CHOOSING INTEGRITY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Co - Chair of the Pike County Reentry Coalition
Tony is an attorney specializing in Real Estate (Commercial & Residential) Land Use, Municipal Government, Land Conservation, Estate Planning and Administration and Small Business formation and operation. He is the Solicitor of the Wallenpaupack Area School District and Lackawaxen Township. He has also served as a Pike County Commissioner
Tony has also represented and advised area non-profits. In 2023 Tony became a co-chair of the Pike County Reentry Coalition, where he learned about Choosing Integrity. He became a Director in 2024. He has degrees from Villanova University and Penn State Dickinson Law.
Brian has spent most of his career in the startup space. He's created and run companies in the college, travel, logistics, and marketing industry. He's a native New Yorker who has been coming to Pike County since he was a child to stay at cabins and a property his great grandparents built in the 1950's. In 2019, he left Brooklyn and moved to one of the cabins to live and work remotely.
Gean has been involved in prison reentry programs since 2009. He began by working within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at USP Canaan and in 2015, added the Pike County Correctional Facility (PCCF) to his volunteer work. At Canaan, Gean works within the Religious Services Department teaching faith-based programming. At PCCF, he teaches employment skills to men in the reentry program: Actively Reducing Recidivism Opens Windows (ARROW).
Hampton has been involved in delivering reentry programming since ‘09, first at USP Canaan in Waymart &, for the past 5 years, at Pike County Correctional Facility (PCCF). During which he wrote "Choosing Forgiveness" and "Choosing Integrity," two 12-week courses currently being used at PCCF with male & female inmates. Hampton & Gean were 2 of the original 3 men that incorporated Choosing Integrity as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in PA in 2014.
He was co-chair of the Pike County Reentry Coalition during its first two years, a multi-disciplinary task force seeking to facilitate the successful reintegration of "returning citizens" into the Pike County community.
Hampton's professional background is in Christian ministry, serving as a pastor and denominational official with the Moravian Church in America for 28 years. Since retiring, he has worked as the controller of a graphic design company and as an assistant to the CFO of New Hope Manor (a women's substance abuse rehabilitation center in Barryville, NY.) Prior to retiring in 2019, Hampton had his own bookkeeping and tax preparation business, EHM Associates LLC.
In 2009, Hampton began volunteering at USP Canaan in Waymart, PA in a faith-based program, Second Chance Ministries. He began developing his own curriculum (forgiveness and integrity) for reentry programs at Canaan and later at Pike County Correctional Facility (PCCF). In both facilities, he has taught these programs to several hundred men and women, assisted at PCCF by his wife. He has been twice been recognized as "Volunteer of the Year" at USP Canaan.
Hampton has been married to Virginia Iobst Morgan for 50 years and together they have four children and five grandchildren. They have lived in Pike County for 20 years.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Co - Founder and VP of Prisonology
- DOJ - Federal Bureau of Prison 's Employee
Jack is a retired DOJ-Federal Bureau of Prison's employee with over 30 years of experience working with the incarcerated, attorneys and law enforcement. While employed with the government, he worked in case management capacities for the Correctional Programs Division, which included assignments in the Philadelphia Regional Office and the New York City Community Corrections Office.
Jack participated in national policy writing workgroups, auditing facilities, and trained facility staff throughout the Northeast United States. During his career, he received three national awards and over 30 meritorious performance awards.
Prior to his Federal government service, Jack was a Probation & Parole Officer in the Commonwealth of PA (Pike County). He received an Honorable Discharge from the US Army where he served as a Military Policeman and Stinger Missile Gunner.
Jack's passion is prison reform and he also serves on several non-profit boards. He is a member of the NACDL Corrections Committee and is the chair for an ABA sub-committee on BOP policy. He has testified on Federal prison issues throughout the United States and provided training to Federal Defenders, Judges and the CJA Panel.
Aside from his private business, Jack is the co-founder and VP of Prisonology, LLC and the Director of Case Management Services for FedCURE .
Jack's perspectives have been quoted in the national media including Forbes, The New York Times, and Bloomberg News. He has also appeared in documentaries on CNBC and for the Center for Public Integrity.
After retiring from the Federal Bureau of Prison, Jack became involved with federal prison reform in D.C. but it wasn't until Hampton approached him that he realized the even greater need to support our community and local justice initiatives. His belief is the nature of our rural area presents unique challenges and has not escaped the nation crisis from addiction and the damaged it has caused. Furthermore, our local resources are lacking and fragmented so Jack feels we can fill a void to support individuals as well as the local organizations with a similar focus.
What Jack really appreciated was the pro bono volunteer work the organization has done over the years as opposed to the people he worked with within the DC beltway that are well "paid" reformers with more of an alliance to the organization and politics rather than the individual requiring the resources. He believes this organization can be a positive factor going forward and hopes to help develop various needed programs and services.
Luke's work and passion are largely focused on improving the health and wellness of communities through utilization of education and prevention tools, enhancing access to care, advocacy, collaboration and coalition building. Much of his extensive career in healthcare and human services has been dedicated to leveraging health system and community resources to enrich the lives and overall wellbeing of individuals and families.
As the founder and director of a non-profit organization now in its 23 rd year, and a board member or chairperson of other community and church organizations, Martha is well established in the Pike County community. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science and Microbiology from the University of New Hampshire, an Master of Science in Food Science from Cornell University and an Master of Science in Psychology from Kaplan University.
Marti began her career as a correctional officer in 1992, in Texas and promoted to positions with greater responsibility through the ranks of the Correctional Programs Division. She activated one of the very first Residential Drug Abuse Programs in the federal prison system as a case manager. She was on the team which activated the largest detention center in the Bureau of Prisons in the position of unit manager in 2000.
She worked as a camp administrator, executive assistant and public information official in Otisville, N.Y. She held the position of associate warden at two Federal institutions and warden at a Federal Correctional Institution and a Federal Detention Center. She retired in March 2021, after 29 years of dedicated service. She graduated from the University of Texas in El Paso (UTEP) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice in 1990.
Job Titles:
- Certified Recovery Specialist
Sharon has been Choosing Integrity's lead provider of reentry programming at Pike County Correctional Facility since September 2022. She leads weekly peer support groups for men and women at the correctional facility and co-leads Choosing Integrity's weekly Smart Recovery meeting at its office in Milford. Sharon has a Master's degree in Occupational Therapy and has worked in an inpatient alcohol treatment center.
Steve not only serves on the Board of Directors of Choosing Integrity, Inc, he is also the President of the United Way of Pike County and an Advisory Council member of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Berks, Pike & Wayne Counties. He earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1979 from the University of Miami School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and History in 1974 from the Pennsylvania State University.
Attracted to Choosing Integrity's mission, Tara became a volunteer in 2021, bringing her strengths and expertise in the areas of fundraising, administrative and organizational support to the organization. She has been involved in planning and organizing fundraising events, all the while becoming passionate about helping Choosing Integrity achieve its important goal of promoting the successful reentry of returning citizens.