John Graham

JOHN GRAHAM is the executive director of Good Samaritan Home, in Greenville, OH, a non-profit social service agency, offering ex-offenders reentry housing and mentoring support since 2001. During this time, he and his staff have helped more than 2,500 men and women reenter the community following incarceration. He is the author of an academic book, Citizen Circle: A Mentoring Model for Rehabilitating Ex-offenders in Darke County, Ohio, that documents the positive impact that mentoring ex-offenders has on the community. Prior to that he was a door-to-door salesman, a children�s home counselor, substitute school teacher, truck driver, fireman, building contractor, minister and a journalist. Sometimes the road home takes many twists and turns.