The City Council has approved and forwarded to Mayor Wu a list of nine residents, two of whom are from Dorchester, for potential service on the new Civilian Review Board (CRB) under the new Office of Police Accountability and Transparency (OPAT).

Dorchester residents Carrie Mays, of Harvard Street, and Benjamin Thompson, of Tremlett Street, are listed as prepared to serve on the CRB, which will be charged with reviewing and recommending action on complaints against the Boston Police Department.

The other seven names submitted by the Council include Mona Connolly Casper, of South Boston; Maria Dolorico, from the South End; Anne Hernandez, of Roslindale; Luis Lopez, of East Boston; Zachary Lown, of Roslindale; and Tara Register and Chanda Smart, of Roxbury.

Under the legislation setting up the office, Wu will pick three candidates from the council’s list of nine to serve on the initial panel, which comprises nine members in all, with the mayor having six picks. Given that Kim Janey appointed four members in October when she was acting mayor, Wu will name two more to fill out the panel. Janey chose Danny Y. Rivera, Jr., of Mattapan; E. Peter Alvarez, of West Roxbury; Dexter G. Miller, of Dorchester; and Joshua Dankoff, of Jamaica Plain.

Councillor Andrea Campbell said she was very happy with how the Council process played out, and noted it was one that had to be created from scratch – as did the OPAT. As it is one of her last acts as a councillor, she said it was exciting to see all the work come to bear.

“I thought the process went well and essentially we had to establish a new process,” she said. “I looked to the process I also established with the Community Preservation Act…I wanted to have folks in the community feel they had equitable access to be appointed and serve…We got a robust number of applicants.”

Campbell added that every councillor had a voice in the process, and that resulted in “a diverse panel of candidates submitted to the mayor” representing different backgrounds and different neighborhoods.

The newly formed OPAT had its first meeting in October, and the CRB, once it is up and running, will form a historic resident-driven process to review police conduct. Another part of OPAT unrelated to the CRB includes a resident board that will review the work of the Boston Police Internal Affairs Division.

The 20-year-old Mays, who lives on the Dorchester-Mattapan line, said she has spent most of her teen-age and college years focusing on police relationships and accountability within the community as a leader at the Teen Empowerment organization. The oldest of seven siblings, she said that while she is known for trying to forge healthy relationships between the community and the police, she is also shaped by being the daughter of two parents affected by incarceration and herself having been a victim of police misconduct when she was 18.

“What I’ve been known for is the racism dialogs in the community with youth and police…,” she said. “I’ve done a tremendous amount of work with the community and galvanizing their feelings and responses and what they would like to see in relationships with police…

“While I’ve done many dialogs about police misconduct, I’m also a victim. The day before my 18th birthday there was an incident where four of five officers held myself, my grandmother, and my mother at gunpoint in a case of mistaken identity in our own driveway. It really shaped my whole trajectory and response on police accountability.”

Mays is currently a student at UMass Boston but will be transferring to UMass Amherst in pursuing a degree in business administration with a concentration on marketing.

She said having someone who grew up in Boston, graduated from BPS’s Fenway High School, and has real experiences with policing is important. She said young adults are always on the forefront of historic change, yet rarely have a seat at the table where policy is made.

“Youth are some of the most ignored demographic and yet they still have to experience the effects of policies they have no say on,” she said. “This is an opportunity for me to have young people bring their perspective and voices. I am a young Black woman, and my peers constantly face police brutality and misconduct daily through hyper-policing and hyper-profiling. We see that a lot and this will be a form of representation and implementation of solutions. It’s really about solutions.”

If he is selected to serve, she said, she hopes she can educate the community as well about their rights in policing situations, and she can talk about offering trauma services to young people.

“The role I play and what I hope to do with this role is to hold accountable in a way that heals community,” she said. “This is history most importantly. This is the first time Boston has had a Police Accountability Board like this in 100 years.”

The other Dorchester nominee, Benjamin Thompson, did not return a phone call in time for comment on his potential service on the CRB.

OPAT Director Stephanie Everett deferred any comment on the ongoing process to the City Council.