Danny Ray Thomas is a graduate of the Stratford Career Institute with a diploma in psychology and social work, and has received a certificate in “offender responsibility” from the American Community Corrections Institute. He is the creator and facilitator of the “Leading the Way” mentorship workshop and the “The Forward Initiative” reentry program, as well as the president of “Veterans United for Change,” their institutional veterans treatment program.

His motivation is reflective of the words Antonio Gramsci wrote in his prison notebooks: “I want, following a fixed plan, to devote myself intensely and systematically to some subject that will absorb me and give me a focus to my inner life.”

Mission accomplished!