What’s your worst nightmare and what do you take for granted most in your life? Do you have the opportunity to pursue your dreams? If you were given a clean slate in life right at this moment, an opportunity, a hope, how might you live differently?

Our guest today has lived through a life of hell on earth. Incarcerated when seventeen and spent twenty years in prison for first degree manslaughter and dealing drugs, his life would take a dramatic change in course when given the opportunity to study and earn an associate in arts degree from Bard College through the Bard Prison Initiative.