Honoring Uncommon Heroes 2019

When:
November 13, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2019-11-13T18:30:00-05:00
2019-11-13T21:00:00-05:00
Where:
Impact Hub
220 4th Street
Suite 103, Oakland
CA 94607
Contact:
Uncommon Law
(510) 271-0310

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November 13, 6:30-9:00 pm/Impact Hub Oakland

Meet this year’s honorees Taina Vargas-Edmond and David Cowan:

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Taina Vargas-Edmond is the Founder & Executive Director of Initiate Justice, a grassroots organization created to build the political power of people directly impacted by mass incarceration. Under her leadership, Initiate Justice has recruited almost 17,000 members in prison, and fought for important policy wins such as passing and implementing Prop 57, eliminating the Felony Murder Rule (SB 1437), and advocating to restore voting rights to all people in prison and on parole in California.

Taina has a Master of Arts Degree in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from California State University, Northridge.

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David Cowan is the Director of a new organization, Bonafide, which connects with prison programs and organizes volunteers to meet newly released people at the gate with a “welcome back pack” of basic necessities. They then organize structured outings including critical learning goals and bonding activities to build learning and community among its newly released members. David is also the operations manager for the Prison University Project.

David has an Associate of Arts degree from Patten University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University in Criminal Justice.

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CONTACT:

Tel: (510) 271-0310
Fax: (510) 271-0101

Address: 220 4th Street, Suite 103, Oakland, CA 94607

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At this year’s event, we will enjoy food from CALA restaurant which hires formerly incarcerated employees for front and back of house positions (and was named the best Mexican restaurant in the U.S. by SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer). 

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