Sheriff Michael Hennessey

Sheriff Hennessey's efforts to rehabilitate prisoners include a wide range of prisoner education and substance abuse recovery programs, such as SISTER, a drug treatment program for women, and the Garden Project, a post-release job-training program. Recidivism studies show that both of these programs significantly lower participants' rate of re-offense and return to custody.

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Al Corker

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Jan Dempsey

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Tijanna Eaton

Tijanna O. Eaton has served on the Board since May 2006. She has worked at a popular Bay Area biotech company for the last 10 years as a publisher. Prior to that, Tijanna worked as an orientation counselor/office assistant at the S.I.S.T.E.R. Program in County Jail #8. Prior to that, she was a recidivist and a homeless drug addict.

On March 2nd, she celebrated 14 years clean and sober, and is still active in 12-step recovery. Tijanna plays bass in a thrash band and has a 22-year-old daughter who will graduate from UC Santa Cruz in June 2008.

Delia Ginorio

Delia Ginorio is the Survivor Restoration Program Director for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP), a restorative justice program that focuses on offender accountability, survivor restoration, and community involvement to reduce recidivism, responsibly return ex-offenders to their communities, and prevent further violence.

Ms. Ginorio manages a team of survivor staff who reach out to the women, children, and men who have been silenced by violence in their lives, providing them with the support, resources, and protection necessary for leading healthy lives. She is dedicated to the empowerment and education of the disenfranchised. She also provides training seminars and workshops to community groups and agencies, both locally and nationally, on violence prevention that focus on intimate partner violence and is committed to providing outreach and education to community agencies on the restorative justice principles. As a survivor of violence, Ms. Ginorio understands the importance of providing services to all those affected by crime.

Ms. Ginorio served as the Secretary of the Board of Directors for 5 Keys since its inception in 2003; and, as Director of the Board, she is committed to the schools mission and goals and to 5 Keys becoming a model for restorative justice education.

Steve Good

Steve Good, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department Five Keys Charter School, has a record of successful school administrative / management experience. This experience includes working as a School Principal; Executive Director and Corporate Officer for the nation's largest operator of private schools; Principal and Director of a charter school and non-profit organization; and currently as the Executive Director of SF Sheriff's Five Keys. Steve's success includes being recognized by University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education for inclusion in their Compendium of Promising Practices in Education, and being named School Master of the Year, by Tom Crawford, Superintendent, Sonoma County Office of Education. Steve has written several articles for the Charter Journal, and was a Keynote Presenter at the Charter School Leadership Summit in 2007. He holds a Masters Degree in Education with an emphasis on School Administration.

Eileen Hirst

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Freya Horne

Freya A. Horne is Legal Counsel to Five Keys Charter School and is a non-voting Board Member. Freya started her career as a lawyer in the San Francisco Public Defenders Office in 1977. She worked as a trial lawyer until 1981 and then left to teach at the University of San Francisco Law School where she taught and ran the Criminal Law Clinic. She was there for ten years before going into private practice as a criminal defense lawyer.

In 17 years of private practice she has done trial work , appellate work, administrative law work and a small amount of civil practice. Freya joined the Sheriff's Department in August, 2007.

Sunny Schwartz

Sunny Schwartz is a nationally recognized expert in Criminal Justice reform and a 27–year veteran of the criminal justice system, who has devoted her career to reforming traditional incarceration well characterized by the stereotype of "idle and wasted down time". Ms. Schwartz speaks nationally about the establishment of Sheriff Michael Hennessey's program, particularly, the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP) an internationally recognized, award–winning restorative justice program that brings together traditionally opposing groups in order to comprehensively confront the costs of violence.

Ms. Schwartz and the RSVP method to stopping crime have been featured on national television including The Discovery Channel, PBS, and Larry King Live and was the recipient of the prestigious "Oscars in Government" Innovations in Government Award, sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and the Ash Institute.