Brian Corr
Member, Advisory Board
Brian Corr has worked for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts as Executive Director of the Police Review & Advisory Board since September 2010, and as Executive Director of the city's Peace Commission since 2008. Just prior to joining the municipal government, Brian worked as the first statewide field organizer for the ACLU of Massachusetts, where he organized "civil liberties task forces" across the state, including one focused on civilian oversight in response to allegations of police misconduct and racial profiling in the City of Lawrence, Mass.
In his community, Brian serves on the boards of directors of both the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, of the Central Square Theater, and on the honorary board of Cambridge Community Television. He also serves on the board of trustees of the DiDomenico Foundation, which grants scholarships to graduating high school seniors in and around Boston who will be pursuing a college or university degree, and funds local organizations supporting youth and youth activities. He served as chair of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee from 2016 to 2019.
On a statewide level, Brian has served as an elected member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee since 2012, has chaired the advisory board of the Haiti Development Studies Center at the University of Massachusetts since 2016, and has served as treasurer of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) since 2019.
Nationally, Brian is the immediate past president of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE), having served in that capacity from 2016 to 2019.
From 2009 to 2012, Brian served on the board of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, a Boston-area nonprofit that assists and empowers both families who have lost children to homicide and families whose children have taken a life — while conducting education and advocacy work to raise awareness of the causes and consequences of violence on individuals, families, and communities.