Today, Sharon Richardson is the possibility of love and abundance.

In 2015, she founded her Brooklyn social enterprise, Just Soul Catering, which cooks Southern specialties like collard greens, mac n’ cheese and fried chicken and delivers them to events around New York City. Not only has the business become the bedrock on which Richardson is creating economic opportunity for herself, she is also hiring other formerly incarcerated women to staff her events.

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June Lee found that kind of restoration through a Northern California program called Project ReMADE that’s run out of the Stanford Law School. Co-founded by Angela McCray, a former law student now corporate lawyer at Gunderson Dettmer, and Debbie Mukamal, executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, the program is led largely by a rotating cast of law and business students, who teach participants and mentor them together with Silicon Valley executive volunteers.