Safety in Numbers: Partnering to Protect Against Hate

Renée Hall is a respected thought leader who is recognized for her 21st Century Policing Leadership Experience She is the Founder and CEO of TUU Enterprises, LLC., Law Enforcement Consultancy Firm. She provides assessments of police departments for areas of potential improvement in their policies and procedures, to avoid unnecessary risks and reduce negative outcomes. She also provides strategic recommendations and ideas for modernization and paths in policing that better unite police agencies with the communities they serve.

Hall currently serves as the National 1st Vice President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE). She also holds the position of Executive Director of the Community Solidarity and Safety Coalition (CSSC), an alliance comprised of non-governmental and non-partisan leaders working to collectively address critical community safety issues, shaping community responses to solidarity and safety challenges and partnering with federal, state, and local governments to keep communities safe from rising threats like domestic terrorism.

Renée served most recently as chief of police for the Dallas Police Department, leading a 4,000-member, nearly $600 million dollar law enforcement agency through proven 21st century best practice strategies. She is most recognized for technology innovation, data driven decision making, community outreach, officer wellness and creating department reform and accountability designed to reduce crime and modernize the effectiveness of the city’s police force. Hall was the first woman to ever lead the Dallas Police Department, and one of only a very few African American women to serve as police chief nationwide.

She oversaw the department during one of the most challenging, unprecedented, and tumultuous times in modern history. She led through the difficult COVID 19 pandemic shutdowns in early 2020 and steered the department through Dallas’s portion of the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the killing of Mr. George Floyd, by police.

Prior to leading in Dallas, Renee’ spent nearly 20 years in the Detroit Police Department in a series of increasingly responsible roles, beginning as a police officer and culminating as the department’s deputy chief of police.

Reneè is a Harvard University Fellow of the 2022 Advanced Leadership Initiative. She also served as a Senior Editor of the Harvard Social Impact Review. Renee’ has developed, in collaboration with Harvard Professional Schools and academic departments, a comprehensive program that seeks to provide intergenerational employment, increases literacy, and creates opportunities for wealth building through financial education and training. The program will also address the intersection between law enforcement and economic inequalities in communities of color.

While at Harvard, Hall, in partnership with Saul Glick, a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Law School and former London Metropolitan Police Officer, launched “Police for America.” An 8-week pre -police academy that prepares recruits to challenge the status quo of policing culture through Ivy League academic training, leadership, organizational management/ development, and mentorship.

Reneè also serves as a Senior Fellow with Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm, where she assists in finding innovative organizations providing social impact through social justice, transparency, and accountability, to provide funding.

Reneè earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Grambling State University, as well as two Master of Science degrees from the University of Detroit Mercy in Security Administration and Intelligence Analysis, respectively. She is also a graduate of the 262nd Session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and the Major Cities Police Chief’s Association Police Executive Leadership Institute (PELI). She is a member of International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Juvenile Justice and Child Protection Committee, The International Women’s Forum (IWF), and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated

Ray B. Shackelford is a Native Houstonian passionate about problem solving to develop transformational solutions that ensure the community is better than he found it. Professionally, he has accumulated a diverse work experience spanning education, non-profit, the private sector working for corporations like Coca-Cola, Grainger, and Southwest Airlines. He also has experience as an entrepreneur launching his own social impact consulting firm, Ozark Street, in 2019.

In July of 2024, Ray accepted the role of Vice President of Equitable Justice for the National Urban League (NUL). The highlight of his first 6 months included serving as coleader for the 2024 nonpartisan “Reclaim Your Vote” campaign and supporting the build out of the Equitable Justice and Strategic Initiatives (EJSI) Division’s new team. In 2025 his top priorities include year-round civic engagement, the anti-hate political violence portfolio, civic education and several other policy portfolio areas in support of NUL’s more than 92 affiliates. In total, he has been involved with the NUL for more than 23 years.

Ray’s education consists of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration-Finance from Morehouse College, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston and a Master of Policy Management from Georgetown University.

He has also been nominated twice by the mayor to serve on boards for the city of Houston. The first in 2016, the Independent Police Oversight Board (IPOB), where he reviewed use of force complaints and made recommendations on training, updates to the general orders, and in some cases discipline. In 2020, Ray was appointed to the Houston Housing Finance Corporation (HHFC). On this board he works to provide gap financing on affordable housing projects, ensuring that they are both profitable and in the best interest of the community. In 2024, he was made a federal appointee for the inaugural HBCU MSI advisory committee for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Outside of his board service Ray has also worked to educate the community consistently through various platforms at one point serving as a host on podcast, radio and tv. All these local efforts have been focused on educating the community on the civic process and providing actionable steps to make a difference.

He is a lifelong member of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church where he serves on the Social Justice Ministry. Ray is also a proud member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated.

Ray wears a lot of hats, but none is more important to him than the hat of “father.” Ray is the proud father of a fifteen-year-old daughter, Jordan.

Jackie Subar serves as the National Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In her capacity she is responsible for bolstering national partnerships and for driving ADL’s critical efforts working with communities and lawmakers alike to advance the organization’s mission to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Jackie has served in many capacities at the intersection of advocacy and community building. Before joining ADL, Jackie was the Assistant Director for American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Department of Policy and Political Affairs. In this role, she was responsible for advancing AJC’s mission on Capitol Hill; for fostering strategic relationships in the U.S. House and Senate, and for managing AJC’s legislative work on areas related to civil rights, hate crimes, religious minorities, domestic terrorism, and online hate. She worked closely with the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations. Jackie has spent her professional career in Washington where she has worked to foster intergroup and diplomatic relations. She obtained her master’s in Public Administration from the George Bush School at Texas A&M University and prior to graduate school spent a year studying in Israel.