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Neil Barsky
September 9th, 2014
As digital news outlets have increased in numbers, nonprofit news organizations have surfaced online as exemplars of high-quality investigative reporting. The Marshall Project, which began publishing in mid-2014, will serve as another source for digital news, covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Its publisher, Neil Barsky, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and director of the film KOCH, stated in an interview with Neiman Journalism Lab, "A nonprofit organization has to sustain itself by being excellent and having an impact. So does for-profit, frankly. But the difference is there are people of good will out there who are willing to support us if we do great work."
Brandon E. Chrostowski
September 23, 2015
While discussion about the best way forward continues to build, EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute founder and CEO, Brandon E. Chrostowski, will share how he's redefining the face of re-entry with brutal simplicity and explain the pillars that have led to the success of EDWINS' and their students. Mr. Chrostowski will illustrate how providing everyone an equal opportunity to learn a skilled trade in and out of prison has given Cleveland's citizens a path forward. He will also impart how other industry leaders can begin providing answers to the challenges community members face when returning home.
Angela Patton
November 16, 2015
Angela Patton works to help girls and fathers stay in each other's lives - even in the most difficult and unlikely of circumstances. Join us for a conversation with Ms. Patton, champion for "at-promise" girls, founder of Camp Diva, and CEO of Girls for a Change, a nonprofit through which 100 girls’ groups throughout the nation work together to envision and execute lasting change in their neighborhoods, cities, or schools. She appears as part of our series on family resilience which helps the community better understand family resilience as a lens and tool for building policies and programs.
Re-Entry: Past, Present and Future
March 31, 2016
The question "have you ever been convicted of a felony?" is listed on nearly every employment application in the United States. For the nearly one in three American adults with a criminal record, this question all too often means the door to that particular employer is closed. Without access to viable job training and employment opportunities, many find themselves returning to prison, beginning a vicious cycle of recidivism that can perpetuate in families for generations.
Pete Earley
May 27, 2016
Join us in a discussion with Pete Earley, mental health advocate and best-selling author of CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, on the intersection between our justice and mental health systems.
James Forman, Jr.
May 5th, 2017
To celebrate Law Day 2017, join us for a conversation with James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, on how and why our society became so punitive and what we can do about the future of race and the criminal justice system in the United States.