We spent a beautiful day together at our annual Celebration of Freedom & Community at Kimball Farm in June. Although this is a private event for community members, we wanted to share the power of this special gathering with you:

We had 130 attendees, despite the rain, including 20 exonerees and freed people and their family members. Together, they spent 561 years wrongfully incarcerated. We were also joined by several family members representing our community members who are still behind the wall. We laughed, we cried, we danced, we broke bread, and we held space for each other.

As part of the event, each community member was asked an important question: If you could describe the essence of freedom in one word, what would it be? We had many different answers from “hope,” “redemption,” and “fresh air,” to “peace,” “choice,” “independence,” and the word most used to describe the essence of freedom: “Family.”