Building Community Through Reentry

Two speakers from First Followers on building community through reentry, introduced by graduate student Amber Scarborough of the Education Justice Project's Reentry Guide Initiative. Crushion Stubbs, incarcerated 27 years from age 19, gave an extended address on "permanent punishments" and the Fully Free campaign's FREE Act (HB 4490 / SB 3098) on felony convictions and estate executorship. Founder Marlon Mitchell described his own incarceration, the degrees he earned, founding First Followers in 2015, and the H3 (harm, healing, hope) violence initiative. Audience Q&A followed. Co-presented with the Office of Diversity and Social Justice Education.