Erika Rosenberg has been in recovery for over two decades. She brings to the FOR-NY board experience in data analysis and synthesis, strategy development, nonprofit management, stakeholder engagement and research and writing. Erika leads the Center for Governmental Research, a Rochester-based nonprofit research and consulting organization with a mission to support positive change in communities. Before joining CGR in 2005, she was a newspaper reporter, including 5 years in Albany covering a range of issues including mental health and addiction. Erika is passionate about social justice, anti-racism, nature, spirituality, tennis and raising her two children.

Dr. Felecia Pullen specializes in program and policy development for the fields of substance use disorders, teen misuse prevention, non-medical models of harm reduction, and recovery supports. Much of her focus is on the design and implementation of community-based initiatives. Through multi-tiered approaches, she believes we can prevent the onset of use, reduce overdoses resulting from misuse, increase the attainment of recovery capital, and promote healthier communities.

Dr. P. founded and is the President & CEO of Let’s Talk SAFETY, Inc., a not-for-profit which includes SAFE in Harlem, a SAMHSA-funded teen-led substance misuse prevention coalition; The PILLARS, Manhattan’s first OASAS-funded Recovery Community & Outreach Center; and The SAFETY Net, a teen-designed Clubhouse in Harlem. Each division offers holistic, complementary and alternative approaches to recovery, for individuals and family members who are loving someone in active use.

Dr. P.’s advocacy and activism has been recognized nationally and throughout New York CIty & State. She has delivered numerous workshops in Culturally Responsive Recovery at SAMHSA’s National Leadership Forum; has twice been appointed by former NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio to the City’s Municipal Drug Strategy Council; currently sits on the FOR-NY Recovery Community Steering Committee, and has produced several substance misuse awareness campaigns for the State.

Through the strength of her partnerships with NYPD, The NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene, Colleges and Universities, Public and private healthcare systems, and political figures she has delivered programs and services…free of charge…to over 20,000 individuals.

Her work is inspired by the vision of a drug-misuse-free world…one child, one family, and one community at a time!

Jonathan P. Edwards is a social scientist, public health professional, licensed clinical social worker, and a person in long-term recovery living in New York City. He contributed to the development of, and subsequently led, the largest peer support workforce within the New York City Hospital system at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn. Jonathan’s contributions to peer support include research on job satisfaction, involvement with the National Association for Peer Supporters (N.A.P.S.) in developing National Practice Guidelines, and independent consultancy. He is also a Certified Peer Specialist and Certified Personal Medicine Coach. Dr. Edwards also serves as adjunct faculty at Columbia School of Social Work, and was instrumental in planning and facilitating the inaugural “Surviving Race Dialogues” in Savannah, Georgia in August 2022, which was hosted by Surviving Race: The Intersection of Injustice, Disability, and Human Rights. He is also the recipient of several awards and is co-editor of numerous articles and the forthcoming book, “How It’s Done: Wisdom from Peer Support Specialists and Supervisors”. Jonathan has particular interest in collaborating on participatory action research within the Harlem Community to explore strengths, resiliencies, and recovery focused approaches among people who use drugs and are considering decreasing risk through various pathways including harm reduction and abstinence. Jonathan received his Ph.D. and M. Phil. in Social Welfare from City University of New York Graduate Center, Masters in Social Work from Hunter College, and Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies from City University of New York.