About Us And Our Organizations

Reentry Initiatives For Today R.I.F.T.

Leann “Mina” Lincoln Junior Sanchez {LION}

Founder

Executive Director Chair Research & Development Author

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Co-Founder

• Chief Executive Officer• Vice Chair• Business Awareness

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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.“ ` Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

OUR MISSION

To create career opportunities for the recently incarcerated once released is a task that we will never cease to undertake. With efforts from organizations and individuals throughout the United States we will integrate those that wish to contribute to society back into it.

ABOUT US

R.I.F.T. Reentry Initiatives For Today, a collaborative research and development strategy specifically aimed at the empowerment of the formerly incarcerated person. R.I.F.T. is a committed endeavor of assisting both men and women with the drive to become successfully reintegrated into their communities and furthermore a [real] opportunity to pursue the endeavor of becoming successful entrepreneurs.

All Of Us Or None

Leann “Mina” Lincoln Junior Sanchez {LION}

CEO/President

Dallas, Fort Worth Chapter

CEO/President

New York Chapter

Who We Are

All of Us or None is a national organizing initiativestarted by formerly-incarcerated people to fight againstdiscrimination faced after release and to fight for the human rights of prisoners.We are determined to win full restoration of our civil and human rightsafter release from prison. Our goal is to build political powerin the communities most affected by mass incarceration and the growthof the Prison Industrial Complex.

The emergence of All of Us or None is a concrete manifestationof the people most affected by an issue building a movement to combat it.Because the membership of All of Us or None is predominantly people of color,our emergence as a leading organization in the white-dominated criminal justice/anti-prisonmovement has a concrete impact on this movement.

We’re committed to organizing formerly-incarcerated people to build amovement in Oakland, by working in coalition with other community groupsand organizing campaigns, such as Ban the Box and Clean Slate. We have beenvery visible in both campaigns in Oakland, doing public education about theissue through circulating petitions, public speakouts, and involving the communityin making demands of the Mayor and City government. We have expanded the originalSafer Oakland coalition by organizing other endorsers and activist sponsors.We are also focusing on implementation of other parts of the Plan, such asopposing immigration raids and the expansion of the Oakland police force.Because we are comprised of people who have been in prison, our voicein the criminal justice and anti-prison movement is essential and respected.Our active participation in the Oakland One Table and comprehensive reentryplanning, has been essential to highlighting the real needs of peoplecoming back to Oakland and Alameda County after prison.

Beyond Oakland, we’re working in communities statewide and nationally.We use our coherent program as a tool to organize other criminal justiceadvocacy groups to support our campaigns. We are actively building a nationalnetwork of formerly-incarcerated activists and organizers, with a goal ofcreating consensus on some national campaigns that we can move forward collectively.