Media Coverage

2024

NPR Here and Now | Grassroots Ohio group empowers people with felony records to participate in democracy by voting 

Columbus Dispatch | J.D. Vance wrote about being poor in Ohio. Now he's pulling ladder from poor Ohioans (op-ed)

Ideastream | Once a teenage mother, she now helps young Cleveland moms 'unleash the beast' of parenthood

Ideastream | This Cleveland activist uses his ‘abnormal, normal life’ to keep people out of prison

Ideastream | Was his mother ashamed he was in prison? Poetry helped him find the answer

2023

Akron Beacon Journal | Sending kids to adult prisons creating new generation of criminals

Cleveland.com | Issue 38 - putting schools and streets over stadiums: Fred Ward

Cleveland Local 19 | Khnemu Foundation mentoring youth to keep them away from crime

Scripps News | Breaking the Cycle: Redefining Incarceration and Reentry in America | The Race

The Marshall Project | Don’t ‘Punish Them More.’ Effort Grows to Ease Job Barriers After Prison Release

2022

Cleveland19.com | Hundreds registered to vote during an event in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood

Cleveland.com | High-stakes Ohio Supreme Court races could influence abortion rights, redistricting in the state

Spectrum News | Advocates call on lawmakers to pass criminal justice reform

WOUB Public Media | Advocacy group gives a new voice to formerly incarcerated people in Ohio

Ideastream Public Media | Who's electing judges in the Cleveland area? Not those ensnared in the system

2021

Cleveland.com | Supporting Issue 24: This November, my safety is on the Cleveland ballot: Fred Ward