I Watch the First Good Trouble Panel DENVER (Sept. 22, 2020) — Defy Colorado, an independent nonprofit organization helping individuals with criminal histories create legal business ventures, today launched its “Good Trouble” virtual series to shine a spotlight on the...
Cassidy Ceresa has been volunteering with Defy Ventures Colorado since our inception. As a successful entrepreneur running her own lifestyle business since 2015, Cassidy has been featured by the Oprah Winfrey show, Voyage Denver, and 303 Magazine. Cassidy recently sat...
Defy Colorado strives to support our EITs upon release by helping them reach their own goals. Every EIT’s number one goal? Find a job! Our EITs report that obtaining employment is the first building block on their journey to personal achievement as it is...
Picture this, it’s September 13th, 2014, a crowd fills Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall as Kira Kazantsev is named Miss America. All of the contestants rush to the front of the stage to congratulate her. Among them is Brittany Lewis, Miss Delaware, and Stacey Cook, Miss...
i Read the Entire Article in CSU’s The Difference Magazine On November 13th, 2019 Griffin Moores, a Web Content Coordinator from Colorado State University, drove to Pueblo, Colorado, and walked inside a prison for the first time with Defy Colorado. Colorado...
Background I was released in December of 2019 after spending nearly 12 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections. Through most of my incarceration, I was assigned to a Colorado Correctional Industries (CCI) work crew at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility....
At Defy Colorado we are grateful that the conversation about racial injustice has shifted to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness. It is long overdue and the delay has been devastating to our country and its Black and Brown citizens. Our hope is that this...
As I write this, Denver’s streets are filled with people protesting for the 12th day in a row. I am proud to see so many in our community making their voices heard and speaking out against systemic racism and police brutality while honoring countless lives of black...
EXCLUSIVE: Defy Colorado Alum Abe Arrington Tells Us About His Commutation from Governor Polis Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993, Abron “Abe” Arrington had been locked up since 1989. Learn how this Defy Colorado alumnus and patent owner of a flood mitigation...
I Listen to the interview America jails more of its citizens than any other country in the world. More than 2 million citizens are behind bars. High incarceration rates deprive the nation of potentially productive talent and it drains the life force from people...
The Board of Directors at Defy Colorado (www.defycolorado.org), an independent nonprofit organization helping individuals with criminal histories create legal business ventures, today announced it has unanimously chosen Stacey Putka, a licensed social worker, as the...
For family members with a loved one who’s incarcerated, December can be an especially tough time of the year. Nearly half of adults in the USA have an immediate family member who has been incarcerated. That’s about 113 million people who have a close family...
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