Social Change Advocate Tyrone Muhammad, is an author, mentor, and entrepreneur. 

Tyrone knows first-hand how incarceration affects individuals, families, and communities. While serving twenty years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, he taught self-development programs aimed at reducing recidivism, such as behavior modification, social and emotional training, critical thinking, job interviewing skills, budgeting, financing, and resume writing.

Tyrone co-founded the Education Justice Project (EJP) with the University of Illinois Danville where students earned bachelor’s degrees. Tyrone holds degrees in basic and advanced automotive technology, horticulture, custodial maintenance, and cosmetology.

 After his release, Tyrone continued working with ex-offenders and founded ECCSC, Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, an organization committed to helping ex-offenders become productive members of society. He believes that ex-offenders play a key role in reducing crime in inner-city neighborhoods.

His book, Men on the Inside, has been a resource for law, sociology, and criminology college curriculums. His radio show, “The Frontline Show” on intellectualradio.com, supplements his works as an author by connecting to the community in real-time.

Tyrone epitomizes productive re-entry into society through his many entrepreneurial endeavors, including creating companies within the Cannabis Industry, security, renovation & property maintenance, staffing leading to viable employment, and providing ex-cons with the tools to do the same. 

His tenacity to go into neighborhood trenches and trap houses alike, without judgment, separates him from other Social Change Advocates working towards similar goals.