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Juvenile Violence - A Life and Death Conversation
Aired September 05, 2007
We have tried mightily over the past 60 years to bring about equality in employment, housing and education. I propose that we also commit ourselves to equality in public safety. Poor people don’t deserve to be murdered, robbed or raped - or to live with it outside their doors - any more than anybody else.
JoAnne LaSala
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JoAnne LaSala is Director of Special Projects at Grand Center, Inc., a non-profit organization that fosters the cultural and physical redevelopment of the Grand Center arts and entertainment district. From 2002 to 2003 she was senior vice president and director, City Advisory Practice, at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City in Boston. From 1995 to 2000 she helped create and was the first president of St. Louis 2004, a regional public policy organization. Ms. LaSala started her career at Booz Allen Hamilton in the corporate strategy practice in San Francisco and served as budget director of the city of St. Louis from 1988 to 1992. She holds a BA from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
