Hello everyone and welcome to Freckled Foodie and Friends, a

podcast focused on making healthy living approachable hosted by yours truly Cameron Rogers.

Good morning everyone. Happy Friday I am so excited to share this episode with you.

We are joined with Dr. Jocelyn Rainey who is the CEO of

getting out and staying out also which we will refer to as GOSO and before I

introduce Jocelyn I just want to give a little bit of context.

GOSO is a citywide nonprofit based in Harlem that has helped over 10,000 formerly incarcerated

and justice involved young men achieve education, employment, and emotional well-being.

Their goal is to reduce recidivism, which is the rate which these coming out of prison and

jails commit crimes again by partnering with organizations

across the city to employ its members. It is an organization that my older sister

is involved in so I have attended events and learned about over the past recent years and a topic I deeply care about, which we'll dive into as we continue this conversation.

But welcome, Jocelyn, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

I'm so excited to have you here. I think I mean you obviously are doing incredible things and I want everyone to learn more about what you're doing but also the education behind it all and

as we as I just mentioned before we started recording

Just the stigma that goes into saying your, I don't want to use the word criminal, but you're formally incarcerated. And you know, statistics show what that impact has on the rest of your life and I think

it's a conversation that needs to be had more and more as we're starting to

really kind of unwrap and put a specific

lens on the mass incarceration that's happening in our country and the more and serious work that needs to be done fixing what has

happened over the past decades. Absolutely. So to kick things off before we dive into this topic and GOSO itself, could you please define

success for us?

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