[Music] What does second chances look like and mean to you as you sit here today. Well, I'm going to show you what second chances means and looks like to me. So, as you can see in the picture behind me, that's me when I was about five or six years of age.And if you look carefully, you can see me doing a hand sign. That hand sign was the area code of the area I lived in. I faced two big traumas at a very young age.One of them was my friend TJ. He was sadly murdered. The car hit him.As he flew into the sky an ...

Have you ever felt like the world decided your worth before you did. Like your part was labeled not for you before you even got to try. People around me didn't say I was useless.They said I wasn't the type. They said you should go into the arts. That's your only talent.And as long as you can draw car sounds nice, right. But let's be real. It didn't feel like a compliment. It felt like a border being drawn around my future.as if I was only allowed to do one thing, as if learning, discovering, dreaming, those ...

[Music] When you think about social change, when you think about community, what do you envision? Do you envision one group of individuals from an affluent community serving and assisting individuals from an underserved community? Maybe you picture social change to be serving individuals within your own prospective communities. This, of course, is normal. But what if I told you that social change also takes place in unexpected places? See, I've always been fascinated by the criminal justice system. I'm a be ...