Lisa Good

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Lisa Good has extensive experience working on violence reduction and with crime survivors in urban communities. She is currently the Program Director for SNUG/Ceasefire, an intervention initiative that brings together community members, faith leaders, and law enforcement to reduce violence in the city of Albany. Her experience working in communities harmed by violence, and personally having lost a family member to murder, led her to investigate what resources were readily available to people in urban communities, many of whom were living below the poverty line and predominately people of color. She discovered that the experience of crime victims in urban neighborhoods is largely ignored. She founded Urban Grief Team in 2001, a community based bereavement and crisis response team that offered support to those impacted by crisis, homicide, and death. She continues to make presentations on the crisis, trauma, and bereavement needs of victims in neighborhoods being disproportionately impacted by violence and homicide. Prior to directing the SNUG program, Ms. Good worked for 18 years at the Homer Perkins Center, a long-term residential drug treatment facility for adults. She is also an ordained minister and serves as an associate minister at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. She is a graduate of Maria College (AAS. in Liberal Arts) and holds a Bachelors of Science from Skidmore College. She has served in multiple board and volunteer positions and received numerous awards and recognitions, including volunteer counselor for the Albany County Crime Victims and Sexual Assault Center from 1997-2007, Cornell Cooperative Extension Volunteer HIV Educator from 1990-2000, former Vice Chair of the Capital District African American Coalition Against Aids, former board member of New York State Association of Drug Treatment Court Professionals, and 2008 Omega Chi Women of Distinction Award.