Speakers
Jenn Luther
Tom Corwin
Tony Lowden
Alisha Shoates James
Parallel Workshops
During this interactive break-out sessions we will continue the conversation on the evolution of emerging technology and their role in the transformation of Community Corrections. A panel of experts from the technology sector will elaborate on questions such as:
Tony Lowden is pastor former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, and he is a chaplain for the Secret Service in Southwest Georgia. He was appointed by the White House in 2019 as Executive Director of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry.
Lowden has more than 20 years of experience on the local, state, and national levels, assisting criminal justice-involved individuals with opportunities for successful outcomes. In his role, He provided leadership and vision for the continuous expansion of interactive reintegration services to not only prepare incarcerated youths and adults for life after release, but for them to successfully reintegrate into and remain in their communities as contributing members of society.
Lowden was appointed by Governor Nathan Deal in 2012 to the State Charter School Commissioner where he still serves today. After serving as project coordinator for the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, Lowden served as the Director of Faith and Justice Initiative for the governor’s office of Transition Support and Reentry.
Reared in North Philadelphia in a single-parent home, Lowden double majored in Economics and Government at the University of Southern California while on an athletic scholarship and earned his Master of Divinity at NEO Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Lowden was founder and executive director of STONE Academy, an after-school enrichment program for at-risk children in the Macon Bibb County area and has served in leadership capacities in numerous civic organizations in Middle Georgia.
He is the Vice President of Reintegration & Community Engagement at ViaPath Technologies which provides advanced communications and management solutions that facilitate meaningful connections, provide educational opportunities, and enable successful reentry for 1.6 million incarcerated individuals.
He is a 2011 graduate of Leadership Georgia, a 2014 graduate of the inaugural class of the Bailey-Sullivan Leadership Institute of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEP) and a member of American Enterprise Institute (ARI) Leadership Network Fall 2016 class. Lowden and his wife, G. Pilar Lowden, have one daughter.