Marc Benardout is a writer/producer/director whose career in the entertainment and advertising world spans over 37 years on both sides of the Atlantic. A creative entrepreneur, rainmaker and strategist, Marc has lived in Los Angeles since 1997 when he left his native home in London, Read More
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Mission Moment – Nov 2020
Jill C. Mason Sacramento, California On April 11, 2004, I was a 26-year-old triathlete, with a master’s degrees, and a career in marketing with an engineering firm in Mountain View, CA. While on a bike ride on Easter Sunday morning, my boyfriend Alan Liu and Read More
Mission Moment – Aug 2020
Berkeley, California Officer Aron Belveal talks about a fatal DUI collision he witnessed on his way home from his shift. “We have to get these kind of people off the streets.” In a few weeks, Officer Aron Belveal will retire from his career in law Read More
Officer of the Month – June 2020
Deputy Marcus James Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, California Rancho Cordova Police Division Deputy Marcus James has 24 years’ experience in impaired driving enforcement and he is a Drug Recognition Expert. He has done over 2000 DRE evaluations. He currently focuses on training and mentoring officers Read More
Guest Author – May 2020
Art Acevedo Chief of Police Houston Police Department As the fourth largest city in the United States – and soon to be the third largest – Houston has always had a serious issue with impaired driving. In fact, Houston has consistently been at the top Read More
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week: Judges, Prosecutors Must Recognize Drunk and Drugged Driving as Violent Crimes
Only 8 states have laws that both protect the rights of victims of fatal drunk driving crashes and ensure jail time for offenders WASHINGTON — In January 2019, a judge in Idaho sentenced a man who had a blood alcohol concentration nearly three times the Read More
Voices of Victims: Rachel Colleen Foster
By Delia Foster The spring of 2016 bloomed with promise. My husband and I were the proud parents of five grown children who had found their way in the world. Our youngest daughter, Rachel, was finishing her final semester of college and working fulltime as Read More
Guest Author – February 2020
Chief Danny Sharp – Oro Valley, AZ Police Department Chair – IACP Highway Safety Committee In the 40 years since MADD’s creation, impaired driving crashes have continued to cause unnecessary death and injury, affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The National Highway Read More
Why We Walk: Emery Becker
March 18, 2018 changed our lives forever. It was 8:50 am on a Sunday morning when the phone rang. It was an unknown number from Los Angeles, CA and knowing that it was 5:50 am in California, I felt I should answer the phone. No Read More
A Thank You Letter This Thanksgiving
I understood the power of Mothers Against Drunk Driving soon after I landed in its lap, shattered by the sudden death of my 16-year-old daughter, Helen Marie. It was, after all, the men and women of MADD who showed me how to survive. To pick Read More