For our December Justice Champion Spotlight, we spoke with Social Profit Corrections’ Brian Koehn about building compassionate prisons and the future of corrections.

Greyston Bakery is the newest employer joining Unlock Potential, expanding their existing Open Hiring model to create meaningful first-chances for at-risk youth.

For our October Justice Champion Spotlight, we spoke with Greyston Bakery’s Joe Kenner about Unlock Potential, Open Hiring, and baking with a purpose.

For our August Justice Champion Spotlight, we spoke with I Have A Bean’s Pete Leonard about making great coffee and creating real second chances.

Sam’s Club is the newest company joining Unlock Potential, a groundbreaking first-chance hiring program designed to create meaningful career opportunities.

For our June Spotlight we sat down with Dr. Marvin Carr, Director of the Walmart.org Center for Racial Equity. Click to read more about the most effective ways companies can fight for a fair and equal society, our incredible Unlock Potential partnership, and his storied opera career!

American Family Insurance and Delta Air Lines are the two newest businesses to join Unlock Potential.

For our Second Chance Month Spotlight, we sat down with a true Second Chance Champion - Drew Patterson, owner of Basic Industries. For years Drew and Basic have worked with the Colorado Department of Corrections to provide employment opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals - and he knows firsthand the benefits to businesses, employees, and the communities they serve.

To kick of 2022’s Spotlight series we’re profiling Kelly Services - a global workforce solutions provider that connects talented people to companies. They do this across 25 countries - placing around 370,000 people every year - and are committed to providing meaningful second chances for justice-impacted workers. We sat down with Keilon Ratliff, Professional and Industrial Global Vice President of Operations, to find out why.

For our final Spotlight of 2021 we profiled Checkr.org, the brand new philanthropic arm of leading technology company Checkr, and their Executive Director Ken Oliver. The organization was founded to fundamentally rethink how we provide second chances - through fair chance hiring, background checks and beyond. It is a mission that Ken, who himself spent almost 24 years behind bars, knows a great deal about.

For November’s Spotlight, RBIJ sat down with Jeff Baldassari, CEO at U.S. Rubber Recycling - a triple-bottom-line businesses fundamentally committed to creating second chances in California. Having adopted second chance hiring over 20 years ago, formerly incarcerated people now make up half their workforce, and they remain deeply committed to both the business case and the social purpose of tapping into the justice-impacted talent pool.

For our July Spotlight we interviewed Joe DeLoss, the owner and Head Fryer at Hot Chicken Takeover. Joe founded HCT with a simple mission: to create extraordinary experiences for extraordinary people. That mission is about way more than food. Find out how and why they provide meaningful employment opportunities for people disadvantaged by adversity.

This month’s Justice Champion Spotlight falls on Jeffrey Korzenik, the Chief Investment Strategist at one of the U.S's leading business banks, Fifth Third Bank. Jeff is a leading advocate for hiring individuals for criminal records and his recently released book 'Untapped Talent' focuses on the business case and best practices around doing so. We caught up with him to discuss the economic rationale behind fair hiring, and why businesses that don't adopt the talent strategy risk being left behind.

For Second Chance Month, we are highlighting a purpose-built business and long-standing RBIJ ally committed to helping people with felony convictions and problems with addiction - Nehemiah Manufacturing. By providing justice and addiction impacted individuals with the employment opportunities and support necessary to effectively re-enter society, this company - and their founder Dan Meyer - are amazing examples of the transformative role that businesses and their leaders can play in their communities.

Jochebed consults with RBIJ on financial sector engagement in the social equity space and the coordination of financial actors in the fight for fairer systems of criminal justice.

We sat down to understand her story, what inspired her to set up J Aduke Consulting, what made her get involved in justice reform, and the role she feels investors play in creating a fairer and more equal society.

For Black History Month, we are highlighting the work of GRID 202 - a financial advisory firm using investment to address racial injustice, and their founder and managing partner Keith Beverly, who works with individuals in institutions to “generate returns with impact and discipline” - with a specific focus on racial equity.

For January’s Spotlight we profiled 70 Million Jobs - an employment agency for people with criminal records - and their founder Richard Bronson, who was inspired to help people back on their feet after he struggled to find work post-incarceration.

For our end-of-year Spotlight we wanted to profile a company that has long been a vanguard of the justice-impacted community, and the amazing work they are doing to help returning citizens: Dave’s Killer Bread.

For this month’s Spotlight, RBIJ are celebrating the great work being done by our partner Flikshop and their founder Marcus Bullock, to connect incarcerated people with their loved ones.

In this month’s Justice Champion spotlight, RBIJ are highlighting our partner Cisco’s work delivering digital education in our prisons and providing incarcerated people with the skills they need to rebuild their lives on release.