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Eddie B. Ellis Jr., Criminal Justice Reform Fellow

National Leadership Program, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017

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Eddie B. Ellis, Jr.

Eddie Ellis was a Criminal Justice Reform Fellow at RespectAbility. Ellis is a reentry advocate/consultant, trainer, mentor and motivational speaker. As a returning citizen with multiple disabilities and a person of color, Ellis’ experience provides invaluable insight and depth into his work that allows him to connect with and engage the community in which he serves.

He is the founder and CEO of OneBy1, an organization that works with communities and partners to provide youth development workshops and mentoring services to keep youth out of the corrections system and help those exiting the system stay out. Ellis also has written and published several resource guides offering service referrals, practical tips and inspiration to former offenders and parolees returning to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. He works hard to ensure that individuals reentering society are well informed and sufficiently equipped to make better choices for themselves and that they are truly given a second chance.

He recently wrote about his experience in The Washington Post: “I am one of the success stories from D.C.’s secondchance law for young offenders.”

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Eddie Ellis

Eddie B. Ellis Jr., is a Criminal Justice Reform Fellow at RespectAbility. Ellis is a reentry advocate/consultant, trainer, mentor and motivational speaker. As a returning citizen with multiple disabilities and a person of color, Ellis' experience provides invaluable insight and depth into his work that allows him to connect with and engage the community in which he serves.

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