The Greater Gwinnett Reentry Alliance 2022 Better Chances Symposium 

Don't miss our return to an in-person Symposium with our 2022 Better Chances Symposium. Our keynote speaker this year will be Tony Lowden.

 

We will also hear testimony from returning citizens and our local service providers. This is a wonderful time of celebration of our justice-involved community, from law enforcement, to providers, to returning citizens and their families.

You don't want to miss it!

 Tony Lowden is pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where his congregation includes former President Jimmy Carter, and he is a chaplain for the Secret Service in Southwest Georgia. He was appointed by the White House in 2020 as Executive Director of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime ePrevention and Improving Reentry in 2020. Also appointed by the Federal Government to lead the First Step Act as Reentry CZAR. Lowden was appointed by Governor Nathan Deal in 2012 to the State Charter School Commissioner. After serving as project coordinator for the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, Lowden served as the Director of Faith and Justice Initiative for the governor’s office of Transition Support and Reentry. Reared in North Philadelphia in a single-parent home, Lowden double majored in Economics and Government at the University of Southern California while on an athletic scholarship and earned his Master of Divinity at NEO Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Lowden was founder and executive director of STONE Academy, an after-school enrichment program for at-risk children in the Macon Bibb County arra and has served in leadership capacities in numerous civic organizations in Middle Georgia. He is a 2011 graduate of Leadership Georgia, a 2014 graduate of the inaugural class of the Bailey-Sullivan Leadership Institute of the Black Alliance for Educational Options(BAEP) and a member of American Enterprise Institute(ARI) Leadership Network Fall 2016 class.Lowden and his wife , G. Pilar Lowden, have one daughter.