Healing versus vengeance | Elizabeth Gaynes | TED Goes to Prison at Coxsackie Correctional Facility 2022
America has an extraordinary addiction to punishment, so why don't U.S. crime victims feel better? Listen to the wise words of a woman who has been working in the criminal justice arena since the Attica Uprising in 1971. Elizabeth Gaynes served as the Osborne Association’s President and CEO before stepping down in April of this year. Over the course of her 38 years at Osborne, the organization grew from a staff of 3 to more than 300, with headquarters in the South Bronx, and program sites in Harlem, Brooklyn, Newburgh, Buffalo, and 30 NY prisons and jails, with programs that divert people from jail and prison, provide services for incarcerated people and their families during incarceration, and offer a wide range of reentry supports. Liz is a nationally recognized expert on the impact of incarceration and reentry on children and families. Following the incarceration of her children's father in 1984, she designed FamilyWorks, the first comprehensive parenting program in a men’s state prison and the longest continually operating prison fatherhood program in the country. She serves on the Governor's Prison Redevelopment Commission, focused on the redevelopment and re-use of 12 closed upstate prisons. Osborne is near completion of the redevelopment of the former Fulton Correctional Facility, which will soon provide 135 beds for transitional reentry housing for older men returning to NYC after serving long prison terms. Along with her daughter, Emani Davis, Liz was the first nominee from the Global North for the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child for their work on behalf of children of incarcerated parents. Liz began her career as a defense attorney in connection with the 1971 Attica prison uprising. Before joining Osborne, she was a staff attorney at Prisoners Legal Services of New York and an Associate at the Pretrial Justice Institute in Washington, D.C. Liz received her undergraduate and law degrees from Syracuse University.
How to be a better prosecutor | Cyrus Vance | TED Goes to Prison at Coxsackie Correctional Facility 2022
Cyrus Vance was the Manhattan District Attorney for three consecutive terms between 2010 and 2021. He is now in private practice and a partner at Baker & McKenzie in New York City, leading its global cyber security practice. As the Manhattan district attorney, Cy led many criminal justice reform efforts, including creating the Criminal Justice Investment Initiative which invested $250 million dollars in criminal forfeiture funds to support college programming in prison throughout New York State, families and youth at risk of criminal justice involvement, and re-entry initiatives for citizens returning home from prison. Last November, Cy’s office exonerated two men wrongfully convicted of killing Malcolm X in the 1960s.
Failure - get over it | Terry McAuliffe | TEDxAttica 2019
In this entertaining talk, former Governor Terry McAuliffe talks about his first entrepreneurial endeavors as a young boy in Syracuse to his time as Governor, reforming Virginia's criminal justice system. Terry McAuliffe served as Governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018. He also served as Chair of the National Governors' Association from 2016 to 2017 and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005. During his term as Governor, the unemployment rate in Virginia dropped from 5.4% to 3.6% and initial unemployment claims fell to a 44-year-low. By the end of his term, McAuliffe had restored voting rights for 206,000 released felons, more than any governor in U.S. history. He also issued more pardons than any Governor in Virginia history and reduced the state’s population in state-operated Juvenile Correctional Centers by nearly two-thirds. His new New York Times best-selling book, Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism, describes the tragic events at the "Unite the Right" rally that resulted in the deaths of three people in Charlottesville, Virginia, during his governorship.
Finding the right priority when starting a business | Steve Forbes | TEDxSingSing 2020
This speaker’s name speaks for him. When you hear the name Forbes, you know it’s attached to someone with an incredible amount of experience and firsthand knowledge of the business world. Well in this incredible talk, Steve Forbes wants to share some of that knowledge with you! This talk is full of insight and wisdom about what it really takes to start a business and how we might need to re-define our perception of entrepreneurship. Steve Forbes is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. Steve writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of “Fact and Comment.” A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. In both 1996 and 2000, Steve campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency.Steve’s newest project is the podcast “What’s Ahead,” where he engages the world’s top newsmakers, politicians and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions as well as featuring Steve’s signature views on the intersection of society, economic and policy.
