Erroll Southers, USC’s associate senior vice president of safety and risk assurance, has been appointed to the California Commission on the State of Hate. Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement on Friday.
The commission will assess data on hate crimes in California, provide resources for victims and make policy recommendations to better protect people’s civil rights.
“As a state and as a nation, we face a rising threat environment created by extremist narratives and the people who espouse them,” said Southers, the former director of the Safe Communities Institute at the USC Price School of Public Policy.