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PRESS RELEASE: Mission: Launch Co-Founder and Executive Vice President Named A 2016 Soros Justice Fellow

Posted on Blog by Bryn Phillips · June 20, 2016 8:29 PM · 1 reaction

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PRESS RELEASE

 

Mission: Launch Co-Founder and Executive Vice President Named A 2016 Soros Justice Fellow

WASHINGTON, DC June 20, 2016 – While criminal justice reform continues to be a major topic of conversation and debate, from Capitol Hill to the talking points of Presidential presumptive nominees, Mission: Launch is pleased to announce that Executive Vice President and co-founder, Teresa Hodge, has been named a 2016 Soros Justice Fellow by the Open Society Foundations. The foundation is awarding $1.2 million to fund the criminal justice reform work of fifteen (15) announced recipients. Projects vary in focus, including: reentry advocacy, creating prison to school pipelines and developing humanizing media/digital storytelling campaigns.  As a member of the class of 2016, Hodge’s stipend will enable her to launch an eighteen (18) month, criminal justice reform, advocacy campaign focused on Incarceration and the Digital Divide; this campaign will promote tech education and create a pathway for tech opportunities with the goal of helping to shrink the digital divide experienced by formerly incarcerated persons, who are being navigated back to the core of society.

 “During the 5 years I was incarcerated, I realized technology was revolutionizing how people engaged in all aspects of life. I went from someone who was a tech early adopter to being on the other side of the digital divide,” says Hodge.  “Planning for my own reentry, I purposed to use technology to help me personally reintegrate into the workplace. I’m excited to spend the next 18-months advocating for technology inclusion for those of us with a prior arrest and/or conviction record. Being locked-up in prison should not keep one locked-out of opportunity for the rest their life”   

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MEDIA ADVISORY: Advancing Criminal Justice Reform in Baltimore, Local Civic Innovators Reconvene to Build Prototypes for Post Incarceration Reentry Solutions

Posted on Blog by Bryn Phillips · June 16, 2016 9:58 AM · 5 reactions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

Advancing Criminal Justice Reform in Baltimore, Local Civic Innovators Reconvene to

Build Prototypes for Post Incarceration Reentry Solutions

 

BALTIMORE, MD, June 16, 2016 – Just four months after hosting the Rebuilding Reentry

Design and Data Day, its inaugural Baltimore social justice event focused specifically on post

incarceration reentry, Mission: Launch, Inc. is reconvening city stakeholders (including more

than 20 recently released residents) committed to building viable prototypes for future

implementation.

 

The Rebuilding Reentry Baltimore Build Day is a one-day event assembling engaged

citizens, from Baltimore and Washington, DC.; attendees have the collective focus of improving

service delivery outcomes for the formerly incarcerated and successfully navigating Baltimore

residents with arrest and conviction records back to the core of society. Based upon systems

gaps identified during the human centered design process of the February event, these reentry

prototypes will advance community sourced ideas, inclusive of the following areas: family

reunification services, probation/parole guidance, vital records/state ID provision, peer

mentorship and anti-stigma efforts.

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Big Changes Looming on the Criminal Justice Reform Horizon

Posted on Blog by Bryn Phillips · July 27, 2015 2:16 PM

The second week of July was invigorating to those of us occupying the criminal justice reform space. President Obama became the first sitting President to, in less than one week, commute the excessive sentences of 46 people incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, make an entire speech calling for major overhauls in criminal justice reform and prisoner rehabilitation and then followed up his “call to action” with a tour of a Oklahoma’s Federal prison, El Reno.

For decades, proposed criminal justice reform proposed legislation has been repeatedly stalled in Congressional committees. Is this finally the time for major reforms? Despite major bipartisan support, opinions seem to differ. What most people can agree upon is the need to dismantle and rebuild this ineffectual system which, at the taxpayer cost of $80M, fails to rehabilitate or educate incarcerated persons.  Most people would also agree that there is a necessity for beneficial re-entry programs. In our technological society, platforms need to be developed that serve as effective and efficient pathways to employment and self-sufficiency for men and women exiting jails and prisons.

With thought leaders like Senator Cory Booker, Pat Nolan, Van Jones, Michelle Alexander and Glenn Martin spearheading discussions on reducing mass incarceration, major reforms feel like they are looming on the horizon.  What legislation Congress will actually agree upon and pass remains to be seen. 

