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Celebrating 2025
Our 2025 year-end series of newsletters highlighted a variety of our program partners' reflections on the profound need for structures of...
“Hi, Neighbor!” Meaningful connections can help reduce recidivism.
On December 10, Beyond Us & Them cohosted its latest in-person offering for the reentry community, in partnership with Transform...
A Letter from Executive Director Jared Seide
We place an empty chair in every council circle we offer, whether in a prison, a police precinct, a classroom,...
“Listening from the Heart” – A Conversation with Jared Seide
In this episode of the Peacemakers Podcast, hosts Jim Hōden Fricker and Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe sit down with Jared Seide...
“Her Path Forward” event aims to uplift the women returning home post-incarceration
https://youtu.be/6C2dUc1--SM Beyond Us & Them's latest Los Angeles Reentry Collaborative convening, entitled "Her Path Forward," provided a space to uplift...
Beyond Us & Them Hires Veteran LAPD Officer to Grow Peace Officer Wellness, Empathy & Resilience (POWER) Training Program
“Changing the way public safety looks” Beyond Us & Them's Lyndon Barber (far right) with former LAPD colleagues Lyndon Barber...
From Experience to Impact: Grantmaking & Identity in Reentry
Members of Beyond Us & Them's Los Angeles Reentry Collaborative share reflections on grantmaking and identity in reentry. On June...
“Investing in prison rehabilitation programs will make California safer,” a former warden and CDCR director urges continued funding for prison programming in a new Op Ed
Writing in the Sacramento Bee, Ron Broomfield -- former warden of San Quentin prison and former CDCR Director -- calls...