Building stone upon stone - power of community in entrepreneurship | Goldie Harrison | TEDxSingSing 2020
Many of us think we know what entrepreneurship looks like, but how could it be improved? That’s exactly the question that Goldie Harrison is tackling in this presentation. With her first-hand experience organizing community events in Brooklyn, New York, and growing up with self-made parents, Goldie has a unique perspective on the world of creatives and innovators. If you fancy yourself an innovator or a changemaker, this might just be the talk for you. Whether it’s behind the lens or curating the vibes, Goldie Harrison is a creative force to be reckoned with. The wunderkind has tapped into a lane uniquely her own through her precision in media and events. As a self-proclaimed “dot connecter,” Goldie’s affinity for the arts has evolved into the founding of her own digital agency and studio – 24:OURS – where culture and community verge. 24:OURS has garnered the attention of The Black Enterprise, News12, Spectrum News and Essence Magazine. Through 24:OURS, Goldie has launched opened 24:OURS Creative Studios, an innovation hub tailored for black and brown creatives and launched 2 live music series, #NoiseCtrl and TheLoftSessions a live music platform giving indie artists a chance to be heard on an authentic level.
Lessons from Gandhi on the violence within all of us | Arun Gandhi + Jonathon Jones | TEDxAttica 2019
In this engaging talk, Arun Gandhi shares the lessons he learned about violence while living with his grandfather Mahatma and why he now teaches nonviolence workshops in Attica and other prisons. Jonathon Jones shares how Arun’s teachings transformed him while he was in prison and now, since his release, the two are teaching nonviolence workshops in prisons together. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi, was born in Durban, South Africa during the apartheid years. At age12, Arun was taken to India to live with his famous grandfather and learn ways to cope with his anger and violent reactions, having been a victim of color prejudice while growing up. During his time in India, he learned valuable lessons on life next to his grandfather. Arun is now the President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute to take the message of nonviolence all over the world and to rescue and train children living in poverty so that they can break the oppressive cycle crushing them. He has also started the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in 1991, based since 2008 at the University of Rochester, NY, which runs programs for inner city children, inmates of correctional facilities and poor families while teaching nonviolence to students. Jonathon Jones grew up in Rochester and learned deeply about nonviolence in many forms while incarcerated, including becoming a trainer with the Alternatives to Violence project as well as learning and then teaching Nonviolent Communication through the Gandhi Institute. Since his return home, he has continued his study of nonviolence, completing a six-month course with the Metta Center for Nonviolence last rear. Jonathan teaches and speaks on nonviolence in a variety of community settings.
Quiet people will change the world | Sara Dahan | TEDxSingSing 2020
Sara Dahan has always been a quiet person so she knows that when looking for authority figures, we tend to overlook quieter, more reserved people. But what if she told you that being quiet doesn’t mean you can’t lead effectively, speak publicly, or impact change? If you are an introvert looking for some motivation and some inspiration, look no further! In this challenging talk, Sara takes a close look at what it means to be a quiet leader, and what perspective they can bring to the table. A community builder of 12 years, Sara Dahan runs Catalyst, a community strategy agency that helps businesses build authentic, thriving communities around their brand. Catalyst leverages the resources of the private sector to transform society into a more empathetic and connected place while also building strong, organic brand loyalty that fuels companies growth. Sara earned her Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience at MIT and her Master's in Epidemiology from NYU, and has always been fascinated by what drives human behavior and the ways we gather. In her talk, "Quiet People Will Change The World", Sara questions what it means to have a voice and discusses strategies we can learn from quiet people to become authentic and empathetic leaders.
