A group of UM criminology students working hard volunteering for Beyond the Bars!

Open mic poetry slam at Avon Park with Exchange for Change.

Attended the convening with members from Beyond the Bars to discuss fines and fees reform in the US. Sponsored by Cities and Counties for Fines and Fees Justice.




Team members from Project HOPE attended the Liberating Methadone Conference at NYU’s Center for Opioid Epidemiology & Policy held in partnership with the National Survivors Union and National Coalition to Liberate Methadone.


Project HOPE team members Edward Suarez, Krystle Culbertson, and Dani Estes at a team science training.

The Umbrella of Hope Reentry Summit was held on May 13, 2023 at the University of Miami. This event was organized by the Umbrella of Hope Reentry Coalition and sponsored by the Copeland Foundation, University of Miami’s Department of Public Health Science and Department of Sociology, and CHARM.







Sponsored by The University of California Washington Center, the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UC Merced, and Howard University’s Center for Urban Progress.


Reentry Summit planning meeting!

Canvassing in Overtown with Beyond the Bars! This project is funded by the University of Miami’s Racial Justice Grant Program and it being conducting in collaboration with Cassandra Michel (student lead), undergraduate student in the UM Department of Psychology, Donna Coker, JD, MSW in the UM School of Law, and Dr. Zinzi Bailey in the Miller School of Medicine.



