Barry Diamond was the owner of a successful 30-year-old business consulting company. Barry also started the Chamber of Commerce, was on the board of the Economic Development Commission, the Vice President of his town's Tax Abatement Commission, President of his town's Library Foundation, and the President-Elect of the Better Business Bureau of the State of Connecticut. All that ended when he was convicted of a non-violent white-collar crime and sentenced to 6 years in prison.
One day he was having lunch with Mayors and state representatives, and the next day lunch with murderers, rapists, child molesters, and bank robbers.
Barry is currently an active member of the Reentry Roundtables, HangTime, and operates the reentrysurvivors.com website. For ten years, he has taught the first Reentry Entrepreneurial course (called P.R.I.D.E.) and Financial Literacy Workshops (called FLOW), endorsed by Congressmen, Governors, DOC Commissioners, and Mayors. These FREE training programs are exclusively for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and family or friends of people with a criminal background.
