Author: Sue Cardenas-Soto

Diana Hincapie, Case Manager at Enlace Chicago in Little Village, says her work in the community has healed her relationship with herself, her family, and her city.

Tashee Poplous is part of a team of experts who prepare hundreds of professionals every year in Community Violence Intervention (CVI) practices and standards.

Sharonda Giles, Director of the Crisis Prevention and Response Unit (CPRU) at Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), doesn’t just manage and operate a unique crisis intervention initiative; Giles is in the field herself, doing the work of monitoring large crowds and responding to critical incidents in real time.

Gina Ramirez, former Street Outreach Case Manager at New Life Centers, is intimately familiar with playing an essential role in her home communities of Brighton Park and Bridgeport.

Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), alongside other Community Violence Intervention (CVI) organizations, public officials, and advocates, convened to provide Chicago with a public safety update and mark the city’s historic decline in gun violence last year.

Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI) Chief Program Officer Domonique McCord was among many leaders at a public hearing convened by the Illinois Accountability Commission, testifying on the impact of Operation Midway Blitz.

On a quiet February evening in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, a couple dozen people gather, not for a workshop or a neighborhood meeting, but for something far more personal: laser removal of gang-related tattoos.

Leaders from Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P) organizations were among the new cohort for Latino Policy Forum’s 2026 class of the Multicultural Leadership Academy (MLA).

The City of Chicago recently launched its first-ever women’s Community Re-entry Support Center (CRSC) in partnership with the Women’s Justice Institute, in addition to awarding five community organizations serving residents returning from incarceration.

MPI Chief Program Officer Domonique McCord shared her insights on Chicago’s declining levels of gun violence with WBEZ’s Mary Dixon and Patrick Smith in a segment for Say More.