Tim Dorway serves as the Community Engagement Coordinator and Legislative Advocate for Alpha Emergence Behavioral Services, a non-profit that serves over 1100 clients annually in their mandated treatment and aftercare programming. Over 70% of AEBH’s clients have been incarcerated and are in the process of reintegrating. Prior to Alpha Emergence, he was the Work Readiness Program Manager for REPOWERED, a Saint Paul social enterprise that provides fair chances for people, the planet, and technology. In his role there, Tim provided mentorship, leadership, counseling, and coaching to those reintegrating after serving their time in the criminal legal system. Approximately 90% of REPOWERED’s Work Readiness team members have lived experience inside the razor wire. As a registry-involved person, his focus is working ON the system and helping remove barriers to housing, employment and transportation.Dorway believes that we are all defined by our futures, that no one should be judged by their worst day or their worst decision, and that all people have immense potential and deserve steadfast love, grace, compassion and support. He also believes that our criminal legal system desperately needs reform and that it is based on fear and not reality, rooted in bias and injustice rather than justice for all. Outside of his professional life, Tim is a Community Resolver for We Resolve, Minnesota’s Participatory Defense Hub. The system loves to use the term “time served.” We Resolve works to change that to TIME SAVED. He and his wife Beth live in Waconia and attend Westwood Community Church.Tim holds a Master of Arts in Education from Saint Mary’s University in Minnesota. While incarcerated, he also completed his general paralegal and criminal law paralegal certifications.