DeKALB – DeKalb County State's Attorney Richard Schmack and DeKalb Police Chief Gene Lowery will participate in a panel and open forum Friday on gun violence.

The forum also will include Toni Tollerud, a Northern Illinois University professor of counseling and education, and Maylan Dunn-Kenney, an NIU professor of early childhood education, according to a news release. It is titled "Learning to Live Peaceably in Violent Times: Panel and Public Forum on Violence and What Our Community Can Do."

The free forum will begin at 7 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist of DeKalb, 158 N. Fourth St., the news release states. A potluck will start at 6 p.m.