Dear Community,

What should happen after someone has successfully demonstrated rehabilitation?
Across the country, Fair Chance hiring policies, record clearance laws, and reentry programs have helped remove barriers to employment, housing, and opportunity. Yet a larger question remains:

Should there be a meaningful pathway through which people who have demonstrated rehabilitation can be recognized as fully restored members of society?

This year's Restoration Dialogue brings together some of the most respected voices in public defense, human rights, housing policy, reentry services, and criminal justice reform to explore what comes after rehabilitation and what true restoration could look like in practice.

Featured Speakers Bobby Jones-Hanley
Executive Director of PURE 1 Organization, founder of multiple reentry and youth empowerment initiatives, and a national advocate whose own lived experience drives his work creating opportunities for justice-impacted individuals.

Mano Raju
San Francisco Public Defender and California's only elected Public Defender. Widely recognized for advancing holistic defense, reentry opportunity, constitutional rights, and criminal legal reform.

Mawuli Tugbenyoh
Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. A longtime public servant whose work has focused on housing, civil rights, homelessness, and expanding opportunity for underserved communities.

Terah Lawyer
President of CROP Organization and one of the nation's leading voices on reentry, housing innovation, leadership development, and second chances. Her work has helped shape nationally recognized models for successful reintegration.

Shamus Roller
Executive Director of the National Housing Law Project and a nationally respected advocate on affordable housing, homelessness, and housing stability for vulnerable populations.

Ed Little
Member Advocacy Director for Californians for Safety and Justice and a leading policy advocate on record clearance, workforce development, reentry policy, and criminal justice reform.

Topics Include

• Rehabilitation and earned restoration
• Fair Chance employment and housing
• Record clearance and legal barriers
• Housing stability and reintegration
• Public safety and second chances
• Emerging policy innovations across the country
• What full citizenship should mean after rehabilitation

This discussion follows the Restoration Initiative Reentry Simulation and moves the conversation from surviving reentry to reimagining what successful reintegration should look like for individuals, families, and communities.

Because the question is no longer whether people can change. The question is what comes next when they do.

Register Today Reentry Conference & Expo
September 18, 2026, | St. Mary's Cathedral Event Center

Website link: Reentry Conference and Expo - Archdiocese of San Francisco 

We hope you'll join us for this important conversation.