Available to them. I do want to say that with your questions about what i want to do now . I think its become really important for all of us that do this work to get together and know what everybody else does. Create some kind of a way that we can Access Services from everyone, and so im sitting on two subcommittees for the Reentry Council right now. Its amazing work. I love my job and i would love to be part of the council. I have done it before, but im really more into it right now and would i like to have the opportunity to serve again. Thank you. Thank you very much. Last up would be Ernest Kirkwood. Good afternoon. I welcome and greatly appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today. Because if i receive reappoint to the Reentry Council it will grant me opportunity to continue my work in the council. Reentry is not an event. It is a process. The reentry process started for me many years ago when i was well into my second prison terms and continues as i stand before you tod
Thank you. Thank you. Hi. My name is jean yetta johnson for the transgender Justice Project and i was recently released. I have been out almost two years and getting out of prison and accessing services, having a difficult time, but also being mindful that the minute i knew i was going to be going to prison i focused on reentry and how that works within the Transgender Community. Im an africanamerican transgender person and found that Reentry Services have been very, very hard for me and had to pave my own way with very little support. I have been denied reentry programs, having the same background as everybody else and the program and having to really advocate for myself and go two, three, four times through people to say hey, i feel i deserve this opportunity. I deserve this opportunity and not given this opportunity and i wanted to advocate for Dominique Leslie because she has worked in the community for a long time. She has really good work. She works well with all populations, its
Released. I have been out almost two years and getting out of prison and accessing services, having a difficult time, but also being mindful that the minute i knew i was going to be going to prison i focused on reentry and how that works within the Transgender Community. Im an africanamerican transgender person and found that Reentry Services have been very, very hard for me and had to pave my own way with very little support. I have been denied reentry programs, having the same background as everybody else and the program and having to really advocate for myself and go two, three, four times through people to say hey, i feel i deserve this opportunity. I deserve this opportunity and not given this opportunity and i wanted to advocate for Dominique Leslie because she has worked in the community for a long time. She has really good work. She works well with all populations, its not just of the Transgender Community. And working with the Transgender Community is like filling a gap that i