President: Jerry King
Jerry King joined the board of Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence in 2019. He has been HCGV’s board president since January, 2020. Jerry retired from the Indiana Public Health Association in 2018 where he had been Executive Director for over 20 years. His prior experience was in hospital community relations and in inner-city neighborhood leadership development and organizing.
Jerry is a member of the Indiana and American Public Health Associations. He has served on several public health oriented advisory boards, coalitions and workgroups in Indiana and at the national level. Jerry participated in the development of the Public Health Accreditation Board, the national program for health department accreditation, by serving on early workgroups that planned the organization’s formation. He has been a fellow and team mentor in the Mid-America Regional Public Health Leadership Institute. He is co-founder and past-president of the board of directors of Earth Charter Indiana.
Jerry received a BA in English from Indiana University at Bloomington and his MA in history from Butler University, Indianapolis. Jerry and his one-dog and three-cat family live in the Indianapolis neighborhood of Irvington.
Vice President: Dr. Paul Hanson
Paul Hanson is a retired professor of history from Butler University, where he taught for 38 years. He taught courses on European history, the history of the French Revolution, the history of human rights, and comparative world history and culture. He has served on the board of HCGV for over a decade now, and sits on the board of the Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center.
Secretary: Dr. Brad Yoder
Brad Yoder of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice at Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana, where he taught and also coached cross country and track and field. His concern about gun violence as a criminal justice and public health problem led him to join the board of Hoosiers Concerned about Gun Violence in 2000. Brad is an alumnus of Goshen (IN) College, Indiana University, and The Ohio State University, and an active member of the National Association of Social Workers Public Policy Committee. He has spoken to many varied groups about gun violence and gun safety issues, including testifying before the Indiana General Assembly.
Treasurer: Dr. Ramon Dunkin
Dr. Ramon Dunkin has been a member of Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence since 2003. He practiced Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in Indianapolis from 1964 to 2007. In his practice he saw the tragic human results of gun violence and thus wants to support the continuing effort to stop this tragedy.
Communications Chair: Alicia Noneman
Alicia is married with three children and lives in the Indianapolis area. She attended Butler University for her undergrad in Education and has a MA in Political Science from Ball State. She teaches US History to high school students in the Indianapolis area. In her limited free time she enjoys reading, playing tennis, and listening to podcasts. She is passionate about bringing civility back to political discourse, increasing civic engagement, and ensuring all kids have access to quality public education.
Dr. Marilyn J. Bull
Dr. Bull is a graduate of the University Of Michigan Medical School followed by a pediatric residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago and a clinical fellowship in Birth Defects and Genetic Counseling at Boston Floating Hospital. She has served on the faculty at the Indiana University Medical Center since 1976 where she currently is the Morris Green Professor of Pediatrics at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. Dr. Bull served as the director of the section of Developmental Pediatrics at Riley Hospital from 1982 until 2006. Dr. Bull has had a career long interest in advocacy and research in Injury Prevention, especially firearm violence and occupant protection in motor vehicle crashes. One of her current administrative responsibilities is as co-medical director of the Automotive Safety Program at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. She has Board Certification in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.
Dr. Stephen Dunlop
A retired psychiatrist, Dr. Dunlop practiced in Indiana from 1978 to 2010, with a hiatus to work in Australia and New Zealand in 2006. He served on the Indiana University Medical School faculty from 1978 to 2006. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
He was first interested in firearm violence from his experiences as an adolescent and from his practice of psychiatry. After publishing a letter in the Indianapolis Star on gun violence in 1999, he became active with Hoosiers Concerned about Gun Violence serving on the board of directors and as president. He has organized public events in Indianapolis, has given talks on the nature of firearm violence from a public health point of view to citizen groups, churches, and medical audiences, has testified before the Indiana legislature, and has had 23 letters to the editor and op-eds published in the Indianapolis Star.
Dr. Jon Macy
Jon Macy is a faculty member at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. He teaches in the public health administration concentration for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program. His teaching and research focuses on public health policies, including gun violence prevention policies, and how they interact with individual health behaviors. This includes communication and policy approaches to reducing gun violence.
Rebecca McCracken
Rebecca McCracken is the Coalition Coordinator for the Marion County Youth Violence Prevention Coalition (MCYVPC). Becca has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and spent the first 7 years of her career in the quality and engineering field before leaving to be a stay-at-home mom. Returning to the workforce, Becca looked for opportunities that aligned with her active volunteer work in gun violence prevention. Becca is an engaged citizen, committed to advocacy and doing the work to make a difference in her community.
Dr. David Mason
David Mason is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Butler University. His books include The End of the American Century (2008) which includes a discussion of America’s peculiar and tragic affliction of gun violence. He was a founding member of Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence in the 1990s, after two members of his church were murdered in their house by their son, who had just bought the murder weapon at Don’s Guns. But his concern with the devastating consequences of gun violence dates back to his teenage years, and especially the assassination of John Kennedy. He has served as President of HCGV, and other offices in the organization.
Peter Laramore
Peter Laramore is an attorney in from Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended Indiana University – Bloomington for his undergraduate degree and completed law school at the University of Chicago. He currently handles criminal appeals at the Marion County Public Defender Agency. Mr. Laramore has been a member of the board since 2021. He resides in the Fletcher Place neighborhood of Indianapolis.
Dr. Tina Zhang
Dr. Tina Zhang completed her undergraduate and graduate training in South Carolina, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where she earned her medical and doctorate degrees in 2016, followed by training in general pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology at the Medical University of South Carolina and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She and her family moved to Indiana in 2022, where she is a faculty member at Indiana University and Riley Children’s Health.
Communications Intern: Abby Hoehn
Abby Hoehn is a current Junior at Butler University. She is majoring in Strategic Communication and minoring in Anthropology and Geography & Global Societies. She connects to campus life by participating in the Butler University Honors Program, Alpha Chi Omega sorority, Manuscripts Literary Magazine, five fountains Student PR agency, and on Tuesday nights you can find her in The Butler Collegian newspaper office designing pages for the next print issue. She is so excited to be working with HCGV!