Wyatt Lim-Tepper

By Naomi Friedland After a criminal charge motivated Becky Davis to recover from addiction, she has since given back to the communities that supported her, helping others through reentry and recovery. “It was not hard, but it wasn’t easy,” Davis said. “All of it is so worth it because the alternative is 10 years in prison.” She said through CAP she learned how to live life sober. Therapy and rehab helped her deal with the trauma, heartache and grief that kept her in addiction. Davis also...

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,...