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Join the Free Minds Team

Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop seeks a passionate, experienced project manager and editorial leader to helm our Prison Book Club program, a long-distance, correspondence-based program with members incarcerated in prisons across the country. Reporting to the Deputy Director, the Prison Book Club Manager will ensure high quality service delivery for 800+ incarcerated members; this includes the publication of a magazine, personalized selection and shipment of thousands of books to incarcerated readers, coordination of a letter writing program with hundreds of volunteers, and facilitation of interactive digital events to foster community connections between writers and readers across prison walls.

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Building Wealth with Author Cedric Nash

In June 2023, author Cedric Nash joined our Men and Women’s Book Clubs at the DC Jail to discuss his book Why Should White Guys Have All the Wealth?: How…

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A line drawing of a man walking out of an open cell door, with thought bubbles showing a baby bottle, a wedding ring, an airplane, a diploma, dollar signs, and a house. Text reads Free Minds Connect. In this issue: Expectations. Living with Family After Incarceration, page 6. Real Talk about Mental Health, page 16. Expectations and Realities of Coming Home, page 24. Walking the Hills of Portugal, page 38.

Finding Balance Within Expectations

Our most recent Connect Magazine, Free Minds’ bimonthly publication written by and for our members, focuses on the theme of Expectations. In the Expectations Connect, we explored the differences between…

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