Chris Young
Buried Alive Project
Nashville, TN USA
"Your mentality equals your reality."
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
GED
Life & Career Milestones
I've taken a lot of twists and turns
1.
I’m from Clarksville, Tennessee.
2.
My childhood was difficult because of my mom’s drug addiction.
3.
I eventually went into foster care and was taken in by a family friend.
4.
I started selling drugs as a teenager—my anger from my upbringing fueled my ambition to be successful but I just applied it to a goal that unfortunately has severe repercussions.
5.
I was given two life sentences plus five years in prison at 22 years old after a third nonviolent drug-related conviction.
6.
After 10 years in prison, I received presidential clemency and was released.
7.
Upon being released, I incorporated a company with the goal of building an app called Like YOU to provide a community and remove the isolating effects of trauma for people like me.
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I also work as a senior fellow for my lawyer’s organization (Buried Alive Project) which helps to free people serving life sentences for outdated federal drug laws.
