Richard Paul Morales, serves as the Deputy Executive Director of the Latino Coalition for Community Leadership (LCCL).  The LCCL is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides funding, technical assistance and capacity building to leverage the strengths of small, local non-profit organizations serving communities of color.   This is accomplished by providing robust organizational fiscal and data infrastructure, individualized organizational development, collaboration, and effective advocacy.  The LCCL has been the subject of various evaluations and case studies highlighting its model and approach that leads to strong performance and outcomes.   In addition to performance, strong fiscal accounting practices ensure good stewardship and return on investment. Richard has a strong belief in the ability of communities to create solutions to local issues when resources, expertise, collaboration and accountability are present.  Richard holds a Masters Degree in Management and a B.A. in Social and Behavioral Sciences with minors in philosophy and history.

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Jason Whyte is the Founder, President & CEO of the National Reentry Workforce Collaborative (NRWC), a network of organizations that spans across 173 cities in 40 states. He is responsible for casting the vision and guiding the collaborative’s strategic direction, leading the creation of innovative resources to close gaps in the reentry workforce field, and driving value to stakeholders that engage in NRWC. Jason served as the Director of Partnership Strategy at the Latino Coalition for Community Leadership (LCCL). In this role, he develops strategies and builds relationships to expand the organization’s work in Fair Chance Hiring. Before joining the LCCL, Jason led operations and strategy for the OIC of America national network, where he secured over $30M in federal and foundation funding; replicated national initiatives, programs and projects that support the organization’s ambitions of breaking the cycle of poverty; and expanded a national reentry program from one to ten cities. Jason served on a committee that provided expert advice to the Office of America Innovation at the White House. Jason holds a BS in Business Administration from Biola University and an MBA in Economic Development from Eastern University.

Ken Oliver is the Executive Director of Checkr.org, the corporate social responsibility and arm of Checkr, Inc. Checkr.org was created to redefine the narrative around arrest and conviction histories and to build a fairer future of work through Fair Chance skill development, employment, and policy change. Ken and his team’s work centers on galvanizing businesses, policy makers, and community stakeholders and being a catalyst for the creation of pathways for opportunity, livable wage employment and economic mobility for all individuals impacted by the criminal justice system – transforming lives, healing communities, and driving economic growth. Ken’s own remarkable journey started in 1996 when he was incarcerated and sentenced to 52 years to life in prison under California’s three-strikes law for “joyriding” as a passenger in a stolen car. He spent close to 24 years in prison, more than 8 of them in solitary confinement, for reading a book by former Black Panther George Jackson. With the help of Stanford University and Corporate law firm Mayer Brown, Ken won a civil rights lawsuit against the state resulting in a monetary settlement and his release from prison in 2019. Shortly after his release, Ken became a paralegal at a public interest law firm and shortly thereafter a state policy director. In 2020, Ken became a cofounder and the Executive Director of a nonprofit reentry organization created to providing justice impacted people with housing and reskilling in the technology and knowledge based economy, where he secured a historic investment of $28.5M from the State of California to build the first of its kind residentially based campus and tech career training center for justice impacted people in the country.