Jennifer is a graduate of the Speakers Bureau of the Community Family Life Services, our partner in Season II. Although Jennifer has not experienced incarceration herself, her empathy comes from being a cancer survivor who has faced bias and discrimination in accessing care and treatment. Also, as a result of her illness, and the subsequent loss of her job, Jennifer was homelessness for several years while being a single Mother. This is her story about health, the commitment to live, and be a great Mom.

In this episode Citizen Journalist Jennifer Speight interviews Zach Skow, the founder and executive director of Marley's Mutts a dog rescue organization in California that runs a program called Pawsitive Change in the California prison system. In this fascinating conversation, you will learn what compelled Zach to start his non-profit and to work with men and women who are incarcerated. You will also be amazed to hear about the potential of the pet industry in offering second chance employment to the formerly incarcerated!

Crystal Marshall is a reporter in training for this season of the One in Four podcast, which is created in collaboration with Community Family Life Services. In this episode, Crystal speaks with Joseph Tolbert about coming home from prison, entrepreneurship, and making a living. This episode is brought to you with the support of Season II co-producer Eric Bond. We hope you enjoy it.

After working on the resilience episode, Beverly shared with Bea why she picked this topic and what she came away with after interviewing her guests. Let us know what the word resilience means to you in the context of your own life on our FB page or on our IG account. Enjoy!

In this episode, we focus on resilience or the ability to overcome adversity and life’s many challenges with grace and strength. The pandemic and systemic racism are opportunities to build resilience and come out of this period stronger and more united as a human race than ever before. And what better person to bring you this episode than Beverly Smith-Brown, one of our reporters in training and a member of the Speaker’s Bureau of Community Family Life Services? Beverly has overcome a lot of personal trauma, including growing up with family members that were addicted to crack cocaine and spending time in prison herself. She is the founder of Momma’s Safe Heaven, a local nonprofit organization that helps individuals heal from trauma through counseling, referrals and mentoring services for youth in under-served communities. Beverly, who is a mother to four children and a grandmother to five grandchildren, is a successful filmmaker and dabbles with the arts, which is why this episode is so fitting. Art is often a vehicle for healing, self-expression and transformation. And resilience is the outcome of an inner journey. It is about finding strength within to confront challenges outside, including grief, abuse, and violence. People who have experienced and survived incarceration know about resilience. In this episode, you will hear from Carole Alden, Wendy Jason, Aimee Wissman and Global Prison Ambassador Lamboginny.

In this episode, One in Four podcast citizen reporter and CFLS Speakers Bureau member Aaliyah Polite continues her series of conversations around technology and reentry. In this episode, she interviews Carrie Murchison, Returned Citizen Advocate for the Last Mile, a San Francisco-based technology accelerator that is operational inside 17 prisons across the U.S. and supports reentry by investing in tech skills and facilitating access to in-demand jobs.

In this first conversation around the role of technology in reentry amidst a pandemic, community reporter Aaliyah Polite speaks with Marcus Bullock, Founder and CEO of the Flikshop App. This season is a collaboration with the Speakers Bureau of the Community Family Life Services (CFLS). Aaliyah is one of several community reporters who are working with One in Four to bring you these conversations. For more information about this second season, please visit our website www.oneinfourpodcast.com and consider making a donation to support the work of the reporters in training.

We are dedicating this episode on education and re-entry to all the seniors who had to graduate online this year due to Covid-19. May the stories of the students of The Goodwill Excel Center inspire you to achieve your greatest potential, because no matter what happens and how you got here, is a testament to your hard work and commitment. In this episode, you will meet several students from The Goodwill Excel Center, a tuition-free adult charter high school in the District of Columbia, which transforms lives and restores hope for a better future. The D.C. Goodwill Excel Center is part of a network that was started by Goodwill Industries in the state of Indiana back in 2010 with the goal of boosting education attainment levels. The Excel Centers are diploma-granting public charter high schools designed to fit the life circumstances of adults, including men and women who come out of the U.S. prison system.

This is the wrap-up conversation that the One in Four team had at the PRX Podcast Garage in Washington D.C. on February 29, 2020. The conversation was facilitated by journalist and proud Washingtonian Christina Sturdivant Sani. We were honored to have Christina facilitate our conversation and a big thank you to PRX for hosting us! This bonus episode contains the unedited conversation and includes a Q&A with the audience. Thank you to all those who came to support us! Enjoy and let us know your thoughts via social media or through our newly launched website: www.oneinfourpodcast.com

Dear Listeners, it is our pleasure to bring you a message of hope during these times of great global uncertainty by introducing you to Mr. Yinka Lawanson (stage name Lamboginny), an amazing Afrobeat musician who is a Global Prison Ambassador with the United Nations and a graduate of YALI, the Young African Leaders Initiative of the State Department. Lamboginny is passionate about the human rights of prisoners all over the world, and intentionally uses his music platform to draw attention to prison conditions in his native country of Nigeria as well as in the rest of Africa and also the United States of America, the country that has the highest number of people incarcerated in the world. We hope you enjoy this episode and you feel inspired to also use your talents and skills to bring love and compassion into this world of ours.