Movement | Jewel Rodgers | TEDxNebraskaCorrectionalCenterforWomen 2018
Jewel Rodgers is a civic activist in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a North Omaha native, Jewel begs the notion that circumstances are ambiguous. As a scholar, speaker, designer, and urban strategist, she discovers and implements ways to use collective economics as means to discover how we can determine our own version of what we call, reality. There are moments of constant epiphany that occur within your mind every time you learn something. One can describe this, as an act of changing location or position. These lessons learned are a culmination of events that have lead to your present state and are products of your movement. But - have you decided if you are moving forward?
Art can save your life | Mario Torero | TEDxDonovanCorrectional 2017
As an “artivist,” Mario Torero is most known over the last forty-five years for an extensive body of socially conscious mural work produced in different cities throughout the United States and around the world. In his talk, Mario explores the local history of Chicano Park and the importance of reclaiming personal power through the creative, healing act of story-telling through art. "I call myself an 'artivist,' passionately devoted to bringing color and socially conscious messages to the walls of communities, especially marginalized neighborhoods that are in dire need of self-expression. Through muralism, I see myself in service of the People, striving in bringing unity and healing through color, art and meaning."
How to make people care about criminal justice reform | Neil Barsky | TEDxSanQuentin 2016
Why would a financial journalist turned hedge fund manager start a nonprofit media company devoted to reporting on criminal justice? What happens when Bill Keller visits the incarcerated San Quentin News http://sanquentinnews.com/ team? Listen to this powerful and moving talk by Neil Barsky, Founder and Chairman of The Marshall Project, and find out. Neil Barsky is the founder and chairman of the Marshall Project, a Pulitzer prize winning news outlet, intended to shed light on the United States criminal justice system. He has been a newspaper reporter (The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News), equity research analyst (Morgan Stanley), hedge fund manager (Midtown Capital, Alson Capital) and documentary film director (“Koch”). Barsky is the chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review board of advisers and sits on the board of trustees of Oberlin College. Barsky is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He reported extensively on the business career of Donald Trump, and was awarded the 1991 Loeb Award for "coverage of the collapse of Donald Trump's financial empire." In his 1997 book, Trump: The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote "Of all the writers who have written about me, probably none has been more vicious than Neil Barsky of the Wall Street Journal."
Prisons and the high cost of poor decisions | Robert E. Rubin | TEDxSanQuentin 2016
In a pre-event conference call with the incarcerated TEDx organizers at San Quentin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin learned the following: Four minutes and 26 seconds. That's all the collective time it took for a group of 28 men to make reactive decisions that resulted, so far, in them being been locked up for 715 years and counting. In this moving and personal talk, Rubin reflects on his experience preparing for his talk at San Quentin and how reactive, emotional decision making is taking a terrible toll on our nation's economic health. And that it's not just inmates who need to make better decisions if we want to have a healthy society and remain a globally competitive nation. Robert E. Rubin served as our nation's 70th Secretary of the Treasury from January 10, 1995 until July 2, 1999. He joined the Clinton Administration in 1993, serving in the White House as the first Director of the National Economic Council. In June 2007, Mr. Rubin was named Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is Chairman of the Board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation's leading community development support organization. He began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company in 1966, serving as Co-Senior Partner and Co-Chairman from 1990 to 1992. From 1999 to 2009, he served as a member of the Board of Directors at Citigroup and as a senior advisor to the company. Mr. Rubin is one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution that offers a strategic vision and innovative policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans.
These children are somebody | Chad Dion Lassiter | TEDxChesterStatePrison 2016
Society says children of incarcerated parents are nobody, but Chad Lassiter maintains there is a moral imperative – on the part of their incarcerated parents and policy makers - to protect, guide and create a new identity for these children. Lassiter is nationally recognized in the fields of American race relations and violence prevention among African American males.
