He is also a published author, advocate, and the executive director of From Prison Cells to PhD—a nonprofit organization that mentors disadvantaged youth and formerly incarcerated individuals by providing weekly tutoring, mentoring and executive coaching to further their education. (In fact, 7 out of 7 scholars from the first cohort were recently admitted to college.) In addition to these accomplishments, he was recently chosen to become JustLeadership USA’s Leading with Conviction Fellow, through which he will join the organization to cut the prison population by half by 2030.