Today Taylor interviews Adam Grant

After his release from 27 years of incarceration in the Michigan's Department of Corrections Adam Grant decided he could not simply focus on his own life. He could not shake the fact that he had left good men (and women) behind and that Their Life Matters too. He could not shake the fact that he had hurt people over the course of his life and that Their Life Matters as well. Not only couldn't he shake those things, he realized he didn't want to, because they have been and continue to be fuel for the positive trajectory of his life.

So, with the bliss of ignorance, he has embarked on a mission to change the world, one person at a time. To him, people are more important than causes, thus the name of his organization; Their Life Matters. One person at a time is how the healing will take place. One life at a time is the only way to change the world. Their Life Matters, no matter who "they" are at any given moment.

This mission will StartwithTroy. This is our first campaign and the first life we are highlighting. Troy has spent the last 36 years in the MDOC, despite completely turning his life around and positively impacting the lives of countless men and women in and outside prison. As a human advocate, Adam will not rest until Troy is out here working with him, because Their Life Matters. There seems to be an appetite to address over-incarceration, second-look legislation, and other "criminal justice reform", to which Adam's response is simply, "Start with Troy!"

P.S. Their Life Matters is not a moral equivalency or another version of All LIves Matter. The plight and pain of blacks in this country is undeniable and we must acknowledge that black lives haven't mattered for much of this country's history, in the minds and hearts of many today, or in the institutions that were built on segregated structures. Their LIfe Matters chooses to focus on one Life at a time and when that life is a black life it definitely matters.

Please visit us at www.lifeofalifer.com