Two long-time staff members at the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute — Alexandra Chéry Dorrelus and Rachel Rodrigues— have taken charge as co-directors of the Fields Corner-based organization that works to change society’s response to homicide and promote healing for homicide survivors and perpetrators and their families.

The institute was founded by Joseph and Clementina ‘Tina’ Chéry in 1994 to memorialize their late son, Louis D. Brown, who was killed in a shooting on Geneva Avenue in December 1993. Chéry Dorrelus, Louis’s younger sister, and Rodrigues have both been with the organization for more than fifteen years. They join Clementina ‘Tina’ Chéry, the group’s president and CEO, in the leadership roles.

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