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Terrance Coffie; Public Speaker, Criminal Justice Reform Advocate, Reentry Consultant.
Terrance Coffie is a 2017 M.S.W, and 2016 B.S.W. graduate of New York University. In 2017 he was named the Alex Rosen NASW NYC-NYU Student of the Year, as well as the 2017 Citizens Against Recidivism, Educator of the Year. Terrance currently is a Professor at New York University teaching Forensic Justice in Problem Solving Courts.
As a social justice advocate, youth activist, and proponent for educational and criminal justice reform, Terrance has committed himself to being a change agent by way of higher education.
Terrance at Otisville Correctional Facility
Terrance Coffie has spent more than half of his adult life in correctional institutions. After years of selling drugs, violence and incarceration , it would be his last charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and facing a 20 year prison sentence, where he would begin a journey leading him from a life of crime, substance abuse and imprisonment to finding not only his purpose and mission in life, but also academic excellence at one of the most prestigious institutions in the world, New York University. From inmate E-604958 Terrance would graduate as NYU's 2017 NASW Student of The Year, but along the way he would achieve and gain so much more...
Hear his remarkable inspiring journey of determination, resilience and fortitude only as he can share, through his eyes!
"By age 39, I had become every negative stereotype used to describe young black men in this country; thug, menace, high-risk, dead beat, super- predator, a lost cause. The only thing I had not done was be killed.”
Published Author
As a contributing author to Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens, Terrance has shared the importance of post-secondary educational opportunities for incarcerated citizens. He also shared his views in several op-eds featured in USA Today.
“Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution."
