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Building Homes Instead of Destroying Them
Niasia Kincy is a former foster youth who has been through many traumas, some of which they’ve overcame and others that will remain. Now, Kincy uses these lessons to gift to others a clearer path on the road to adulthood by serving as a Foster Youth Officer. Additionally, Kincy is a college student earning a bachelor’s degree as a health science major and intends to spread their message on foster care injustice as far and wide as possible. Through public speaking, Kincy knows they will and have touched the lives and hearts of others in an effort to combat the negative outcome of the foster care system.
Juvenile Court Fees and Costs Are Invisible Shackles That Tether Children to a Broken System
Miriam Aroni Krinsky is the executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, a former federal prosecutor, and the author of Change from Within: Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor. Joey Hastings. Joey Orduña Hastings is the chief executive officer of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the nation’s oldest...
Cycling Through Foster Care and Juvenile Detention
Loe Renee is a 22-year-old working professional and former foster youth who is interested in finishing their degree in film and has a passion for filmmaking and the arts. They are a lover of books and sweets, and volunteer at fundraisers for foster youth in their spare time.
Addressing the Overrepresentation of Native American Children in Foster Care
Jacqueline Robles is a policy enthusiast, consultant, and most importantly, a dog mom of two. After living in the Los Angeles foster care system in the Indian Child Welfare unit for over 15 years of her life, Robles was tired of the same statistics of Black and brown youth failing in the system. Identifying as both Indigenous and Latina, Robles was set on a career to “level the playing field” for youth of color. Robles has sat in various leadership positions to advocate and shape policy for Los Angeles’s foster youth. Currently, Robles is a consultant for the Office of Child Protection, working on a national initiative for foster youth called “Thriving Families, Safer Children.” Robles is a Youth Commissioner for the Board of Supervisors and was appointed by Board of Supervisor Janice Hahn. Robles earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business management at California State University, Long Beach and is projected to earn a master's degree in Public Policy from UCLA in June 2022.
We Are All People of the Harvest
Lino Peña-Martinez was in the foster care system in CA from the age of 5 onward. He studied the environment, art, and architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Peña-Martinez currently lives in Washington, DC where he works for Congress in the House of Representatives on energy issues as a Policy Analyst. He also is the Board President of Sun Scholars Incorporated, a nonprofit aimed at alumni in care and college in the state of Connecticut. He also coordinates digital operations for Unbelievably Resilient, an organization run by alumni dedicated to rewriting the narrative of what it means to come from or be part of the child welfare system. Peña-Martinez has the privilege of training social workers around the country on using the Connect Our Kids permanency software and uplifting many other transformative trailblazing social initiatives. He says the foundation of his resilience and personhood is service to others by way of time, energy, patience, flexibility, and a whole lot of unconditional love.
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