Reentry Radio

In the latest episode of Reentry Radio, Reentry Specialist Kenny Inniss speaks with Prison-to-College Pipeline (P2CP) alum Labre Fulcher about his experiences in P2CP, getting involved in theater, working in reentry after his release, and more.

In the latest episode of reentry radio, Intake and Supportive Services Manager Amy Wald speaks with Prison-to-College Pipeline (P2CP) alum Richard Lazarini about his experiences in P2CP, continuing college in the community, the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.

In the latest episode of reentry radio, Intake and Supportive Services Manager Amy Wald (R) speaks with Prison-to-College Pipeline alum Richard Lazarini (L) about his experiences taking classes while incarcerated, working with College Initiative to resume his education in the community, and using everything he learned to launch a new business.

In this episode, College Initiative (CI) Academic Counselor Ayiisha Ferrell speaks with her student Dorphus Williams about his experiences in CI and his recent graduation from City Tech.

In this episode, the Institute's Communications & Development Associate, Katie Beiter, speaks with Lateef Sanders, a member of the College Initiative (CI) community and a recent graduate of Brooklyn College, about his experiences in CI, his past, the challenges of COVID-19, and more.

In this episode, former College Initiative (CI) Academic Counselor Desiree Gomez speaks with her student Mimi Pascual about her experiences in CI and her recent graduation from City College of New York.

In this episode, College Initiative (CI) Academic Counselor Kombeh Jobe speaks with Freddy Jacobs about his experiences in CI and his recent graduation from City College.

In this episode, College Initiative (CI) Academic Counselor Ayiisha Ferrell speaks with Charles Clink about his experiences in CI and his recent graduation from the NYU Silver School of Social Work.

In this episode of Reentry Radio, PRI talks to Melissa Ader, a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society's Worker Justice Project, about conviction-related employment discrimination and the steps New York has taken to combat it with the Fair Chance Act. Passed in 2015, this act levels the playing field for justice-involved individuals “because it pushes the criminal record inquiry until after the person gets a job offer,” according to Melissa. Justice-involved individuals, however, still face discrimination in the hiring process. Melissa outlines the ways in which those individuals can navigate employment discrimination and the importance of information sharing in shifting norms and practices.

In the latest of episode of Reentry Radio, former College Initiative mentoring coordinator, Alejo Rodriguez, discusses the mentor-mentee relationship. Rodriguez highlights the emphasis on compassion, empathy, and respect in eliminating the top-down structure typical for mentor-mentee relationships to best support justice-involved individuals seeking higher education. He argues that, in these types of relations, there is mutual reward and satisfaction along with a certain level of authenticity and sensitivity between mentor and mentee. CI is a community of successful, positive, and supportive students, alumni, and staff dedicated to creating pathways from criminal justice involvement to college and beyond. We achieve this through individualized assistance with college selection, enrollment, financial aid, academic counseling, peer mentoring, and supportive workshops. In short, CI encourages people to enroll in college who might not have considered it, removes barriers to their enrollment, and creates a supportive community that increases student success in college and in life.