Media Inquiries
CEO offers experts on a range of criminal justice, policy, and workforce development topics.
For all policy related inquiries please contact:
Claire Gross at cgross@ceoworks.org.
For all inquiries regarding regional sites please contact:
Tiffany Elder at telder@ceoworks.org.
Fair Chance Hiring
& Inclusive Employment
How fair chance hiring creates a more inclusive workforce, benefiting businesses, communities, and justice-impacted job seekers alike.
Breaking Barriers: Reducing Recidivism Through Stable Employment
Powerful evidence demonstrating how consistent, stable income significantly reduces recidivism rates.
Stories from justice-impacted individuals who have transformed their lives through immediate employment and steady income.
Skills Training: Building
Pathways to Thriving Careers
Advanced training opportunities that connect justice-impacted job seekers to high-demand careers, including commercial driving licenses (CDL), IT certifications, and other technical fields.
How targeted skills development creates long-term economic stability and mobility.
Tech Equity: Bridging the Digital
Divide in Reentry
Closing the gap between rapid technological advances and justice-impacted individuals returning home, including the innovative partnership between CEO and major online employer hubs.
Real-life impacts of digital literacy training and access to online employment tools on successful reentry outcomes.
Innovative Economic Solutions:
Cash Assistance Programs
CEO’s groundbreaking Returning Citizen Stimulus initiative: significant findings and why scaling direct cash assistance matters.
How reentry cash initiatives saves governments money by investing in people’s futures.
Legislative Action & Advocacy:
Food Security and Workforce Development
The need to pass a comprehensive, bipartisan farm bill that protects and expands food security.
Understanding the Training Nutrition Stability Act (TNSA): a bipartisan solution preventing loss of SNAP eligibility due to workforce development income support.
A Note on Messaging
At CEO, we suggest using phrases such as “formerly incarcerated individual” or "justice-impacted individual" to describe someone who has returned home from prison as alternatives to common terms like: ex-cons, convicts, ex-inmates, ex-offenders, felons, or ex-prisoners.
