In this episode of From Chains to Change, our host Bruce Reilly sits down with state representative Mandie Landry to discuss her ongoing legislation around bettering medical care for people currently incarcerated, implementing term limits for sheriffs amongst many other priorities she’ll be working on throughout this current legislative session.

In this episode of From Chains to Change, our host Bruce Reilly sits down with state representative Candace Newell to discuss her ongoing legislation to legalize and regulate cannabis as well as other legislative priorities being championed throughout this legislative session.

In this special episode of From Chains to Change, our host Bruce Reilly sits down with a number of special guest including our executive director Norris Henderson, Jamila Johnson, attorney with the Promise of Justice Initiative and state representative Matthew Willard to discuss the continued fight around non unanimous juries, than later joined by Earl Hagans to discuss equal opportunity in housing and his own lived experience with housing discrimination.

In this special episode of From Chains to Change, our host Bruce Reilly sits down with Birmingham City Council member LaTonya Tate, discussing her experience running for office as a black woman in the Deep South, having recently been elected and since taking office, the work she’s engaged I within her community and chairing the councils Public Safety Committee. Our discussion also delves into LaTonya’s lived experience and work as an activist and transitioning from the advocacy realm to a position of governance.

On this week's episode of from Chains to Change, our host Bruce Reilly sits down with Tulane Ph.D. student and FIP Jarrod M. Wall on his lived experienced, the impacts of the school to prison pipeline as well as discussing his research around Post-Secondary Prison Education, Stigma & Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records.

(PART II) In this special 3-part episode of From Chains to Change, we take you into the Grand Opening of VOTE’s new building in New Orleans. Formerly incarcerated people reflect on the road to this realization, and the power it represents”

(PART I) In this special 3-part episode of From Chains to Change, we take you into the Grand Opening of VOTE’s new building in New Orleans. Formerly incarcerated people reflect on the road to this realization, and the power it represents”

(PART III) In this special 3-part episode of From Chains to Change, we take you into the Grand Opening of VOTE’s new building in New Orleans. Formerly incarcerated people reflect on the road to this realization, and the power it represents”

In this episode of From Chains to Change, our host and deputy director Bruce Reilly and our executive director Norris Henderson sit down with a special guest and the newly elected, Orleans Parish Sheriff-elect, Susan Hutson to discuss her recent victory over 4 term incumbent Marlin Gusman in the December 2021 runoff election and how she envisions the upcoming transition process as well as her priorities once she takes office this May. 

In this episode, our host Bruce Reilly sits down with Norris Henderson, our executive director, Nziki Wiltz, our chapter organizer and Devin Davis, our political coordinator to discuss the results of the recent December 2021 runoff election in New Orleans and recapping our victory in the race for Orleans Parish sheriff.