On June 22, 2016, Ed Kalegi and Christina Stoffo interviewed CAN-DO President and Founder Amy Povah about her work with the CAN-DO Foundation; the clemency project and our marijuana laws. Click the links below to listen or download the interview. Right-click Here to Download the Podcast The interview aired on the following stations nationwide:…
Anrica Caldwell was born in Los Angeles, California. She moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1988 and has been a resident for 30 yrs. Anrica finished high school and college in Pittsburgh and has been an educator for the Pittsburgh Public Schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for 23 years. During the past 10 years, Anrica has taught…
Please sign Roberta Bell’s change.org petition Name: Roberta Ronique Bell #08116-067 DOB: Sept. 4, 1971 Race: Black Age: 48 Children: Three children – 2 girls and boy. Ashley, Gerrid, and Jazzmin Two granddaughters – Riley and Riyan State from: Born in Rockford, Il – moved to PA at 14 Tried: in PA Charge: Conspiracy, Intimidation of…
Please sign David Barren’s change.org petition and share with your network. Help us bring David home to his family. David Barren’s sentence was commuted from LIFE to 30 years. This is shocking because so many men with multiple prior convictions received a full commutation who engaged in major drug trafficking. We hope that President…
Alaine Lowell became interested in drug policy in the early ’90s while working on a documentary about the history of marijuana in the U.S. She later wrote and directed, Grow Dutch, a documentary about marijuana in the Netherlands. In 2010, her series of articles on marijuana were voted “The Best of 2010” by the Pasadena Weekly….
Cheryl Ward is a Californian native who was incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 17 years, 6 months, 13 days and 1 hour from the time of her arrest in August of 1995. Upon her release in February of 2013 she started serving her supervised release assignments. She was granted early release from Kentucky,…
CAN-DO Founder Amy Povah is taking on Senator Tom Cotton because he’s holding up a bipartisan bill for criminal justice reform entitled The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015. Senator Cotton is from Amy’s home state of Arkansas but it was her home town of Charleston, Arkansas that created the groundswell that attracted the…