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Nancy Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. She was editor and later publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal, and then created a not-for-profit online news outlet for the four million wheelchair users in the U.S. As an award-winning journalist, Nancy uses her talents to promote efforts to fight the causes of overall poverty throughout our area while working to spread the specific message that second chance employment is lowering recidivism, changing lives, and raising families out of poverty.
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November 21, 2025
"...my first Thanksgiving in custody was better than the ones before it, when I'd been addicted to heroin and selling drugs to feed my habit. Back then, most of my holidays were a druggy blur. This is what I think of when I think of redemption."
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May 16, 2017
Most of us have never talked to a gang member. We probably have never seen a gang member unless he was on the nightly news. But when DeWayne Fincher, former self-professed gangbanger came up to talk, the audience was silent. Dreadlocks falling from his young head, he mesmerized everyone with his story of redemption...
