Caliph Muab-el, Executive Director of Breaking Barriers Mentoring Inc.; member of EXPO (Ex-Prisoners Organizing); and member of Wisdom, shares his story.Read More
My name is Priciliano Hernandez. I am a member of the Workplace Justice committee at Make the Road NY. I have lived in New York for 30 years. I came to this country to make a better future of myself. I have worked just about every type of construction job. When I arrived here, I …Read More
Lynn Dean of Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative shares her experiences regarding the challenges of getting a good job.Read More
Katrina Davis shares her perspective on House Bill 56 and why we should Ban The Box.Read More
Elder Boudrey of the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative/Ohio Organizing Collaborative speaks on why we need to Ban The Box.Read More
Of all the things a prisoner thinks about when he or she is incarcerated, what will happen when old age arrives is likely not one. The entire panoply of finance and personal economics – saving, credit cards, taxes, interest rates, mortgages – involves so many concepts that may be foreign to incarcerated individuals, with day-to-day …Read More
I am 47 years old and a mother of two. I have four grandchildren. At the age of 19, I was sentenced to 5-25 years in Ohio’s Reformatory for Women. Every day of my 5 year sentence, I worked the mandatory hours set forth by the institution. Some weeks I worked beyond 40 hours depending …Read More
Holà. My name is Jorge Antonio Renaud, and I am the newest member of the team dedicated to amplifying the voices and possibilities of men and women caged in American prisons. I lived in those cages for 27 years and am in thrall to the state of Texas until 2052. I used to believe that …Read More
I am a new organizer to the Center for Community Change, but I have been in the movement for social justice for seven years. It was only in this past year that I found the words to share what happened to me 20 years ago. When I was a teenager, my father was arrested and …Read More
By: Elois Freeman Arinetta has spent nearly her entire life in Tennessee. She was the youngest of three girls, raised by her mother who worked full-time at the local university. Arinetta said as a young girl, she could often be found browsing the stacks in the university library. Here she developed her love for books …Read More
