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Keynote: Brandon McGee ties mentorship, housing and restorative justice to fatherhood
Summary
Brandon McGee urged fathers and communities to use mentorship to close opportunity gaps, linked housing stability and reentry supports to stronger family outcomes, and described investing cannabis tax revenue as restorative justice for communities harmed by mass incarceration.
Brandon McGee, chief executive of the Social Equity Council, delivered a keynote tracing how mentorship and structural policy shape fathers' capacity to parent. McGee recounted his upbringing in Hartford's North End, his participation in Project Concern/Open Choice, and how access to better-resourced schools shaped opportunity.
McGee cited a local statistic — "over 38% of households in Hartford County…
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