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Wesley Dawson – Director
Director Dawson comes to Prince William County from the City of Baltimore, where he worked in the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, which focuses on violence prevention using holistic and public health-oriented strategies to improve community safety.
Director Dawson most recently served as the Associate Director and Community Engagement Manager for the office, where he was responsible for establishing and maintaining healthy, trauma-informed, and supportive community relationships for the agency. He was responsible for developing trauma-informed and community-centered programs, implementing, evaluating, and monitoring all programmatic, grant management, and budgetary deliverables associated with agency coordinated community engagement and opportunity programs, including approaches to address gun violence and the root causes of health-related matters.
Before that, Director Dawson worked for the District of Columbia as a special assistant and program analyst with the Department of Transportation and as a constituent services coordinator with the Council of the District of Columbia. In those roles, he developed and implemented community engagement and outreach strategies in partnership with communities, from conceptualization to implementation. These initiatives encouraged community and institutional engagement through inter-agency and multi-sector partnerships.
Director Dawson received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Public Administration from George Mason University.