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Blowin’ in the Wind
One year ago, my partner Billy and I decided to quit our jobs and travel the world. With overly stuffed backpacks and some vague intentions (have some fun, get connected to our ancestral roots, and reflect on our career paths), we set off on a grand adventure. That adventure ended up entailing eight countries (seventeen… Read more
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Moving beyond criminal justice
In the presence of crime, nobody wins. The painful consequences experienced by victims, perpetrators, and their families echo through the community, eroding everyone’s sense of trust, unity and safety. As such, identifying effective strategies to combat crime and recidivism is one of society’s most pressing and challenging questions. It requires us to understand the multitude… Read more
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Where have we gone wrong with the Fair Chance Movement?
The past decade has manifested incredible progress in the criminal justice and fair chance space — far beyond what I imagined possible when first getting involved. I have witnessed this progress in both raw numbers of reduced barriers for people with criminal records, as well as more personal anecdotes from working alongside many of these… Read more
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The search
Life is an amalgamation of contradictions, so why do I search for constants? Am I a self or is the self an illusion? Are there universal values or is morality a construct? Should I squeeze tighter or embrace the transience? Seek for greatness or for dissolution? The answer is both, neither and somewhere in the… Read more
