The Chicago Sun-Times ran yesterday a major feature on Back on My Feet and its launch Wednesday in the Windy City.
Ramiro Rodriguez spent 13 years in prison for shooting a truck driver in the chest during a road-rage incident on a highway and then opening fire on police who gave chase.
Behind bars, Rodriguez passed the time jogging — sometimes as much as two miles at a stretch around the prison track.
“It kept me from snapping out,” Rodriguez, 35, explained last week. “In prison, it’s really easy to be angry at a lot of things. It kept my mind at peace.”
Two months after his release, the Humboldt Park man is running again.
Rodriguez is one of 30 people living in Chicago area homeless shelters or transitional housing locations who’ll take part in a program that helps put wayward lives back on track with a pair of running shoes and a commitment. The program’s inaugural run, starting from YMCA-Lawson House, 30 W. Chicago, is Wednesday. MORE
Yesterday, our Founder Anne Mahlum appeared on Fox Chicago and the Times of Northwest Indiana featured our partnership with White Lodging.
It’s an impressive media build up ahead of tomorrow’s launch!
In May, just before our launch in New England, the Boston Globe featured our organization.
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