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Healing Broken Circles provides transformative programming and events for people most deeply impacted by systemic racism and mass incarceration. Programs support communal self-awareness, creative expression, healing and skill-building with opportunities to bridge social divides and build community. 

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The HOPE Program:
Healing, Opportunity, Prevention, Engagement

Empowering over 100 Columbus youth each year, the HOPE Program intervenes in cycles of violence, disconnection, economic stagnation, and justice involvement with innovative support. Created by justice-impacted individuals, HOPE offers tools for emotional regulation, creative expression, conflict resolution, and financial know-how—disrupting the pipeline to prison and equipping youth from underserved communities to thrive.

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The BackWall

The BackWall deepens the conversation about mass incarceration through the lens of the arts. Centering our justice-impacted voices, The BackWall challenges misinformation and inspires change through music, spoken word, dance, storytelling, and interactive experiences. ​

Fatherhood

Designed to strengthen the healthy bond between father and child, this program builds parenting and relationship skills, fosters self-awareness, and helps incarcerated dads deepen their understanding of and relationship with their children, while connecting families to valuable services.

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Build: Creative Expression in Correctional Settings.

Offering transformative opportunities for personal growth, self-expression and positive reintegration for youth and adults who are incarcerated, Build focuses on social, emotional, and healthy coping skills through artistic expression.​

HBC Staff

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Kendra Hovey

Executive Director
 
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Michael Powell

Director of Youth & Creative Programming 
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Eric Rollin

Associate Director
 

Teaching Artists and Facilitators

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Paniel Cromwell
BUILD Teaching Artist
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Al-Sabor Overby
HOPE Facilitator
 
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Keisha Steele
HOPE Facilitator
 

Board

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Aaron Conley

Executive Director, Leadership Programs, Vanderbilt University

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Benjamin Willis

Photographer and co-founder at Parable Coffee

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Malik Moore

Program Manager

Organizational Health Department, Franklin County Children Services

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Wyatt Shimeall

Manager, Market Insights, Abbott Nutrition

Advisory Council

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Michelle Alexander

Author of The New Jim Crow

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Sharon Mars

Senior Rabbi, Temple Israel

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Joe Deloss

Serial Entrepreneur, Founder of Hot Chicken Takeover

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Piper Kerman

Prison reform advocate, author, Orange is the New Black

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