UnCommon Heroes: How We Heal

1255 7th Street,Oakland CA 94607

09 November, 2022

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Each year, UnCommon Heroes presents a special opportunity for our growing community to come together and say "welcome home" to former clients, loved ones, and others who have recently returned home from prison. It also provides us with a platform to celebrate folks in our community doing the hard, often unrecognized work of making these reunions outside prison walls possible. This year, UnCommon Heroes is back in person, and we're celebrating the immense power of healing: at the individual level, as a wider community, and the important work that's being done to heal society from the harms of mass incarceration. Join us for our biggest, loudest, best UnCommon Heroes celebration yet, and help us continue to provide healing pathways home from prison for many more people to come! Featuring: A series of live poetry performances, a conversation with our UnCommon Heroes, food, drinks, fun, and much more! Become a sponsorUnCommon Law supports people navigating California's discretionary parole process through trauma-informed legal representation, mental health counseling, legislative and policy advocacy, and in-prison programming led by those who have been through the process themselves. We rely on the support of generous community partners to make this work possible. To learn more about event sponsorship, and championing our work at a higher level, click here. Ken Hartman Ken is an award-winning author, a long-time activist for more and better programming opportunities inside of the prison system, and a community teaching artist. Ken served 38 years of a life without the possibility of parole sentence before being released in 2017 after his sentence was commuted. He lives in the Los Angeles area. Ny Nourn Ny is the Co-Director of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, anti-deportation organizer, and strategist focused on incarcerated criminalized survivors. Criminalized as a domestic violence survivor, Ny was detained by ICE after serving 16 years in state prison. Due to community advocacy and Ny’s leadership, Ny was freed from detention in 2017 and received a gubernatorial pardon in 2020, preventing her deportation to Cambodia. Lonnie Morris Lonnie was incarcerated for 44 years, most of them at San Quentin State Prison. While there, he obtained a B.A. degree in Communication from Antioch University, learned Television production, and co-founded No More Tears, a violence and crime prevention organization. Lonnie was released from prison in 2021, and now works with high schoolers and college students, and mentors men who have recently been released from San Quentin and other prisons.