One in Four Podcast Bea Spadacini and Tim Nicholson

In this first conversation around the role of technology in reentry amidst a pandemic, community reporter Aaliyah Polite speaks with Marcus Bullock, Founder and CEO of the Flikshop App. This season is a collaboration with the Speakers Bureau of the Community Family Life Services (CFLS). Aaliyah is one of several community reporters who are working with One in Four to bring you these conversations. For more information about this second season, please visit our website www.oneinfourpodcast.com and consider making a donation to support the work of the reporters in training.

In this episode, One in Four podcast citizen reporter and CFLS Speakers Bureau member Aaliyah Polite continues her series of conversations around technology and reentry. In this episode, she interviews Carrie Murchison, Returned Citizen Advocate for the Last Mile, a San Francisco-based technology accelerator that is operational inside 17 prisons across the U.S. and supports reentry by investing in tech skills and facilitating access to in-demand jobs.

In this episode, we focus on resilience or the ability to overcome adversity and life’s many challenges with grace and strength. The pandemic and systemic racism are opportunities to build resilience and come out of this period stronger and more united as a human race than ever before. And what better person to bring you this episode than Beverly Smith-Brown, one of our reporters in training and a member of the Speaker’s Bureau of Community Family Life Services? Beverly has overcome a lot of personal trauma, including growing up with family members that were addicted to crack cocaine and spending time in prison herself. She is the founder of Momma’s Safe Heaven, a local nonprofit organization that helps individuals heal from trauma through counseling, referrals and mentoring services for youth in under-served communities. Beverly, who is a mother to four children and a grandmother to five grandchildren, is a successful filmmaker and dabbles with the arts, which is why this episode is so fitting.
Art is often a vehicle for healing, self-expression and transformation. And resilience is the outcome of an inner journey. It is about finding strength within to confront challenges outside, including grief, abuse, and violence. People who have experienced and survived incarceration know about resilience.
In this episode, you will hear from Carole Alden, Wendy Jason, Aimee Wissman and Global Prison Ambassador Lamboginny.

Crystal Marshall is a reporter in training for this season of the One in Four podcast, which is created in collaboration with Community Family Life Services. In this episode, Crystal speaks with Joseph Tolbert about coming home from prison, entrepreneurship, and making a living. This episode is brought to you with the support of Season II co-producer Eric Bond. We hope you enjoy it.

In this episode Citizen Journalist Jennifer Speight interviews Zach Skow, the founder and executive director of Marley's Mutts a dog rescue organization in California that runs a program called Pawsitive Change in the California prison system. In this fascinating conversation, you will learn what compelled Zach to start his non-profit and to work with men and women who are incarcerated. You will also be amazed to hear about the potential of the pet industry in offering second chance employment to the formerly incarcerated!

After working on the resilience episode, Beverly shared with Bea why she picked this topic and what she came away with after interviewing her guests. Let us know what the word resilience means to you in the context of your own life on our FB page or on our IG account. Enjoy!