With support from the California Arts Council, Back to the Start will, in collaboration with incarcerated artists, host narrative and story telling workshops at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (previously known as San Quentin State Prison). Centering equity and justice through first hand accounts, our program is producing narratives that highlight our nation’s systemic and racial inequities across a life time. Leveraging story telling and the arts, Back to the Start advocates for upstream policy solutions at the intersection of poverty, trauma, and systemic racism. The funds will allow us to host our third incarcerated cohort as well as build out and refine our curriculum for future cohorts which can be scaled and expanded to other sites.