Rich Griffin, the newest addition to the AFSC Michigan Team, hails from West Michigan. A Grand Rapids Native, Rich joins AFSC as a Program Associate working on The Good Neighbor Project, Let Me Tell You as well as Ending Life and Long Sentences. Rich comes from prior work as an organizer, coalitions coordinator and other positions in Criminal Justice Reform advocacy work. At the age of 16, Rich was convicted and sentenced as an adult to serve two life terms as a juvenile. After serving 23 years of those sentences, Rich has worked in advocacy roles since his release 5 years ago, showing and proving to be an asset in the Advocacy world for those folks who are living in Michigan communities with collateral consequences of Incarceration, as well as Michiganders who are currently serving time. In his spare time Rich is an avid Jazz enthusiast, pencil artist, poet, and writer and remarks: “You must be in love with what you do for it to be fulfilling."