Guns, gangs and violence… Welcome to this special edition of Sidewalk Skyline Podcast. We are in a series entitled ‘Gangland Preachers’.

In this episode we are going to hear part one of an interview with Dr. Anthony Hutchinson. We’re going to hear about his early formation as a gangbanger in Vancouver. His story is truly remarkable as he journeyed out of those early years into a life of incredible purpose.

Dr. Hutchinson is a leading gang expert who specializes in developing and evaluating youth gang prevention programs and presents nationally on anti-gang and gang exiting strategies. Dr. Hutchinson is often consulted on matters related to positive youth development, positive youth identity formulation, music as an intervention to positive youth development and innovative entreprenerial development and social enterprise opportunities for "at-risk" youth.

A current Department Head and Program Chair in Health & Human Services at Tyndale University, as an Assistant Professor at the school, Dr. Hutchinson teaches undergraduate level courses in Sociology, Social Work, Social Policy, and Developmental Psychology. Previously, Dr. Hutchinson has held a range of teaching and Masters' thesis supervision/ external reviewer posts for universities in British Columbia and Ontario including Royal Roads University, the University of Toronto, McMaster University and Wilfrid Laurier University.

Links:

http://www.dranthonyhutchinson.com/

https://www.tyndale.ca/university/faculty/anthony-hutchinson

Political Will As A Determinant Of Health In Ontario

https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1239&context=etd