Our Story
Welcome to Light After Life, where we believe in a movement beyond bars. Discover our journey, our mission, and what makes us different. We are based in Florida, United States, and dedicated to reform and rehabilitation that heals.
Meet Tara, Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer
Tara is a justice advocate and the Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder of Light After Life, where her work focuses on strengthening the connection between community voices and organized advocacy to address the long-term impacts of incarceration.
Her advocacy is shaped by lived experience. After losing her best friend to suicide and navigating years of barriers connected to incarceration, Tara became committed to addressing gaps in reentry, accountability, and support that leave individuals and families carrying lasting harm. That path led her inside the correctional system, where she witnessed firsthand the human cost of extreme punishment and the need for reform grounded in dignity and restoration.
In her role at Light After Life, Tara works closely with families and community partners to support reentry, healing, and accountability after harm.
In addition to her work with Light After Life, Tara provides non-legal advocacy support, systems navigation, and writing for individuals and families impacted by incarceration through Ipomoea Purpurea LLC. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida Justice Institute and writes on accountability, harm, and restoration through lived experience, including in her book When Mercy Met Me.
Tara’s work focuses on:
Reentry & Family Impact, Restorative Justice, Extreme Sentencing, Faith-Based Advocacy, Psychology & Law, and Systems Reform.
Our Vision
Light After Life aims to create a world where, together, we amplify the voices of families, survivors, and advocates to foster accountability that heals and justice that restores.
Change begins when we believe redemption is possible.
Meet Christina, Co-Founder and Head of Policy & Public Affairs
Drawing on her background in criminal law advocacy, she is here to uncover the forgotten and silent voices behind every loved one in Florida's incarceration system and to create restorative legislative solutions to heal and reform the state.
As a victim survivor of dating violence, Christina took her traumatic life-altering tragedy to shape future court decisions that promote correction and rehabilitation of people who made an adverse decision that has them intertwined in the criminal system, backed by science and research.
Christina has experienced firsthand that policies and decisions motivated by revenge and punishment don't correct or deter future crimes; instead, since 95% of incarcerated individuals will be released, it only pauses crime temporarily.
Christina's work focuses on:
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Litigation/Legal Abuse
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Criminal Law
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Prison Reform
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Legislation
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Domestic Violence for Victims/Survivors, &
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Restorative Justice.