Subject: For Meghan and Gabe. Invitation to TEDxSanQuentin "Life Revealed" Friday, Jan 22, 2016
From: Delia Cohen <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:20:04 -0800

Dear John,

Great to see you last night!

Hope you don't mind that I gave Megan a few letters to POTUS, FLOTUS and
HRC from some incarcerated colleagues at San Quentin. Would love you to
pass them along if you think appropriate.

And could you please forward this invite to Megan and Gabe? I'd also love
Megan to come with me some Thursday night to attend Wall Street's financial
literacy class. (He's one of the TEDxSanQuentin speakers.)

http://www.npr.org/investment-guru-teaches-financial-literacy-while-serving-life-sentence
<http://www.npr.org/2015/03/21/393556633/investment-guru-teaches-financial-literacy-while-serving-life-sentence>

Oh, and I invited Wally Maguire to come last night but he got stuck in the
city. He made me promise to say hi from him but I forgot...

Go win this campaign!

And please give Mary my best.

-Delia

Delia Cohen
Founder & Vision Architect
Extraordinary Projects
332 Redwood Avenue
Corte Madera, CA 94925
646.220.2780

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Delia Cohen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:18 PM
Subject: Invitation to TEDxSanQuentin "Life Revealed" Friday, Jan 22, 2016
To: [email-masked]

Dear John, Megan and Gabe--

The incarcerated TEDxSanQuentin team and I are delighted to invite you to
TEDxSanQuentin <http://www.tedxsanquentin.org>, Friday,  January 22, 2016,
9am to 2:30 pm.

Please take a look at this 4-minute promo our incarcerated marketing team
wrote, directed, shot and edited--they did a fantastic job!

https://www.youtube.com/TEDxSanQuentin promo
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY60jguBmR0>

This is going to be an unbelievable event. As Bryan Stevenson says, it's
all about proximity. If you can attend, I'll need the following info asap:

Full legal name as it appears on your driver's license
Driver's license number and state that issued it
Date of birth
SSN

NOTE: This event is by invitation only. All invitations are
non-transferable without prior approval.
_________________________________________________________________________________
The United States accounts for 5% of the world's population, yet
incarcerates a staggering 25% of the world's prisoners with a
disproportionate number of black men and boys behind bars. Roughly 90% of
these 2.2 million prisoners--and another 7 million out on probation or
parole--will return to society and become our neighbors. If we want healthy
and safe communities, we must pay attention to and influence what is
happening in our prisons.

Historically, prison has been a place of separation and punishment. Influential
community members and public policy shapers don't know how to get involved
with a closed and nearly impenetrable criminal justice system.

The goal of TEDxSanQuentin <http://www.tedxsanquentin.org/> is to bridge
the divide between society and prisoners by inviting community influencers
directly into prison to interact with prisoners in a powerful day of "ideas
worth spreading" and by bringing prisoners' voices to a global audience.

We believe that when we bring together correctional staff, prisoners,
victims, law enforcement, innovative thinkers, and influential people from
all walks of life, we will be better able to create solutions to our
nation's failed policy of mass incarceration.
*Outside speakers*:

Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
<http://www.cfr.org/staff/b292>; former U.S. Treasury Secretary

Neil Barsky, Founder and Chairman, The Marshall Project
<https://www.themarshallproject.org/staff/neil-barsky>

Robert Barton, Inspector General, State of California
<http://www.oig.ca.gov/>

Dionne Wilson, Board of Directors, Insight Prison Project
<http://www.insightprisonproject.org/board-of-directors.html>

Pete Worden, Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation
<http://spacenews.com/former-nasa-center-director-to-chair-private-seti-effort/>

I*ncarcerated speakers and performers:*

Ronald Self, Founder, Veterans Healing Veterans
<http://www.veteranshealingveteransfromtheinsideout.org/index.html>

Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll, The Oracle of San Quentin State Prison hailed
as stock-picking guru
<http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/12/05/the-oracle-of-san-quentin-state-prison-inmate-hailed-as-stock-picking-guru-curtis-carroll-stock-market-money/>

David Jassy, grammy-nominated artist and songwriter
<http://kalw.org/post/one-night-gone-wrong-1>

Shakespeare at San Quentin
<http://marinshakespeare.org/shakespeare-at-san-quentin/>

and much more!

Attendance is by invitation only and requires pre-clearance by the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

For more information and/or any questions, please contact
[email-masked].

Hope you can make it!

-Delia

Delia Cohen
Founder & Vision Architect
Extraordinary Projects
332 Redwood Avenue
Corte Madera, CA 94925
646.220.2780