From Cellblock to Boardroom: Redefining Leadership | Angel Garcia | TEDxABQ

Angel Garcia, a violence intervention strategist and reentry advocate, reframes his own criminal record as a hidden curriculum. His talk asks audiences to look past a criminal record and consider what it may represent, and who is overlooked when decisions are made about who is fit to lead. Garcia is a former South Los Angeles gang member who served thirteen years across three prison terms. He now helps lead Albuquerque's Violence Intervention Program and draws on his book The Hood's Curriculum.

• A former gang member's perspective on a criminal record as a source of lessons
• Who gets overlooked when deciding who is fit to lead
• Work in violence intervention and reentry advocacy in Albuquerque
• Based on the speaker's book The Hood's Curriculum

Angel Garcia reframes the criminal record, once his own, as a hidden curriculum, asking who we overlook when we decide who's fit to lead. Angel Garcia is a violence intervention strategist, reentry advocate, author, and founder of Street to Strategy Consulting. A former South Los Angeles gang member who served thirteen years across three prison terms, he now helps lead Albuquerque's Violence Intervention Program and serves on the National Association of Reentry Professionals' board. Drawing on his book The Hood's Curriculum, Angel's talk asks audiences to look past a criminal record and consider what it might actually represent — and who we're overlooking when we decide who gets to lead. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx