About the Author

Marvin Mitchell is a US Marine Corps Veteran who has spent three decades as a software developer and activist. He's spent much of his spare time serving with an organization called MAD DADS. This is where Mitchell and dozens of other fathers gathered weekly and protested in front of the neighborhood’s crack houses. In addition to his community activism, he spent the first Sunday of each month traveling to various penal institutions where he served as a prison ministry volunteer.