Knowing that we’re all related and with a servant’s heart, a Psych/Soc B.S. and M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling (Thesis: The Offender’s Reintegrative Needs and the Correctional Response, Analysis and Recommendations), Larry worked 47 years in government service helping people live responsible and fulfilling lives.

His career included: leading an interdisciplinary Public Aid project to reduce ADC recipient employability barriers; 26 years in Adult and Juvenile IDOC facility-based and statewide counseling, program development and management positions (e.g., developed/implemented Menard Reentry Programs; 1 st Dixon Asst. Warden of Programs; managed statewide juvenile classification and placement); 3 years at ICJIA managing Illinois’ DOJ-funded Juvenile Accountability Grant Program; and 15 years developing/supporting public safety with the Chicago Police Department where as Director of Grants Management and with many governmental and community partners created a microenterprise program for returning citizens, and the nation’s only police-led program to improve NFP capacity to better serve communities hard hit by violent crime (230 organizations applied for CPD’s 12-month A Force For Good program, 153 were accepted, and 117 graduated).

In 2002, Larry became deeply involved in supporting statewide use of RJ and served as Conference Manager for the 2003 Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Summit that many credit for “jumpstarting” restorative justice in Illinois - which led to co-founding and leading (for two terms) the Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice (IBARJ) 501(c)3.

Since retiring from CPD in 2019, Larry has served as a Midwest rep on the National Criminal Justice Association Advisory Board, on CPD's 18th District Advisory Committee, as a Beat Meeting Facilitator, and on Hinda Institute’s Advisory Board. He also visited Illinois prisons for Defy Ventures and the John Howard Association, and he’s thrilled to again be championing RJ through his service on the Reimagine Justice Illinois Board!