ZeroNow was formed to increase the pace and scale of technology innovation,  ideas, and investment in school safety designed to bring about real change, now.

With your help, there’s nothing stopping us from getting to zero.

We accomplish this in (3) core areas

Ideas

Think outside the box.

  • Desensitized Video + Audio Podcast (Student-Led Interviews)
  • Monthly Sessions Webinars
  • Community forum
  • Contributed content
  • America’s Safe Campuses Documentary Series
  • PSA’s (Digital/Print)
  • Social Media
  • #ZeroNow
  • Influencers

Innovation

Invent the future.

  • Partner collaboration
  • Establish Standards & Interoperability
  • iTIP- Innovation Technology Introduction Program
  • Safety Innovation Lab

Investment

Fund school safety.

  • Grant assistance
  • Policy briefings
  • Advocacy

Join us as one unified voice and one movement to get us to zero.

Let's merge our passion for change, our relentless pursuit of innovation, and the calling to create safe and inspiring environments for our youth. Together, we can develop the ability see around corners to create the level of school safety we need now, and maintain it well into the future.

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Founding Partners

Partners

Founding Board of Directors

Ara Bagdasarian

Founder, Board President
Omnilert
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Bruce Canal

Education
Genetec
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Dr. Miles Davis

President
Linfield University
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Jeff McWeeney

Founder, Board Secretary
Additional
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Joe Samaha

President
VTV Family Outreach Foundation
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John Wood

CEO
Telos
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Josh Bronson

Deputy Executive Director
IACLEA
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Martin Renkis

VP Technology Architecture
Johnson Controls, Inc.
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Melissa Agnes

Founder
Crisis Ready Institute
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Michael Campanella

Student
New York University
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Scott Dunn

Chair
The Security Industry Association, Axis
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Founding Advisory Council

Andrew Ko

Kovexa

Founder

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Antoinette King

Credo Cyber Consulting

Founder

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Bob Jensen

Strat3

Founder

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Brandon Rhone

Navigate360

Director of Training

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Chris Grollneck

Active Shooter Prevention Project

Principal

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Cleveland Smith

Anne Arundel Community College

Deputy Director (ret) Public Safety

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Daniel Dusseau

Northern Virginia Community College

Director Public Safety

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Dr. Rich Contartesi

Ask School Data

CEO and Co-Founder

Former CTO/CIO Loudoun Schools, Kansas City Schools, Erie PA School Systems
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Dr. Theodore Stec

Lombard, Illinois School District

Superintendent

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E. Scott Geller, Ph.D

Virginia Tech

Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems

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Elisa Mula

EM Designs

Founder

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Gigi Thompson Jarvis

Jarvis & Associates

COO

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Greg Shaffer

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Supervisory Special Agent (Ret)

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Guy Grace

Partner Alliance for Safer Schools

Director

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Jason Friedberg

Blue Line Solutions

Vice President

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Jason Stoddard

Charles County Public Schools

Director of School Safety and Security

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Jeff Morgan

Lending Tree

Head of Security

Former Director of Security University Central Florida
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Jeffrey Kelly

Mutualink

Director of K12 Solutions

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Jessica Mertz

Clery Center

Executive Director

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Jonathan Kassa

North Penn School District

School Board Director

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Jose R. Figueroa

Johnson Controls

Former VP Johnson Controls

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Josh Bronson

IACLEA

Director Of Education

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Kirk Arthur

Microsoft

Worldwide Public Safety & Justice

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Lori Alhadeff

Make Our Schools Safe

President

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Marc Molina

Elmhurst University

Director of Public Safety

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Robert Iskander

GG4L

Founder

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Robin Hattersley

Campus Safety Magazine

Editor In Chief

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Ron Jarvis

Attorney

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S. Daniel Carter

SAFE Campuses, LLC

Founder

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Stephanie Gordon, Ed.D.

NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Vice President Professional Development

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Tom Badders

Telos

Director, Strategic Development and Government Relations

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Student Correspondents (Journalism Majors)

Angelea Preston

State University of New York College at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY

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Hannah Brody

The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

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Jillian Kasmore

State University of New York College at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY

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Michael Campanella

New York University

New York, NY

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