Garien Gatewood

Each year, a diverse group of Chicago’s most promising professionals and leaders are selected for the LGC Signature Fellows Program. As the region's premiere civic leadership development program, participants are immersed in major socioeconomic issues facing the community and build connections that facilitate solutions. Using the city as a classroom, participants learn through interactions with private, public, and nonprofit decision makers, and work as a group to develop critical thinking… Show more

Each year, a diverse group of Chicago’s most promising professionals and leaders are selected for the LGC Signature Fellows Program. As the region's premiere civic leadership development program, participants are immersed in major socioeconomic issues facing the community and build connections that facilitate solutions. Using the city as a classroom, participants learn through interactions with private, public, and nonprofit decision makers, and work as a group to develop critical thinking, analytical, governance, and leadership skills. Show less

The Authority brings together key leaders from the justice system and the public to identify critical issues facing the criminal justice system in Illinois, and to propose and evaluate policies, programs, and legislation that address those issues. The agency also works to ensure the criminal justice system in Illinois is efficient and effective. The Authority’s specific powers and duties are detailed in the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act.

Restore Justice advocates for fairness, humanity, and compassion throughout the Illinois criminal justice system, with a primary focus on those affected by extreme sentences imposed on our youth. We create and support policies that allow those who are rehabilitated to go home, and that ensure those incarcerated, their families, and victim families have opportunities for healing and justice. We engage currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families, victims and their… Show more

Restore Justice advocates for fairness, humanity, and compassion throughout the Illinois criminal justice system, with a primary focus on those affected by extreme sentences imposed on our youth. We create and support policies that allow those who are rehabilitated to go home, and that ensure those incarcerated, their families, and victim families have opportunities for healing and justice. We engage currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families, victims and their families, communities, and concerned Illinoisans in advocacy and service within the criminal justice system. Show less

Through advocacy, public education, and direct representation of thousands of needlessly incarcerated people, we bring hope to and fight in community with incarcerated people and their loved ones for a brighter, more humane, more just system for us all.

Lighthouse Youth & Family Services is an agency dedicated to creating a community where every young person has the opportunity to thrive.

Each year, NJJN welcomes a diverse class of advocates and organizers of color, with demonstrated leadership acumen, to continue their advocacy efforts to bring broad, positive change to juvenile justice systems as Youth Justice Leadership Institute fellows.

During the year-long fellowship, fellows gain deeper knowledge about juvenile justice system structures and trends, learn about effective advocacy and organizing techniques, and are mentored by advocates who are advancing meaningful… Show more

Each year, NJJN welcomes a diverse class of advocates and organizers of color, with demonstrated leadership acumen, to continue their advocacy efforts to bring broad, positive change to juvenile justice systems as Youth Justice Leadership Institute fellows.

During the year-long fellowship, fellows gain deeper knowledge about juvenile justice system structures and trends, learn about effective advocacy and organizing techniques, and are mentored by advocates who are advancing meaningful system reforms. Show less