Media Inquiries

CEO offers experts on a range of criminal justice, policy, and workforce development topics.
For all policy related inquiries please contact Claire Gross at cgross@ceoworks.org.
For all inquiries regarding
regional sites please contact Tiffany Elder at telder@ceoworks.org.

  • Fair Chance Hiring & Inclusive Employment
    - How fair chance hiring creates a more inclusive workforce, benefiting businesses, communities, and justice-impacted job seekers alike.

  • Breaking Barriers: Reducing Recidivism Through Stable Employment
    - Powerful evidence demonstrating how consistent, stable income significantly reduces recidivism rates.
    - Stories from justice-impacted individuals who have transformed their lives through immediate employment and steady income.

  • Skills Training: Building Pathways to Thriving Careers
    - Advanced training opportunities that connect justice-impacted job seekers to high-demand careers, including commercial driving licenses (CDL), IT certifications, and other technical fields.
    - How targeted skills development creates long-term economic stability and mobility.

  • Tech Equity: Bridging the Digital Divide in Reentry
    - Closing the gap between rapid technological advances and justice-impacted individuals returning home, including the innovative partnership between CEO and major online employer hubs.
    - Real-life impacts of digital literacy training and access to online employment tools on successful reentry outcomes.

  • Innovative Economic Solutions: Cash Assistance Programs
    - CEO’s groundbreaking Returning Citizen Stimulus initiative: significant findings and why scaling direct cash assistance matters.
    - How reentry cash initiatives saves governments money by investing in people’s futures.

  • Legislative Action & Advocacy: Food Security and Workforce Development
    - The need to pass a comprehensive, bipartisan farm bill that protects and expands food security.
    - Understanding the Training Nutrition Stability Act (TNSA): a bipartisan solution preventing loss of SNAP eligibility due to workforce development income support.

A Note on Messaging

At CEO, we suggest using phrases such as “formerly incarcerated individual” or "justice-impacted individual " to describe someone who has returned home from prison as alternatives to common terms like: ex-cons, convicts, ex-inmates, ex-offenders, felons, or ex-prisoners.