Speaker Biographies - Underage Drinking Enforcement Training ...

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Jamie McCarville
Jamie McCarville is a volunteer on the Dane County (Wisconsin) Coalition to Reduce Alcohol Abuse. She works
with community partners to implement environmental substance abuse prevention strategies to reduce the
effects of alcohol misuse and abuse and restore accountability in those who manage and those who consume
alcohol for public safety and well-being. She is a Human Service Program Coordinator for the Wisconsin Division
of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Bureau of Prevention Treatment and Recovery.
Marilyn McCoy Roberts
Marilyn McCoy Roberts is OJJDP’s Deputy Administrator for Programs, overseeing the Office’s three program
divisions. Formerly, she was the Director of OJP’s Drug Courts Program Office, which administers a drug court
grant program and provides financial and technical assistance to drug courts. She has staffed and directed
national research projects and has written on many court administration topics, including legislative relations,
substance abuse and the courts, and gender bias in the courts.
Nancy McGee
Special Agent Nancy McGee, with the Missouri Department of Public Safety for 26 years, works to enforce
Missouri’s Liquor Control Act. Currently, she administers the State’s alcohol compliance check program and
coordinates the efforts on college campuses and with community coalition groups. She is an advisory board
member to the SMART Online Server Training Program and has trained thousands of people on a wide range of
topics. She has been a consultant to the OJJDP/EUDL Program since 2002.
Barbara McMorris
Barbara J. McMorris, Ph.D., is a Sociologist and Senior Research Associate at the University of Minnesota’s
School of Nursing. She leads analyses for community-based intervention projects targeting youth risk behaviors.
Since 2001, she and her colleagues have worked on the International Youth Development Study to investigate
the development of alcohol use in students in two countries that have adopted different policies toward underage
drinking: zero-tolerance in the United States and harm minimization in Australia.
Beatriz Mendez
Beatriz Mendez, has worked for more than 6 years in the prevention field for Lewis County Public Health and
Social Services, where she has been instrumental in expanding the Reducing Underage Drinking program to
include extremely rural areas of Lewis County and in engaging youth in the smaller school districts. She has also
played an integral part in the planning of the youth track for the Washington State Prevention Summit for the last
3 years.
Kerry Mensior
Sgt. Kerry Mensior has been a police officer for the San Diego Police Department for 22 years. His has worked
every patrol division in the City of San Diego. Currently, he is an Accident Reconstructionist in the Accident
Investigation Bureau. He has taught at three local colleges and two Police Academies, and has trained communities
in policymaking and law enforcement nationwide. Using his combating UAD experience, he helped create
and administer grant programs, bringing $1.3 million to his department.
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