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Felix Rosado is cofounder of Let’s Circle Up, a restorative justice project created at Graterford State Prison in 2007. While incarcerated, he also co-coordinated the Alternatives to Violence Project and led several other justices, peace-building, and anti-prison initiatives. In 2016, he earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Villanova University.

Felix spent twenty-seven years fighting a death by incarceration sentence (more commonly known as life without parole) from which he was freed in 2022 via executive clemency. Now living in Philadelphia, he serves as Program Manager of Healing Futures, a youth restorative justice diversion program, with the Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project, and teaches at Chestnut Hill College.