Since 1986 Robin Sohnen founder of Each One Reach One has been a mentor to young people through Soka Gakkai International, an organization dedicated to the development of peace, culture and education. In 1998 Robin decided to start a non-profit organization to address the escalating rate of incarcerating youth, especially youth of color by exploring theater-based strategies that could effectively break the cycle of violence and divert youth from the adult prison system. Robin is a member of the Skyline College Administration of Justice Advisory Committee and received the 1999 National Council on Crime Delinquency New American Community Award for EORO’s creative efforts to reduce crime. She is Commissioner for the Commission on Status of Women of San Mateo County.
EORO was founded in 1997, as an advocacy organization to divert incarcerated youth and youth on probation from a life in prison. Over the past decade, they have evolved into a unique non-profit that organizes the community to participate in diversion programs serving detained youth. The mentor-based program model engages over 100 community members annually as individual mentors, tutors, actors and painters while promoting cooperation and collaboration among the juvenile justice systems various components.
Each One Reach One (EORO) believes that young people have the right to learn from the choices that landed them in a lock down facility, and when given the opportunity and encouragement that they will take personal responsibility for building a better future for themselves.
In 2011, the YGCIC-EORO inside out collaborative programming received Outstanding Workforce Partnership Award from the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
