team to ensure the optimization of internal operations.

Francesca spends her free time either volunteering at a local go-green organization, Sustainable Marblehead, or using her skill sets to help small business adapt refine their vision of what they want to create and make that happen by developing individualized step by step guides that address their needs ranging from SEO, operations optimizations, increase revenue, and optimization of new client acquisitions. She specializes in start-up operations, financial strategy, investor relations, team management, strategic optimization, acquisition of funding, and company development.

Victoria Richardson, MS

Victoria has both a bachelor's degree in Social Work from Grand View University and a master’s degree in Social Work focusing on children, youth, and families from University of Southern California (USC). She is currently working on her Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Behavioral Health. She has worked with youth from low- income and disadvantaged communities in school settings, after-school programs, and foster care.

Kimberly Spencer

Kimberly Spencer is a fundraising & marketing executive who has worked with a variety of nonprofit and for-profit organizations to grow revenue and increase brand reputation and awareness. She is currently the Senior Director of Development and Donor relations for Chalkbeat, a national journalism organization focused on the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education. 

Focusing on communications, marketing and fundraising, her past positions have included serving as the Vice President of Engagement & Resource Development for Public News Service, the founding Executive Director for the Arc of Larimer County, the Development Director for the Humane Society of Weld County, and the National Communications Manager for End-of-Life Choices.  

Kimberly holds a BS in Strategic Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Darryl Tolliver

Darryl has a background in the insurance industry. He has held positions as a claim executive; claims manager, director, and auditor; agent, compliance manager, and claims advocate. He is also a licensed independent adjuster in twenty-eight states and a California resident insurance producer in property, casualty, life, health, and accident insurance. Mr. Tolliver earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Morehouse College, where he graduated cum laude with a minor in pre-medicine.

Mr. Tolliver also earned a Master of Education – Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs degree from the University of Southern California. Mr. Tolliver also completed coursework in the Ph.D. program in Higher Education at Claremont Graduate University. Born and raised in South Los Angeles, he is passionate about promoting insurance ethics, compliance, and regulatory behavior, as well as social reform, systematic and racial injustice, and Black male resiliency.

Eric Vollmer, MA

Eric Vollmer serves the Institute as the leader in Fundraising and Foundation Grant Writing. Eric is also the Director of Development of Public Works Improvisational Theatre. He completed his master's degree in Communications at UC San Diego, where he worked as an Affiliate of the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Studies. Vollmer has also served as a Board Member of the United Nations Association, Los Angeles Chapter - and is currently serving on the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics Board of Directors.

Eric also served as an administrative assistant to the City of Redondo Beach where he served on a variety of committees serving seniors, teens, and drug and alcohol-challenged members of the community to enhance the quality of life of the city through Community Services. His interest in literary and cultural history is reflected in tributes he has created to honor the memory of Shakespeare, Emerson, Conrad, Orwell, Shaw, and Steinbeck, among many others. For twenty-two years, Mr. Vollmer has led thousands of audience members on a guided tour through remarkable pages of literature, poetry, prose, and has dramatized and discussed the Issues of the Day for the greater public of California.