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LaResse Harvey
LaResse Harvey is A Better Way Foundation’s African American Policy Director. She is a formerly incarcerated single mother with over ten years experience in community activism on issues of a woman’s right to choose, housing, re-entry, drug treatment and custodial parental rights. She holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Social Work from Saint Joseph College in West Hartford and several Associate Degrees: Human Services, Liberal Arts & Science, and General Studies. Currently she is working on her MA at Post University in Waterbury. She has conducted strategy caucuses at University of Connecticut School of Social Work using 'The Arts' as a tool to reduce recidivism and Undoing Racism training at Saint Joseph College with future educators.
Currently Ms. Harvey is organizing residents, business owners, advocates, and social agency staff to address issues of reintegration, immigration rights, anti-surveillance, housing, homelessness, hunger, employment rights, marijuana reform, fairness in sentencing and child support as part of A Better Way Foundation’s Restorative Justice Campaign.