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Inspired by her own experience, Tiawana Brown founded Beauty After the Bars as a way to help women returning home from incarceration.

We discuss the reason for high recidivism rates, the financial pressures that outlast incarceration, and the recent opening of her organization’s first SAFE Home.

Inspired by her own experience, Tiawana Brown founded Beauty After the Bars as a way to help women returning home from incarceration.

We discuss the reason for high recidivism rates, the financial pressures that outlast incarceration, and the recent opening of her organization’s first SAFE Home.

Just days after his election to Mecklenburg County Democratic Party Chair, we talked to Drew Kromer about joining a new wave of young leaders in the state, how he plans to address low local turnout and what he thinks the party can learn from Tricia Cotham’s defection. 

Ryan talks to at-large representative LaWana Mayfield about returning to Charlotte City Council after a three-year hiatus, what's changed since she's been gone, and what inspired her passion for social justice issues before embarking on an in-depth discussion about housing solutions in Charlotte. 

Morris Madden is a former MLB pitcher, founder of the Carolinas Metro Reds, and co-founder of the Knothole Foundation of the Carolinas. He discusses his own come-up through the league and how he’s spent his time since bridging racial and economic gaps in accessibility to the sport. 

Ryan speaks with William McNeely, founder and CEO of local nonprofit Do Greater Charlotte, which has transformed the underutilized space under Shiloh Institutional Baptist Church into CRTV Lab at Shiloh, a high-tech creative hub for teens in west Charlotte. 

Lorenzo Steele Jr., founder of Behind These Prison Walls, worked at a guard in one of the country’s most violent juvenile detention centers for 12 years before the work took his toll on him and he left to become an activist against mass incarceration and advocate for youth crime prevention. 

Civility Localized founder Christine Edwards discusses her path from local government employee to launching her own business, through which she works with government agencies and other clients on community engagement, place-making, consulting and other behind-the-scenes work.

Genna Contino, local government reporter with the Charlotte Observer, discusses her first six months of covering Charlotte City Council and Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, as well as some of today’s hottest news stories.