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Former Chief of Party Lainie Reisman

Lainie Reisman is a youth violence expert with 15 years of experience in development. She formerly served as the chief of party for the USAID Prevención de la Violencia (JPV) project in Mexico.

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3 Questions with Lainie Reisman: Preventing Crime and Violence in Mexico’s Roughest Places

Your program is working in Juarez, Monterrey, and Tijuana, and other areas selected in part because of their astronomical crime and violence rates. Juarez was once the “murder capital” of the world. What’s the key to preventing crime and violence these areas? We need reliable data and information and the willingness of officials at all…