Wyatt Lim-Tepper

By: Wyatt Lim-Tepper As a small non-profit organization, you’re not always sure where your next idea, collaboration, or area of support may come from. Anjuli and I went to high school together, and she has been a champion of the organization over the past few years. She has shared insight on how to maximize resources available to non-profits, connected us with volunteers through her company, F5, to develop an amazing social media campaign, and—most recently—served as a mentor through our...

By Naomi Friedland Jason Baum, 49, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, mainly in San Mateo. He said that despite being college-educated and coming from a good family, he still found a path toward incarceration. When Baum was arrested in 2013, he was working as a recruiter in the tech space, an industry he had been in since 1999.  Baum utilized his time in prison to reflect and better himself. “I used this time as if I were in school,” he said.  Baum said his mother would tell his daughter,...

By: Wyatt Lim-Tepper A Curiae recently celebrated the Northern District of California’s Conviction Alternatives Program’s 10th anniversary and Reentry Court’s 15th anniversary—honoring the participants, stakeholders, and staff who have made these programs such a success. One of the judges I work with suggested I read the foreword of Questlove’s Hip Hop Is History,   where he describes planning the 50th anniversary celebration of Hip Hop , condensed into a 10-minute Grammy performance. The...