The Humanization Blog
Ultimately, both a primary goal and strategy of The Humanization Project is to highlight for the world the individual, complex, diverse human beings impacted by imprisonment, both past and ongoing. By sharing their strengths and successes, hopes and visions, skills and hobbies, even mistakes and fears, they can be relatable to anyone. Stereotypes will be replaced with human compassion.
Here we present a deep dive into some of the people you’ll be glad to know better, people who are important to their communities and families, people who are far more than their worst day. In various and sundry formats to reach diverse audiences we offer summaries, full written interviews, video interviews with retuning citizens, and more.
From Criminal Justice & Environmental Justice ~ Interview with Richard Walker
~ Note from Gin: Richard does so much amazing work, I don’t really know where to start. You can find him speaking at the legislature
From Buying a Home to Cooking Some Amazing Food and Growing a Wonderful Garden ~ Interview with Dale Henry
~ Note from Gin ~ Full disclosure, Dale is a very dear friend. He often sends me pictures of his beautiful flowers when they are
Trail Running, Solitary Confinement, and Finding Love ~ Interview with David Smith
~ Note from Gin ~ I forgot to include these originally, so I wanted to update this post. David is involved in so many positive
From a Rough Start to Uplifting Purpose ~ Interview with Travis Ford
*Note from Gin* Wow. I know this one is lengthy, but please read at least his first answer. So much raw real sharing about what