Roward Pinderhughes is a member of the BOEN Leadership Council. Howard Pinderhughes, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Pinderhughes is the author of Race in the Hood: Conflict and Violence Among Urban Youth which examined the dynamics of racial violence in New York City and his forthcoming book, Dealing With Danger: How Inner-City Youth Cope with the Violence that Surrounds them, examines the production of youth violence and how urban adolescents think about, experience and make decisions about the use of violence. Howard is also a consultant with The Prevention Institute. Additionally, he served as the Co-Principal Researcher for the Center on Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence Prevention, one of the CDC’s Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention.