Co-Founder and Healing Justice Organizer

Cory Greene is a formerly incarcerated co-founder and Healing Justice Organizer with How Our Lives link Altogether! Cory is currently invested in developing and supporting the development of an-intergenerational youth-led, city-wide Healing Justice Movement.

Healing Justice Organizer

Keron "Ron" Bennett is a 27-year-old Belizean Healing Justice Organizer with How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A) and Youth Organizing Collective (Y.O.C). Ron is a former next steps participant and a Brooklyn Community Foundation 2017-18 fellow and also a poet. He brings his immigration histories and experiences to the struggle for Human Justice. Keron has dedicated the majority of his life to helping young people around him heal and develop. Favorite Quote: Every day is a teachable moment not only for people who you surround your self with but most importantly yourself “Ron was critical leading Healing Justice circles/workshops throughout New York. He is now a graduate of our 18-month Youth Leadership transformation and healing process/training. He continues to use his leadership skills with his new roles as a Healing Justice Organizer.

Healing Justice Organizer

Machlie is a Healing Justice Organizer who joined How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A!) to give back to the LGBTQ community. Machlie’s main focus has been to uplift the experiences and voices of the LGBTQ youth community. Especially for the young Haitian youth who are apart of the LGBTQ community, but don’t show up that way because they are afraid of being disowned by their families.

Co Founder, Board Member, and Healing Justice Organizer

Thomas "Arocks" Porter - referred to be called Arocks is a formerly incarcerated person who spent 9 years in NY State Prisons. He is one of the Co-founder and leading Healing Justice Organizer with (H.O.L.L.A!) How Our Lives Link Altogether! AROCKS also is a Consultant/Senior Mentor/Credible Messenger for the Arches and Next STEPS program, located on the west side of Harlem. In the Arches program, he works closely with the Department of Probation to support and assist youth between the ages of 16 and 25 who are entangled in the criminal injustice/punishment system. An activist at heart, Arocks is sincerely passionate about making systematic changes in urban communities. Arocks has shared his past experience within the criminal punishment system with many. He has done volunteer work with individuals, other community-based organizations, colleges and community centers to promote social change. Leveraging his past entanglement with the criminal punishment system, Arocks believes education and giving back is a way he and others can indirectly and directly support youth living in under-resourced communities.

Healing Justice Organizer

Shaq is a Healing Justice Organizer, On-boarding Board Member and Curriculum Developer with H.O.L.L.A! Shaq is 22 years old, he joined H.O.L.L.A! when he was 19 years old as a senior in High school.

Shaq successfully went through H.O.L.L.A!’s 18-month healing-centered, youth-organizing training. Shaq helped organize H.O.L.L.A!’s first ever Talent show, which played a major role in launching H.O.L.L.A!’s Healing Justice Movement titled , “Let The Talents Heal.”

Shaq was critical leading Healing Justice circles/workshops throughout New York. He is now a graduate of our 18-month Youth Leadership transformation and healing process/training. He continues to use his leadership skills with his new roles as a Healing Justice Organizer.

Co-Founder, Elder, Circle Keeper, and Healing Justice Organizer

Gregory Barnes is a formerly incarcerated Co-Founder and Healing Justice Organizer with How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A!). Gregory Barnes is an experienced Anti-Violence trainer and Health Peer Educator. Barnes is an Intern Facilitator / Data Entry Technician at CMO - Network. At Community Minded Organization, Barnes conducts weekly support groups to men and women newly released who are currently under Community Supervision.

From a youth to adulthood, Mr. Barnes spent his life inside the walls of the Criminal Injustice System, and has witnessed, first-hand, the criminality that has been inflicted on other people in prison, by the staff who’s responsibility is “to protect you.”

“Bukhari” continues to work in the helping profession as a PCA - Personal Care Assistance, and as a NYCHA employee.

Healing Justice Organizer

CGP: They, Them, Alex and Love

Alex is a 90's baby Born in Brooklyn, NY. Alex's family is from Honduras and the South Mississippi. The Legacy Alex stand on comes from ancestral wisdom, the people movements that come before them, the Women who have unconditionally cared for them, and the Struggle. Alex is a Healing Justice Organizer with H.O.L.L.A! (How our lives link altogether), which is a grassroots organization that stands on the Legacy of other grassroots movements such as The Green haven Think Tank. H.O.L.L.A! focuses on using Human and Healing Justice practices and Community organizing as a portal for youth who have been impacted by structural violence, can become leaders of their communities.