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Media

Posted by Mission Launch · December 25, 2014 10:49 AM · 7 reactions

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ONLINE ARTICLES/PODCASTS

June 2016

  • Open Society Foundations: Press Release, Foundations Announce 2016 Soros Justice Fellows
  • Technical.ly Baltimore, Civic Hackers Are Getting Back Together to Build Re-entry Solutions This Weekend 

May 2016

  • SiriusXM, Bill Press Show w/ Guest Host Dr. Julianne Malveaux May 27, 2016 (Interview begins at 1:12:00)

March 2016

  • Texas Observer, New Technologies Connect Prisoners to the Outside World

February 2016

  • Sunlight Foundation: Guest Blog, Laurin Hodge OpenGov Voices: Unlocking Prison Re-entry Data
  • The Baltimore Sun, Event Focuses on Helping Felons Return to Workplace After Release
  • SiriusXM, Michael Smerconish Show w/ Guest Host Jason Johnson 
  • Byte Back, What You’ve Missed: Returning Citizens & the Digital Divide
  • Technical.ly Baltimore, This Re-entry Nonprofit is Set to Hold Its First Baltimore Data Event
  • The Washington Post, [email protected], The Long Road Back
  • The Washington Post, [email protected], Race Is Always the Elephant in the Room

December 2015

  • Change Makers, Home Again - What Now?
  • DC Inno, 9 DMV Startups That Just Launched This Year

 

November 2015

  • MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry Show, Foot Soldiers of the Week: Organization Seeks to Smooth Re-entry for Former Inmates
  • BLIS.FM, Hope and Wellness Show, Rebuilding Re-entry

 

October 2015

  • NAACP, PSA Video, A Fair Chance: #BanTheBox

 

September 2015

  • Next City, Will D.C. Be the First U.S. City to Escape the Prison Trap?
  • Technical.ly DC, Rebuilding Re-entry Hackathon is back on this fall
  • Reentry Central - The National Website on Reentry
  • TechCrunch, Former Prisoners Rethink Criminal Justice through Entrepreneurship and Civic Technology
  • NPR; WAMU 88.5 Washington, DC, New Startup Helps Former Inmates Launch Their Own Businesses

August 2015

  • Washington City Paper, New Site Helps Determine If Criminal Records Are Sealable
  • CRVIII, A Startup Helping Prisoners Start Over 
  • Tech.Co, DC’s Mission: Launch Wants to Turn Former Prisoners into Entrepreneurs 
  • DC Inno, This DC Startup Aims to Help People Returning from Prison to Become Tech Entrepreneurs 
  • U.S. Small Business Administration: Blog Post, Grand Slam Day for America’s High-Growth Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Its Startups 
  • Street Sense, White House Seeks to Close “Opportunity Gap,” Honors Entrepreneurs 
  • Technical.ly DC, Mission: Launch to Open Accelerator for Returning Citizens 
  • Technical.ly DC, At first White House Demo Day, Obama Calls for Inclusive Entrepreneurship 
  • U.S. Small Business Administration: Press Release, SBA Boosts Economic Impact of Accelerators with $4.4 Million in Prizes 
  • U.S. Small Business Growth Accelerator Fund Award Announced during 1st White House Demo Day

 

July 2015

  • B.Stigma Free: Guest Blog, Teresa Hodge: I Went to Prison - How's That for an Ice Breaker?

 

June 2015 

  • A Just Cause Unseen Heroes for Advocacy Groups (Podcast), Teresa Hodge 
  • Street Sense, Hactivist Seek to Streamline Road for Returning Citizens
  • The Daily Beast, The Real Felony: Denying Prisoners The Right To Vote
  • Gospel Driven Entrepreneur (Podcast), Laurin Hodge: Eliminating The Social Stigma of Returning Prisoners

 

May 2015 

  • Technical.ly DC, Discuss Civic Tech's Role in Helping Returning Citizens: Rebuilding Re-entry Demo Day

 

November 2014

  • Technical.ly DC, Rebuilding Re-Entry Hackathon
  • Code for DC: Blog Post, DC Open211 at the Rebuilding Re-entry Hackathon
     

July 2014

  • Points of Light, Recognition Award

 

May, 2014

  • Ashoka Changemakers & American Express, 2014 Emerging Social Innovators Announced

 

March 2014

  • Virgin Unite: Guest Blog, The One Thing Every Disruptive Woman Needs
  • Womenetics, The Do Gooder

 

November 2013

  • GirlTank, Turning Former Female Inmates Into Innovators

 

June 2013

  • Fast Company, Helping Women Get Back On Track After Prison With a Little CrowdFunding

 

April 2013

  • Technical.ly Baltimore, Mission: Launch Needs $25K to Build Ex-Offenders’ Reentry Tracking Tool 

 

November 2012

  • Technical.ly Baltimore, Mission Launch Founder Receives Starting Bloc Fellowship

 

August 2012

  • Technical.ly Baltimore, Mission: Launch Jobs Program Turns Former Into Budding Entrepreneurs

 

May 2012

  • Maryland Biz Now, O'Malley Taps 4 in Pitch Competition

 


VIDEO CLIPS

  • Teresa Hodge: I Did My Research From Prison
  • Teresa Hodge & Laurin Hodge: Women Bring Balance To the Room
  • Laurin Hodge: The Year 2050 In Review
  • Laurin Hodge & Simone LaRoche: Calling All Gen Y Women
  • Simone LaRoche: Why I Joined This Project

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