The ol’ Food Truck is ready for bookings! Have an office party, celebration or rally you want us to attend? Know a brewery who needs a resident food truck? (it's true, our grilled cheese pairs perfectly with brews 🍻) We got you! Spread the word, fam. Booking link below: https://lnkd.in/gKp8vZqx
All Square
Civic and Social Organizations
Minneapolis, Minnesota 640 followers
Neon Lights & Civil Rights @allsquarempls
About us
All Square is a civil rights social enterprise that uses its brand, commercial activities, and social programs to channel wealth and power to those impacted by mass incarceration—thereby intervening in the private market to the benefit of those whom the market was specifically designed to exclude. We channel our investment in those impacted by mass incarceration through two arms: The Fellowship & Restaurant: Our Fellowship invests in 14 justice-impacted Fellows annually, building on their existing skills and goals to foster economic mobility. The Legal Revolution: Our Legal Revolution’s Prison-to-Law Pipeline program democratizes legal education by ensuring that incarcerated scholars have access to ABA-accredited paralegal and legal degrees.
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http://allsquarempls.com
External link for All Square
- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Nonprofit
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4047 Minnehaha Avenue
Employees at All Square
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The Legal Revolution is honored to welcome, and host, Equal Justice Works Fellow Lucy Chin. Lucy's EJW legal work with the Revolution's law firm will address the expansive web of collateral consequences by working alongside justice-impacted organizers and currently incarcerated law students & paralegals to provide holistic civil legal services. Lucy will also work in partnership with community organizations to facilitate community education and community practice spaces in order to identify areas for affirmative litigation and policy advocacy. Finally, Lucy's work will utilize participatory legal scholarship methods to co-creating advocacy and educational materials that ensure widespread awareness about the changing criminal legal landscape.
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We are so excited to announce the newest members of our All Square and Legal Revolution boards! Joining our All Square board of directors are Billy Mzenga, MA; Mike Sullivan; Ricky Ray Vontayein, and Michelle Wirtz, CPA . New to our Legal Revolution board is Luisa Surmak. With a broad range of expertise from law to social innovation, finance to entrepreneurship and lived experience with incarceration, we are honored to welcome such incredible talent: Billy Mzenga is the Director of the Institute for Social Innovation at the University of St Thomas where he is working on implementing a strategy to position the University as a national and global leader in social entrepreneurship and innovation. Prior to his work at St. Thomas, Billy and his wife, Megan, built a social business called NutMeg that used a portion of its profits to support Chicago-based non-profits. Mike Sullivan is a Board and CEO Advisor. He brings strong experience leading board governance, human resources functions, and enterprise-wide transformations. Throughout his career, he has consistently over-delivered results by driving organizational change. Luisa Surmak is a corporate associate at Fredrikson & Byron, PA. Luisa has a dedicated passion to pro bono work and criminal justice reform; specifically, she is committed to creating and sustaining meaningful transformation for those impacted by mass incarceration. Ricky Ray Vontayein is the owner and president of All Star Cars LLC, established in 2020. After ending up on the wrong side of the law in high school, Ricky Ray utilized his time on the inside and received an AA degree, developed several business plans, and cultivated the drive to stay free. He has always had a calling to help guide those recently released from incarceration, having successfully navigated re-entry himself. Michelle Wirtz is the CFO at Pyx Heath. She has over 16 years of experience in finance, particularly in the healthcare industry. Having served on multiple nonprofit boards, Michelle brings a depth of governance experience and financial finesse to the All Square board. Check out our website to meet the rest of our boards and our staff! https://lnkd.in/e8gtrjKf
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We are excited to welcome Erin Daniel as All Square’s Executive Administrator! Erin, who strongly believes in the power of local change to disrupt larger systems of oppression, has a background in cultural studies and research administration. She holds an undergraduate degree in global studies from the University of Minnesota and a graduate degree in cultural studies from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. In her free time, you can find her making art, hiking and testing out new recipes (yes, we’re waiting for her gourmet grilled cheese recommendations…. ;) We see you, Erin! Welcome to the team. Headshot by Emily Baxter
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Welcome to the team, Kevin T. Britton II, Esq.!
We are excited to welcome Kevin T. Britton II, Esq. as a staff attorney with the Legal Revolution! Kevin, who attended Howard University School of Law, is committed to leveraging his skills and personal experience to provide counsel and perspective as a Black professional who emerged from the influences of the inner city. While at Howard Law, Kevin was a legal intern for the United States Attorney’s Office, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice. Upon graduation, Kevin moved to Minneapolis and went on to become a junior trial associate at Dorsey & Whitney LLP. Kevin resigned from his position at Dorsey to recalibrate his career goals toward criminal justice, joining the Legal Revolution Law Firm. Here, his goal is to help further justice and the well-being of the community as a skilled litigator with the ability to adapt to new areas of law. We see you, Kevin! For those who want to see Kevin in action, join us this Thursday, December 14th @ 6pm where he will be leading a Community Education Series on criminal expungements. Link for registration below: https://lnkd.in/evfMKic9 Headshot by Emily Baxter
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It’s here! We've had the honor of reflecting on the last 5 years of All Square and what we've accomplished (so far!). Looking ahead, we are eager to continue the work of healing the harms created by the criminal legal system alongside so many here in MN. With your support, we can continue our work. 🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿 Link to donate below! https://lnkd.in/gSfkMCFa
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It’s true! O’s Kitchen now has its own brick & mortar commercial kitchen 🧱 with an official Soft Launch on Thursday eve, November 30th. Reserve your spot and enjoy the city’s most divine cuisine—and support this amazing woman who built this beautiful engine from the ground up. We see you, Onika! Grab your tix here: https://lnkd.in/gMFBUSeV
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There was so much criminal justice movement in the 2023 legislative session. What do these new laws mean for our community? Join us (and many amazing panelists) for this full day CLE to learn all about the historic updates. Tickets for justice-impacted people and families are free. Attorneys: there are some serious CLE credits available ;) Register here: https://lnkd.in/gSxiaxNP
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Tonight, we get to celebrate the one and only Guy Bowling and his incredible leadership of the Father's Project for the past two decades. As he transitions to the next chapter in his leadership (his Phd!) -- we can't wait to pour into him the way he has poured into others over the years. Guy: to us, you're so much more than a board member. You're a community leader and steadfast guidepost that we cherish. Cheers to you and your next chapter!!! https://lnkd.in/gR_TiNFW
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Huge congratulations to our very own Maya Johnson for receiving this distinguished Alumni award from Mitchell Hamline School of Law. We see you Maya!!! And can't imagine a more innovative, powerful way to be leveraging your law degree than leveraging it towards a world where those most impacted by the law have access to legal education and positions of power within the law. Join us in celebrating Maya on October 5th! Information below.
We're excited to announce this year's recipients of our Mitchell Hamline Alumni Awards to Senior Judge Denise Reilly ‘83, Caroline Palmer ‘98 of the Minnesota Department of Health, and Maya Johnson ‘20 of The Legal Revolution and All Square. Incredible people serving their communities in so many important ways, and using their law degrees to work every day for justice. Proud to call these three alums of #MitchellHamline. Please join us for an event on Oct. 5 to celebrate these award recipients. Information below.