Bud Ramey Author

Bud Ramey is the 2010 Public Affairs Silver Anvil Award winner of the Public Relations Society of America—the highest public affairs recognition in the world. His grassroots public affairs and humanitarian successes stretch across three decades. In 2012, Ramey and Bobby Kipper published No COLORS –100 Ways to Stop Gangs from Taking Away Our Communities.

Bobby Kipper, co-author of No COLORS, is founder of the National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence. A battle-hardened ex-cop with a quarter century of community policing in one of America’s toughest gang environments, Kipper organized one of the most effective crime prevention programs ever developed by the Justice Department. He has consulted for the White House, Congress, and governors and for communities across America.