2024 Fair Chance Symposium - Arouet Foundation

Arouet Foundation's

Fair Chance EMPLOYMENT Symposium

presented by

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Champions Luncheon 11AM – 1PM

Summit Breakouts 1PM – 4PM

Arizona Biltmore – Grand Ballroom, 2400 E Missouri Ave

SYMPOSIUM NEWS & NOTES

About the SYMPOSIUM

Join Arouet and our community partners this fall for the 2024 Fair Chance Employment Symposium, an impactful event at the world-renowned Arizona Biltmore resort. Attendees will gain invaluable guidance about Fair Chance hiring practices from corporate leaders and policymakers that all businesses must have to become successful Fair Chance employers.

This year’s event will also be celebrating leaders of the Fair Chance Movement. These Fair Chance Champions are thought leaders in Arizona, helping us establish a Creative Workforce as the state’s 6th C. The day will feature powerful stories, testimonials, and presentations from experts and individuals with lived experience.

This incomparable, game-changing event also features:

Fair Chance educational materials from Arouet, including digital resources
Riveting panel discussions with Fair Chance policymakers, influencers & leaders with lived experience
First-rate Biltmore lunch and hospitality

Labor shortages are impacting businesses across the US. But rather than panic, many employers are addressing these shortages by hiring a largely untapped pool of talent while also improving public safety and their communities. And the talent is plentiful: 80 million+ people in America with a conviction or arrest history who only want a Fair Chance to succeed.

In Arizona, our competitive advantage depends on removing the barriers to employment that justice-impacted people face. Those barriers include 45,000+ restrictions and conditions that formerly incarcerated people must maneuver after their release.

It’s time that we overcome Arizona’s increasingly burdensome corrections budget, to which we lose billions in lost tax revenue and other costs to the state, by finally giving everyone a Fair Chance.

Speakers & HONOREES

Arouet’s Fair Chance Employment Symposium proudly features bold thought leaders in inclusive hiring practices.

Keynote

Stan Ball

As an Intel VP, Stan has an extensive track record of community engagement. Through the Business Roundtable in Washington, DC., Stan implemented the strategy for creating and growing the Second Chance Business Coalition, an organization composed of 47 of America’s largest employers that’s designed to reduce barriers for justice-involved individuals seeking employment. Stan graduated Magna Cum Laude from both Baldwin-Wallace University with a Bachelor of Arts in Business and with his Juris Doctorate from Cleveland State University’s College of Law. Read our keynote announcement and learn more about Stan.

1:1 with Leah Farrington

Leah, who lives in Prescott, is a case manager at community-based mental health provider Polara Health. Leah’s journey is a testament to resilience and transformation. Post-incarceration, she has immersed herself in the field of mental health and is committed to earning her master’s degree in counseling and psychotherapy, with plans to become fully licensed and pursue a Ph.D. at ASU.

Honorees

Hernandez, currently pursuing her law degree, is the youngest woman ever elected to the Arizona House, where she is in her third term. As a teen, Hernandez was exposed to “the broken criminal justice system” and, today, is passionate about passing criminal justice reform legislation.

A former supervising attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center and a graduate of Loyola University (Chicago) School of Law, Johnson now works for FWD to reduce incarceration and expand opportunities for people who have been impacted by the criminal justice system.

After spending 24 years in the California state prison system, including 8 years in solitary confinement, Oliver was released in 2019. Since then, Oliver has cemented himself as an expert and leader on record clearance, talent development, DEIJ practices, change management, and public policy.

An Army veteran and Illinois native, Kaiser was a successful small business owner who proudly hired employees with a conviction history when he was elected to the Arizona House in 2020 and to the state Senate in 2022, where he sponsored criminal justice reform and workforce legislation.

With 25+ years of banking experience with JPMC, Murphy’s work primarily supports nonprofits, thought leaders, and direct service providers helping those in low-income communities. Murphy is the Chair of the Arizona Community Reinvestment Collaborative and serves on the Arizona Housing Coalition committee.

Schedule

11:00 AM

Registration Opens

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Welcome remarks

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

Lunch is served

11:50 AM

12:05 PM

Honorees Presentation

12:05 PM

12:45 PM

Special Announcement

12:45 PM

12:50 PM

Call To Action & Closing

12:50 PM

1:00 PM

Refreshment Break

1:00 PM

1:20 PM

Breakout Sessions:
Seize the Opportunity: Building Your Fair Chance Hiring Program

Driving Success Through Fair Chance Employment

1:20 PM

2:40 PM

Break

2:40 PM

2:50 PM

Concluding Presentation:
Future of Work: Trends & Where We Go From Here

2:50 PM

4:00 PM

Closing

4:00 PM

Purchase Seats

Join us for the Fair Chance Employment Symposium!

Partner with us and learn how to successfully implement inclusive hiring policies that will open doors to a dedicated, loyal, and profitable workforce. The event will be attended by policy makers, thought leaders, and community influencers. Each of the below sponsorship levels come with 10 seats (a whole table) for guests of their choice.