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Joe Robinson has been teaching personal finance and entrepreneurship to incarcerated men since 1995. He is a certified instructor of Inmates Teaching Entrepreneurship & Mentoring (ITEM), a program he founded with Steve Mariotti, founder and president of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). ITEM trains prison inmates to teach their children and fellow incarcerated men the basics of business ownership.
Joe tapped into the power of his own entrepreneurial gifts after he was incarcerated in 1992 for a crime that had its roots in the illegal drug business he operated. His passion for legitimate business was born behind prison walls, as he read the business pages of newspapers that other prisoners threw away. He traded cigarettes for books in order to build his own library and eventually became the authoritative adviser for fellow incarcerated men seeking business and financial guidance. And he's convinced current and former Wall Street executives to go inside prison to share their knowledge about entrepreneurship. Among them have been John C. Whitehead, a former Goldman Sachs co-chairman and Deputy Secretary of State of the United States, and Steve Mariotti, founder and president of the widely acclaimed National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Steve believes so deeply in Joe Robinson's work and message that he wrote the foreword for “Think Outside the Cell.”
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