My Journey started with Treag.  Treag was my scared straight pen pal when I was in foster care.  Treag was serving a life sentence for Manslaughter.  At the age of 16, Treag and his friend entered a convenience store intending only to rob the store.  Unfortunately, during the commission of the robbery, the store owner was killed by Treag's accomplice.  While in prison, Treag had finished school, gone on to obtain a paralegal degree, and was a trusted inmate within the facility for all the work he'd done.  Treag's case fascinated me, and I wanted to know more. Treag was the first adult who told this lost foster child that she could do anything, no matter her circumstances, if she set her mind to it.  I received my PhD in Criminal Justice from St. Leo University, after being told by the foster system I'd have five kids and live on welfare.  I lived my life by the principles Treag taught me - not the foster system.  In some ways, Treag and I were both doing time. He was one of my only friends during that dark period of my life. Because of Treag, at 15 years old, I started studying and never stopped.  I am 51 years old now, and I don't know where Treag is today, but I hope my work is a testament to the good he did in spite of the mistakes he made as a youth.