This is how Whatcom residents’ ideas will help inform governor’s policing task force

The committee members advising Richey include Lewis, who also spoke at the Solidarity Rally, Ana Cecilia Lopez, who is an assistant professor of Law, Diversity and Justice at Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, Vernon Damani Johnson, who is a professor of political science and director of the Ralph Munro Institute for Civic Education at Western Washington University, Terrance Morris, a local activist who organized the Solidarity Rally and founded the Bellingham Unity Committee, Carrie Blackwood, a local labor law attorney who also previously ran for a state Senate seat, Heather Flaherty, executive director of the Chuckanut Health Foundation and citizen representative for the Whatcom County Incarceration, Prevention and Reduction Task Force, and Lisa McShane, a local political consultant.