Join us for an unforgettable night of inspiration, fellowship, and a chance to make a difference in our community. Your generosity and presence brings hope and restores men leaving the prison system.

Date: Friday, December 6, 2024
‍Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
‍Location: AC Marriott at Cascades

Featured Speaker: Gregory Boyle

We are honored to welcome Gregory Boyle, Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries, as our keynote speaker.

Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, California – the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.

Fr. Boyle is a Jesuit priest who served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church from 1986 to 1992. It was then the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city. In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppression and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, Fr. Boyle and parish community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: treat gang members as human beings.

In 1988, they started what would become Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises and provides crucial services to thousands of men and women who are seeking a better life.

He is the author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024, the University of Notre Dame's 2017 Laetare Medal, and was named a Champion of Change in 2014 by President Obama.