Presents

"Tackle The Shackles"

 Become a Game Changer!

 And "Team Up" with 

 NFL players, Providers, Police Officers, and Returning Citizens!!!

A Prison Reentry Network Event

Special Guest Speaker,

Former Reentry Czar of the United States of America

Mr. Tony Lowden

 

 

Tackle the Shackles (TTS) is a community based movement to reduce prison recidivism by empowering Returning Citizens to obtain jobs, affordable housing, transportation, and have the assistance of a Life Coach. Our goal is to partner with current and former NFL Football players, Reentry Resource Providers, Law Enforcement and Returning Citizens to give them an opportunity to network and "team-up" for this worthy cause.

The main focus for this event is to Meet, Greet, and Eat with other like minded individuals and organizations and to build resource and relationship capacities for the purpose of reducing prison recidivism. Therefore, we believe that reentry works best networking with the right partnerships. "Many hands make lighter work!" 

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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 Whire House in 2020 as Executive Director of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime ePrevention and Improving Reentry in 2020. 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.