Brian Corr is a dedicated advocate for social justice, community building, and police accountability, with nearly four decades of experience at the national, state, and local levels. A longtime member of the AFSC community, he currently serves on the AFSC Board of Directors and its Governance Policy & Practice Committee, and is a member of the Corporation. He previously served on the Board of Directors (2007–2011) and Board Executive Committee (2009–2011), as Clerk of the Board Program Committee (2009–2011), on the National Peacebuilding Executive Committee (2005–2008), and on the New England Regional Executive Committee (1998–2005), which he co-clerked from 2000 to 2005.
Since 2025, Brian has worked with Effective Law Enforcement for All (ELEFA) as Deputy Monitor and Community Liaison for the "Community Commitment: Louisville's Consent Decree," assessing progress by Louisville Metro Government and the Louisville Metro Police Department toward compliance and serving as the monitoring team's primary point of contact for community members. From 2008 to 2025, he served the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as Executive Director of both the Cambridge Peace Commission and the Police Review & Advisory Board — leading independent oversight of policing, coordinating trauma-informed community responses to violence and civic conflict, and building durable municipal-community partnerships.
An internationally recognized expert and trainer in civilian oversight, Brian is a past president of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) and served on its board for nearly a decade. He also serves on the Critical Incident Team of Riverside Trauma Center in Massachusetts as an on-call Trauma Center Responder, providing psychological first aid and post-traumatic stress management support in the immediate aftermath of traumatic events.
Brian has worked extensively on issues of peace and justice, serving as national co-chair of Peace Action, and currently serves as chair of the advisory board for the Haiti Development Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He also serves as vice-chair of the board of Community Resources for Justice and is actively involved in several nonprofit and arts organizations, including serving on the boards of Central Square Theater and José Mateo Ballet Theatre. He holds a B.A. in Russian Literature and Language from the University of Michigan and a Negotiation and Leadership certificate from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, with additional training in mediation, psychological first aid, group crisis intervention, and chaplaincy. A member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge in New England Yearly Meeting, he is also a musician, amateur photographer, and avid cyclist.