Lunch and Learn: 44,000 Barriers to a Second Chance
About the Event
Come hear Heather Rice-Minus, senior vice president of advocacy and church mobilization at Prison Fellowship, discuss how every person has dignity and potential, but not everyone gets to realize them. Nearly 1 in 3 American adults has a criminal record, which limits their access to education, jobs, housing, and more. In fact, there are over 44,000 documented legal barriers that prevent people with a criminal record from reaching their God-given potential.
Since launching the first Second Chance® Month in April 2017, Prison Fellowship® has spearheaded the nationwide effort to raise awareness of the barriers faced by returning citizens and to unlock second chances for those who dream of a better tomorrow. Prison Fellowship is the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their families and a leading advocate for criminal justice reform. Prison Fellowship was founded in 1976 by Charles Colson, a former aide to President Nixon who served seven months in federal prison for a Watergate-related crime.
Lunch and Learn is a free, virtual, and in person program held on the last Wednesday of each month from noon to 1:00 p.m. EDT.
Speaker
Heather Rice-Minus
Heather Rice-Minus serves as senior vice president of advocacy and church mobilization at Prison Fellowship. She provides strategic leadership to several teams at Prison Fellowship, including grassroots and policy staff, to advance campaigns on pivotal criminal justice issues. She is a valued shaper of the criminal justice reform debate because of her wide-ranging policy expertise.
A native of Virginia, Rice-Minus resides in Washington, DC, with her husband and daughter. They welcomed another child as foster parents in 2020. She is a graduate of Colorado State University and George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. She is a member of the Virginia State Bar and a Colson Fellow.