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Alive & Free Training March 2018

The power of the Alive & Free Training is real! Here is our latest group, some are police officers, a judge, Community Ambassadors and more. The diversity of professional backgrounds really helps to bring the class together while learning the methods of our ultimate goal, to keep our community Alive & Free. Our DC attendee,…

Our College Prep Class recently had the opportunity to visit Google and listen to 5 panelists share their career experiences and paths towards working at Google.Serving as good role models and offering great advice, their words of wisdom were in alignment with the lessons taught here at the Alive & Free Leadership Academy. Here’s what the panelists said… “People who…

Leadership Academy Students Discuss Black Panther

#GivingTuesday is here and we want to show you how impactful Alive & Free is to our students!

The City of East Palo Alto Alive & Free presented a Proclamation to Alive & Free on October 3, 2017. “There have been zero homicides this past year, and I think one of the things that we can attribute that to is our community policing effort over the last 15-17 years. There has been a…

Dr. Marshall sits down with Golden State Warrior Shaun Livingston, who shares what it was like growing up in his hometown of Peoria, Illinois. “I think every kid goes through the challenges of wanting to be accepted, peer pressure (that’s probably the number one thing), learning to be confident and finding that confidence and…

“I started at City College of San Francisco and transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles and I am very grateful for the help from Alive & Free. The financial literacy class taught me to be disciplined, which I needed. Being a transfer student, I didn’t have the option of messing up like…

Alive & Free Consortium member Tamiko Ferguson in Kingston Ontario, Canada has been guiding young people away from the streets and steering them towards college using the Alive & Free Prescription. We would like to extend a special congratulations towards Adam Raymond and Dylan Schacter-Tribe, two of her students who grew up in challenging areas of Ontario,…

Twins Chelsea and Kelsey Stewart graduated this year! Growing up they had always attended school together, and college was their first time ever going to school apart. Chelsea earned her degree in Neuroscience from UC Santa Cruz and Kelsey earned her degree in Communications and Regional Development from UC Davis. “It was nice to have…