Who We Are

• Founder and Executive Director, William Monroe Palmer II, was released not knowing who, if anyone, would meet him at the prison gates after 31 years and 22 days. He was dropped off at 111 Taylor Street, GEO, a private prison for profit corperation. He felt jailed, provoked by his parole officers and eargerness to share his lived exprience. The PACE program  at USF shared student space for his spoken word performance in Found Suitable. His first job came from a former incarcerated, allowed him to flurish until his purpose presented problems for the parole office. From a lack of protection, resouces and guidance for his unique requirements for youth offenders living life for the first time as adults. Thus, Life After Next was created. He's become a piercing bright star as an advocate for the removal and replacement of rehabilitation system with Community Care Centers and Community Affairs Board.

• Once Bille Palmer, a 17-year-old high school dropout, in 1988, was convicted as an adult and sentenced to natural life for kidnap robbery. In 2015-2019, In re William Palmer (1,2&3)  created a landmark ruling enhancing SB260 & 261, Youth Offender Parole regulation, establishing freedom for five thousands plus ex-prisoners, having the right to bring constitutional excessive punishment to the courts and ultimately creating youth offender parole hearings without adult punitive conditions.  Since 2019, he has been appointed to the San Francisco Reentry Council on the Sentencing Commission; co-chair of the Legislation, Policies, and Practices Subcommittee; and he now presides over the San Francisco Sheriff's Department Oversight Board (SDOB) as President William Palmer.

• The Artivist blending self-taught multi-media artistry with activism for oppressed people. The former Editor in Chief of the Bay View newspaper can be heard at the Melo Melo Kava Bar or the Black Panther Museum in Oakland performing spoken word from his Love Poetica composition. Or MC’n Black August for the AAACC community or at the CommonWealth Club as a member of The Adachi Project. He's the CEO of Studio 3 Third, promoting new and hot artistry in the Bay and beyond. An aspiring promoter, podcast host and radio DJ on Café Revolution at KPOO 89.5 FM San Francisco “The Poor People’s Radio.” “De-colonizing the narrative means un-incorporating the Sound of Love and Life from corporate corruption." Soul Brotha 9

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