Discover your inner leader | Sharon Kelly Hake | TEDxWilmingtonSalon 2015
Sharon Kelly Hake is the President & CEO of Great Dames, Inc. – a social enterprise that provides services and opportunities for women to enhance their personal and professional leadership abilities while creating a legacy. Formerly Sharon had a very successful career as a global marketing and strategy leader at DuPont, during which she learned from her global colleagues, travelled extensively and lived abroad. She was taught by her father the value of creating a legacy which transpired into her founding Great Dames. She is an inspiration in her community connecting kindred spirits with purpose to activate their strengths.
The story of the creative vision factory | Michael Kalmbach | TEDxWilmingtonSalon 2015
Michael Kalmbach has a serious passion for helping people in his community through art. He worked at the Delaware College of Art & Design, there he founded the New Wilmington Art Association, an organization that organized exhibitions of contemporary art in Wilmington’s vacant retail spaces. In 2011 Michael developed and opened the Creative Vision Factory in downtown Wilmington, which fosters the creative potential of individuals on the behavioral health spectrum in a studio art environment that cultivates integration with the local community through a program of exhibitions, workshops, and communal workspace.
Second chances shouldn’t be a privilege | Patricia Beebe | TEDxWilmingtonSalon 2015
Patricia Beebe is the President & CEO of the Food Bank of Delaware. She has a strong passion for hunger relief efforts. In her role at the Food Bank of Delaware Beebe strategically engages community members, foundations and other public and private sectors to form vital partnerships that advance the organization’s mission of providing long-term solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty throughout Delaware. Patricia created a professional culinary training certification program that provides opportunities to unemployed and under-employed individuals and community members re-entering from correctional facilities each year.
Let's talk about mental illness | Chris Darling | TEDxWilmingtonSalon 2015
Chris Darling helps bridge the chasm between the stigma of mental illness and society’s reluctance to discuss it. As a community leader, Chris’s platform fuels her mission to motivate audiences to talk about mental illness more openly. As someone who lives with her own mental illness, she inspires through stories - some harrowing, some hilarious - all designed to connect a wider audience with this “taboo” topic in a relatable way. Chris is founder and owner of Darling SEO, and an active member of the Christiana Rotary Club.
Who says the past must define us? | Deborah Jiang-Stein | TEDxMarionCorrectional 2015
An open talk about being born in the most unlikely place. Overcoming your own demons and the perceptions of others. Deborah shows how the beginning doesn't have to be what defines you and that the road to a healthy life is a journey. From prison baby to national advocate and inspiration. Check it out!! If you've been more than what you were expected to be then get familiar with this woman. Deborah Jiang-Stein is a national speaker and founder of The unPrison Project a 501(c)3 nonprofit working to empower incarcerated women and girls with life skills and mentoring to prepare for a successful life after prison. Born heroin-addicted to an incarcerated mother, Deborah is the author of the memoir, Prison Baby, published by Beacon Press, described as “One woman’s struggles—beginning with her birth in prison—to find self-acceptance, proving that redemption and healing are possible, even from the darkest corners. “
Why I chose to go to prison | Christian Conte | TEDxPittsburghStatePrison 2015
Psychologist and anger management specialist, Dr. Conte created the “Yield Theory,’’ as a powerful approach to combining radical compassion with conscious education. After earning his doctorate at Duquesne University, Dr. Conte co-founded a center in California to help people who have been convicted of violent crimes. Now, in addition to writing, public speaking and co-hosting a reality TV show about sports’ coaches, Dr. Conte works with inmates in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
Leadership freak | Dan Rockwell | TEDxPittsburghStatePrison 2015
With humor, energy and charm, Rockwell shares lessons he’s learned about leadership, including how reevaluate strategies that aren't working and how to respond to failures, helping to build better relationships and becoming better mentors. Dan Rockwell is leadership coach, speaker, and author of the popular daily leadership blog called, the “Leadership Freak.’’
Braddock | John Fetterman | TEDxPittsburghStatePrison 2015
Braddock Mayor John Fetterman talks about his passion for a small town whose economy collapsed with the decline of the steel industry and the progress Braddock has made to save its youth and rebuild the community.