Haley Shoaf

Impact team @Launch_Code, @ventureforamerica & @Georgetown alumna -- education, tech, & economic opportunity

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

Hey @united - you cancelled my flight on Tuesday…then when I had to rebook my flight on a different @united flight at my own expense, just to make an important meeting…you proceeded to cancel my flight home??? Now I’ve been on hold for over an hour - can I get help??

[Omar GP @omargp]

We won’t stand back and allow ideological attacks to threaten the health and well-being of our #LGBTQ community. @LambdaLegal and @aclu_mo stand ready to defend the rights and access to essential, effective, and necessary medical care for transgender people in Missouri.

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

@JakeLovesSTL_ @JosieGrillasSTL I teach at Cherokee St. Yoga Collective on Tuesday nights and other days sporadically, love the studio and can’t recommend enough ( https://t.co/cAIJbqBTJ9) -

[FCCCourtWatch @CourtWatchSTL]

“Missing from recent reporting is the centrally important fact that GPS monitoring in St. Louis has skyrocketed in recent years…far too many ppl are under surveillance to the point that no one can keep up. This is a failure to imagine options beyond surveillance or cages.”

[Juvenile Law Center @JuvLaw1975]

Life without parole is the wrong choice for children, who grow and change. Parole review for people sentenced as children should be early and often. We hope lawmakers reject this bill.

[Jessica Hicklin @jessica_hicklin]

As promised, I will begin the process of sharing the lives and journeys of those I knew who would later perish in the Missouri death chamber. Perhaps there are many places to start; but, John seemed most appropriate...

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

Super interesting thread about the history of STEM education in prisons:

[Charlotte West (Ed journo covering prisons) @szarlotka]

A few months ago, I was googling STEM programs in prisons, and came across an ad, posted on eBay of all places. “Could there be a future in computer programming for prisoners?” #higheredinprison #edtech #stem @STEM_OPS @Prof_Andrisse

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

Retweeting, mostly to highlight the article in this thread that points out that the last people to protest trans healthcare this vehemently were the Nazis: https://t.co/7ZlEDodMuo

[Jessica Hicklin @jessica_hicklin]

Last night, my friend and I were talking about some of the horrible allegations that have been levied against the WashU Transgender Healthcare Center, conveniently, as some terrible legislation is making its way through the Missouri legislature... (1/15)

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

A beautiful thread about some incredibly important questions 👇 #deathpenalty

[Jessica Hicklin @jessica_hicklin]

At 16 I went to prison, on a life without parole sentence. I was told by a jury of my peers that at 16, I should die in prison. I had made one mistake, and no matter what the circumstances, it could only mean that I was worthy of death in prison...

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

I have seen a lot of difficult things in over a decade of work with the justice system.
But this is one of the most difficult. I have had the privilege of working with many people who were touched by the work, spirit, and energy of Raheem - he made the world a better place.

[MacArthur Justice Center @MacArthrJustice]

Yesterday, at 6:16 PM, Missouri killed an innocent man.

Above all else, Leonard "Raheem" Taylor was a man of faith whose spirit could not be destroyed by the cruel, unjust system that put him to death.

Our hearts are with Raheem's family as they mourn this devastating loss.

[Jessica Hicklin @jessica_hicklin]

I’m attending https://t.co/mt5I9fcg3s’s event, “Missouri Legislative Advocacy Day #MoInnocence #MoEmpathy #MoJustice” – sign up now to join me! https://t.co/kXfL1GzY2k

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

People look at teaching coding as an end in itself, but as I tell folks often, coding is nothing but a toolkit for solving problems. Technology is not a silver bullet. The real work is empowering people with tools to solve the problems they are already equipped to solved.

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

There are days when the work that we do at @LabsUnlocked feels difficult to articulate...and then there are days where is feels incredibly eloquently simple. This week, at Sing Sing, it was the latter...

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

All left, perhaps for the first time, with the notion that there is a direct path from the ideas they have and the skills they're learning to direct impact in the world.

[Haley Shoaf @HaleyShoaf]

As a direct example of this, while incarcerated @jessica_hicklin built an open source education access and management platform to expand access to prison education...