White Collar Support Group? Speaker: Amy Nelson, Start Up Founder, Criminal Justice Reform Advocate, Tues., Nov. 19, 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT
Jeffrey D. Grant
Private General Counsel/White Collar Attorney at GrantLaw, PLLC, White Collar Support Group, Featured in The New Yorker & on the Rich Roll Podcast
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White Collar Support Group? Tuesday Speaker Series: Amy Nelson, Start Up Founder, Lawyer, Mother of Four, Criminal Justice Reform Advocate
On Zoom: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 7pm ET, 4 pm PT, Open to All!
Amy is a victim of civil forfeiture who weathered a four-year Department of Justice investigation into her husband's business activities, Read about it here: DOJ drops charges against 2 accused of bilking Amazon, https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/doj-withdraws-guilty-pleas-in-alleged-amazon-real-estate-fraud-scheme/.
Amy Nelson is the founder?of The Riveter,?a venture-backed company launched in Seattle in 2017. The Riveter launched as a co-working and community start up and pivoted during the pandemic to build?a career and media platform for Millennial and Gen X women, providing?the courses and tools needed to build the work life they want with thought leadership.?
A graduate of Emory University and the NYU School of Law, Amy previously wrote a column for Forbes, hosted an iHeartRadio podcast,?and?practiced litigation.?She is the mother of four daughters aged 10, 8, 7 and 5. In addition to raising $30 million in venture capital to grow The Riveter, Amy?has been published broadly including in/on outlets including Newsweek, The TODAY Show, Refinery29, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post and The Seattle Times. She has spoken across the world on many stages, including?Fortune's Most Powerful Women, Cannes Lions, and SXSW. Amy?is also an outspoken advocate for criminal?justice reform.
Amy?speaks to her community of over 500,000 on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter daily. You can follow her on all platforms at?@amy_k_nelson.
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White Collar Support Group? The World’s First Support Group Devoted to Those Navigating The White Collar Criminal Justice System.
Start Here?
It's the isolation that destroys us. The solution is in community.
We meet every Monday. Featured in the New Yorker.
We are a community of individuals, families and groups with white collar justice issues who have a desire to take responsibility for our actions and the wreckage we caused, make amends, and move forward in new way of life centered on hope, care, compassion, tolerance and empathy. Our experience shows us that many of us are suffering in silence with shame, remorse, and deep regret. Many of us have been stigmatized by our own families, friends and communities, and the business community. Our goal is to learn and evolve into a new spiritual way of life and to reach out in service to others.?This is an important thing we are doing!
Over 1200 Fellow Travelers have participated in our support group meetings from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South America, Central America, Israel, Mexico, Europe, Scandinavia, and the Caribbean.?All have agreed this has been a valuable, important experience in which everyone feels less alone, and gratified in the opportunity to talk about things in a safe space only we could understand.
WCSG members have free access to our private on-line community which features peer and mentoring support, our white collar job and career board, news and events relevant to our community, advocacy initiatives and partnerships with other nonprofits, and a wide array of other resources. We sponsor a monthly newsletter, a Tuesday Night Speaker Series (open to family and friends), social media channels, and our website hosts our widely-read?blog?with over ten years of important content.
Thank you for referring other justice-impacted people and families. We send out welcome packets to every new member:?[email protected].
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IMPORTANT!:?If you are currently on supervised release, probation, parole, or some other form of community supervision, it is important that you first discuss this with your P.O. To assist in this regard, information about our ministry is available on?prisonist.org.
Our contact information is below?if you or someone you know are in?need of support, or with?any questions you might have regarding this group, our weekly meetings, or anything else whatsoever.?
Our Next Meeting:
White Collar Support Group? 439th Meeting, Online on Zoom
Mon. November 18, 2024 7 pm ET, 6 pm CT, 5 pm MT, 4 pm PT
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YouTube Videos Now Available!
White Collar Conference 2024, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
The First-Ever Conference by and for White Collar Justice-Impacted People
For those of you who missed our White Collar Conference 2024 on Sat., Oct. 19th, the videos are now up on YouTube. It was the first-ever conference by and for people prosecuted for white collar crimes and their families, friends, colleagues, clients and anyone in need. I just watched the whole conference and it absolutely blew me away! Again!
The theme of the conference was “Starting Over: Out of Isolation and Into Community”. It is divided into four videos (the opening keynote/fireside chat and then three incredible panels) plus a mini-video on Online Reputation Management.
Above is the link to the second video, a panel discussion titled "Out of Isolation", moderated by former "Bridgegate" defendant and White Collar Support Group member Bill Baroni. Panelists Erika Cheung (Theranos Whistleblower), Elizabeth Kelley, Esq. (criminal defense attorney who represents people with mental disabilities), and Seth Williams (former Philadelphia District Attorney) discussed their personal and professional experience with navigating issues such as isolation, shame, and stigma in the justice system.
I hope you will join in and watch the entire White Collar Conference 2024 for all of the heartfelt stories, thoughtful advice, and life-changing takeaways. And please leave your thoughts and comments, they are most welcome and appreciated.
Blessings, ????? , Jeff
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Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he,?him, his)?
Co-founder, Progressive Prison?Ministries, Inc./White Collar Support Group? - Start Here?
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Thank you for sharing Jeff. The webinar that you had last time was the best one that I have ever attended. I might join in at some point on Tuesday evening or watch the highlights on Wednesday morning.